fanfic peeve of the week

[buggery]

Because I'm finding myself with plenty enough to gripe about at least once a week.

It's in the details, people:

Lex's desk is glass, not wood; it has metal legs and no drawers; it's really more of a table. The chair behind it is neither padded nor leather. These things are clearly visible in numerous episodes.

Or is there another show people are watching that I've missed out on? From the number of stories in which Lex swivels his leather desk chair for a blowjob, or Clark fetches lube out of the desk drawer, or someone gets bent over his heavy wood desk and grips the sides of it, I'm starting to wonder.

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[happyminion.livejournal.com]

I think this is hiatus fever. Or I'm hoping it is, and that people aren't really going to stay in this kind of mood once the new season starts up in September. I mean, there are always going to be details that irk us in stories. Clark's eye color will never suit everyone and apparently neither will the furniture at the castle or whether or not it is a castle.

I really can't help but get annoyed by these kinds of comments. If I take the time to write a story that's good in characterization and to share it with the fandom at large, and the story itself works, then why on earth would someone pick it apart based on the scenery and props? It's just...frustrating. And luckily, Smallville has a huge fan base right now and someone is always submitting, or I think this kind of attitude would cause a resounding silence by way of story submissions.

Either that, or the good writers would just shrug and smirk and write their lube-in-the-wooden-desk-drawer-for-the-fuck-in-the-leather-chair stories and let you delete at will while the rest of us were happy campers.

Gah, and as for watching a different show that you're missing out on...the Smallville that I watch doesn't have Clark and Lex as lovers, but as a writer of slash, I take a few liberties with what I actually see on air.

Of course this entire point is moot if we are now considering props as canon.

[lexcorp-hope.livejournal.com]

I don't dispute what the desk is, but I do dispute the fact that it says anything about Lex. He's mentioned more than once in the canon that the castle is his father's, the furnishings are his father's, and he really doesn't care what happens to them. Lex's cars, Lex's Ty Nant bottles, Lex's clothes, those are all things he's chosen for himself. We haven't seen his bedroom yet, and that's the one room in the manor that I'd expect to actually reflect Lex's tastes. The only thing that desk and the ugly couch tell us is that Lionel (or Lillian, or the designer they chose) has chaotic, modernist tastes.

[evil-man.livejournal.com]

I think another important issue here is to consider just for a moment what you'd be thinking whilst reading a fic where Lex fucks Clark/Whitney/Chloe/the milkmen on his glass desk.

I don't know about you but I'd be seriously worried about that thing breaking and whilst Clark wouldn't be hurt can you imagine explaining *that* trip to the emergency room ???

Not that I always look at inanimate objects and consider what it would be like to have Lex fucking on them. I swear I don't... I think that about animate objects too *eg*

As perpetrator of said heinous crimes, fic-related not desk-fucking related, although... well this isn't the place for those ramblings, I tend to view some details as not entirely important in the overall scheme of things. It's very easy to lose sight of what's important when wondering about Lex's office furnishings, or whether the castle is in fact a castle at all...

IMO.

Maybe I need to add an inanimate-objects disclaimer on anything I write. Warning, some of the furniture is AU and may or may not have appeared in Smallville.

An extreme example I know but I think it illustrates the point I’m attempting to make. To me this is more a matter of expediency than a matter of laziness. Having Lex take lube from a drawer is certainly preferable to having it magically appear?

Or maybe I need to spend more time focusing on what’s important ???