Comment Meta

[amaresu]

Femslash Mini Meta fest was an utter fail this year. And I'm still not in a place where I could do it, so I purpose Comment Meta. And let's have it cover all things female and fannish. However you define those.

How it works

1. Post a meta topic in a top level comment. Use the subject line for the meta subject and expand as you want in the body of the comment. Or don't.

2. Repeat Step 1 for as many meta ideas as you have.

3. Comment on other meta topics.


It's kinda like a kink meme, only with meta. Feel free to browse the mini meta tag for ideas.

This is meant to be about as low pressure as it comes. Feel free to write on your own journal/Tumblr/blog and link back here. Respond with as little or as much as you want. This post will remain open indefinitely, so please track it if that makes things easier for you.

Comments

Re: Word Choices in Smut

[carmarthen]

I've recently embraced 'prick' (my current fandom is 19th century), and also 'cunny' because it's the least awful historical euphemism, imo (and yes, it's related to rabbits, but less obviously than 'pussy' to cats, imo). I use 'cunt' sometimes depending on time period and POV despite not really liking it much.

In general I...really don't like the vast majority of non-clinical terms for female genitalia, and as with male genitalia there are plenty of terms I'll use in conversation but dislike in porn (dick and pussy at the top of the list). Some of the clinical terms I can deal with but they aren't always appropriate (especially for historical porn about young, inexperienced women who probably do not have a vast vocabulary of anatomical terms). The 19th century list of slang terms for the clitoris that I found made me laugh until I cried--'pearl' was definitely the least awful on the list, followed by 'button'.

This makes writing porn about women (especially f/f) really frustratingly challenging for me. :-/