Fanfic = Fantasy

[switch842]

I enjoy reading fanficrants. It's kinda fun to have a place to get the crap you find in fic of your chest with other folks who sympathize with you. However, I've noticed recently this trend of rants where people are like "Why does every guy have the perfect dick? Why is the sex always great? Why is there no bad sex?" And I realized, it's because no one wants to read about Ianto actually have a puny little 4 inch dick and Jack not being able to get it up. Seriously. Does anyone want to read that? No. Fanfic is a fantasy. And when I fantasize, everything is always great & perfect cos that's what fantasies are. Unless the fic is some great epic that goes into every detail of their entire life, I don't want to read about the times where Daniel is too tired and he can't get it up for Jack. Perspective people, please.

Comments

[wraith816.livejournal.com]

Jack not being able to get it up. Seriously. Does anyone want to read that?

Also, if I ever read that in a fic and there weren't extenuating circumstances, I'd be crying OOC. Jack Harkness always gets it up. *snerk*

[jillybiehn.livejournal.com]

I dunno, some of my favorite parts of THING were the whole performance anxiety bit, on BOTH parts. :D

[erin-anderson.livejournal.com]

I think it just depends on the context of the fic. Like Jilly said above, some of the best parts of the diary were the performance anxiety bits. But that was supposed to be have a humor type slant to it. So I think it's all in context. If you want to ready angsty depressing stuff then by all means have that sorta stuff happen. But the majority of fan fic is for fantasies. And most of our fantasies don't tend towards the depressing side IMO.

[hatusu.livejournal.com]

...but then, where is the suspense? :-D

[aizjanika.livejournal.com]

Personally, I don't like to read too much realistic detail. If the story is about two guys coming together who fumble around a little at first and work it out, I could enjoy that, but I don't want too many details.

I don't even think everything and everyone has to be perfect, but I do prefer the fantasy and the fun and the hotness a lot more than I want to read about people having bad sex. *G* I don't read fanfic for good stories, and I don't read fanfic to read realistic accounts of anything. :-)