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![[info]](https://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} stewardess wroteon February 27th, 2008 at 02:04 am |
The comments don't seem polarized, since they cover a lot of ground: hot, funny, unsettling, and wrong. :)
I assume the folks who find it hot have the canon "John may be apirate wily rule-breaker but he's still a good man" in their heads while reading, and his actions in the story aren't enough to disrupt it for them.
The problem with warnings is that I cannot anticipate what a reader brings with them, and the only way to guarantee a painless read is to put so much in the summary everyone is spoiled. For instance, I could have summarized the story as, "John ignores Rodney's safeword, and holds a knife to his throat, but don't worry, the ending is fluffy." There was a huge multi-fandom debate on fic warnings in December 2006 you may find interesting. See metafandom during that time period.
Feedback such as "what John does here is not the John I know and love!" is helpful. I may not agree with it, but it makes sense. My view of John as a combat veteran who is more comfortable using a physical act (including a violent one) than words to get his point across is not going to be shared by everyone. But criticism that a dom ignoring a sub's safeword is a bad thing in general implies my story is magic and can make it happen in reality, causing a real person harm. That does not make sense to me.
One moment selected as "abusive" was Rodney kissing the knife. A submissive kissing a token of submission, such as a collar, is a pretty mundane bdsm ritual, though. Criticism of wolfshark's story also focused on something very common, a dom calling a submissive a slut. I assumed the prompt's wording, "John or Rodney brings the other down hard using either heavy pain or heavy humiliation" was sufficient to get across they wouldn't be tickling each other with feathers (though for me that would be about the worst thing ever). But what "bring down hard" and "heavy pain" means to me (or Telesilla) and what it means to everyone else is not going to be the same thing. There is nothing I can do about that; I cannot guarantee someone won't be offended.
I assume the folks who find it hot have the canon "John may be a
The problem with warnings is that I cannot anticipate what a reader brings with them, and the only way to guarantee a painless read is to put so much in the summary everyone is spoiled. For instance, I could have summarized the story as, "John ignores Rodney's safeword, and holds a knife to his throat, but don't worry, the ending is fluffy." There was a huge multi-fandom debate on fic warnings in December 2006 you may find interesting. See metafandom during that time period.
Feedback such as "what John does here is not the John I know and love!" is helpful. I may not agree with it, but it makes sense. My view of John as a combat veteran who is more comfortable using a physical act (including a violent one) than words to get his point across is not going to be shared by everyone. But criticism that a dom ignoring a sub's safeword is a bad thing in general implies my story is magic and can make it happen in reality, causing a real person harm. That does not make sense to me.
One moment selected as "abusive" was Rodney kissing the knife. A submissive kissing a token of submission, such as a collar, is a pretty mundane bdsm ritual, though. Criticism of wolfshark's story also focused on something very common, a dom calling a submissive a slut. I assumed the prompt's wording, "John or Rodney brings the other down hard using either heavy pain or heavy humiliation" was sufficient to get across they wouldn't be tickling each other with feathers (though for me that would be about the worst thing ever). But what "bring down hard" and "heavy pain" means to me (or Telesilla) and what it means to everyone else is not going to be the same thing. There is nothing I can do about that; I cannot guarantee someone won't be offended.
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