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donnaimmaculataVery, very occasionally, I read RPS. Today, it's Monty Python slash *hangs head in shame*.
Shoot me now.
Anyway. I've just been skimming through some porny fics, and have found two reccuring motifs that I find highly annoying:
First, the authors' insistence, that twentysomething Arts students would have "calloused fingers". "He pushed his long, calloused fingers inside..." "He wrapped his long, calloused fingers around..." etc. etc. The "long", I am fine with. But if I know something about twentysomething Arts students - and I do - their hands tend to be girlishly, ridiculously soft. Seriously, there are plenty of other characteristics you might notice about their fingers before encountering the callousness.
Second, the lube. This is something that's been always putting me off in Life on Mars fics, too: The 1960s/1970s were the years before AIDS (and hence the omnipresence of condoms) and the general public's liberal attutide towards homosexuality (and hence the omnipresence of vendors distributing products to aid the act of sodomy and other rather more risqué practices) had caught on. If you were after some sodomy action, vaseline was the way to go.
And thus, my short-lived fling with Monty Python slash has run its course before it even began.
Shoot me now.
Anyway. I've just been skimming through some porny fics, and have found two reccuring motifs that I find highly annoying:
First, the authors' insistence, that twentysomething Arts students would have "calloused fingers". "He pushed his long, calloused fingers inside..." "He wrapped his long, calloused fingers around..." etc. etc. The "long", I am fine with. But if I know something about twentysomething Arts students - and I do - their hands tend to be girlishly, ridiculously soft. Seriously, there are plenty of other characteristics you might notice about their fingers before encountering the callousness.
Second, the lube. This is something that's been always putting me off in Life on Mars fics, too: The 1960s/1970s were the years before AIDS (and hence the omnipresence of condoms) and the general public's liberal attutide towards homosexuality (and hence the omnipresence of vendors distributing products to aid the act of sodomy and other rather more risqué practices) had caught on. If you were after some sodomy action, vaseline was the way to go.
And thus, my short-lived fling with Monty Python slash has run its course before it even began.
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Date: 2009-12-29 07:29 am (UTC)Well, that's one thing to be said for RPS. XD
It would really depend on the particular art and the art school - at least, if you're talking visual arts. Bauhaus-based programs and disciplines are pretty much guaranteed to rip your hands to hell.
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Date: 2009-12-29 11:52 am (UTC)By "arts" I didn't mean "applied arts", but "humanities", in this case English, history etc.. The most strenuous activity your hands are forced to perform is propping your head up in class so that it won't crash on the table and wake everybody up!
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Date: 2009-12-30 07:54 am (UTC)