early one morning in the late 2040s

The bad news is, I'm blocked on Close. In not-so-bad news, Lex hit me with one flashback and one kitten-execution for Taffy, my SV magnum opus; but I doubt I'll put up any excerpts from it until it's much nearer completion, if at all. In better news, I had been blocked altogether, and letting Lex get his inner sappy romantic out seems to have broken that. The good news is, I had another fic visitation at the border of sleep, and got up and typed it out. I'm finding it odd that all these things seem to come three paragraphs at a time.

Anyway, here's the latest. Still on the happyfic side, but not as unrelievedly sugary.

( early one morning in the late 2040s )

Because I hate hunting back through page after page for that one little fic snippet, too: a link to all my LJ ficlets.

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I'm not sure why this even needs to be said. And it's not just a matter of newcomers to slash fandom being unaware of Minotaur's sex tips for slash writers. The prime rules of writing are "show, don't tell" and "write what you know," right?

So if you're going to write a full-blown, graphic m/m sex scene, please do a bare minimum of research, and use common sense. Have you ever performed analingus? (Don't look at me like that; everybody has one, as the saying goes.) Guess what, you don't have to have actually done it to realise that if you taste anything down there, you hope it's freshly-washed skin.

You really, truly, honestly do not have to include penetrative anal sex in your slash fiction. Write what you know comes into play here; everybody has hands and mouths, too. And if you think buggery is so bloody cool and want to write about it, then take one for the team so you can have half a clue what it's like.

I realise there are lots of slash writers who are not going to care for those choices. Hey, I'm not holding a gun to anybody's head, this is just an exasperated rant. (You never know until you try it, though...) But here are some tips for those who insist on writing what they don't know:

The burn is a myth overused and cliched to the point that it's lost descriptive meaning. Apparently I just have an odd arse.

Stretching is not strictly necessary. (Looked in the toilet lately?)

Lube of some kind is always necessary, or it's uncomfortable for both of them.

If the sphincter spasms and he pushes in anyway, there's pain if you're lucky and tearing if you're not. Trust me, tearing is not sexy or fun or just part of anal sex.

The same laws of anatomy and physics that apply to m/f sex apply to m/m sex too.