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Are you satisfied with your writing? What is it about? How often do you write? Do you dream of people finding out about it eventually?

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[–] Apytele@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I mostly write porn.

One story is years old and it's an illithid that runs away from the commune with a captive they couldn't quite make into a thrall. I've hit a wall with that one because they've run away to the drow now and I suck at political intrigue. I think I need to go back and delete even a few of the chapters on ao3. I've gone back and forth over the years as to whether or not to keep the sex scene but I've got it mostly written the story just isn't there yet.

One is a femdom alternate reality where society has just always been matriarchal. Instead of having women who act more masculine and beat men and make them crawl in the floor and eat shit while wearing panties or whatever it's just a world where all the same stereotypes exist they're just exaggerated in a way that flatters women more than men. Like "boys will be boys" is an idea used to keep men out of politics and academia instead of an excuse for bad behavior. The big thing examined is how lower class men are considered disposable for the purposes of dangerous jobs.

I'm currently working on a fanfiction for the consentacle card game about a first contact delegation where the aliens are like "ok so before we establish an embassy we need to figure out how to have safe sex because we know it's gonna happen" and the humans are like wait so the rest of the universe is also horny all the time? And they're like OBVIOUSLY.

I also half finished a Blake's 7 fic before my fascination with the show died back and now I'm worried I wouldn't be able to finish it with the same faithfulness to the source material that made it so appealing to readers to begin with.