Something I thought might be worth mentioning

[donnaimmaculata]

I consider fanfiction, to a great degree, as a platform that allows me to lust after some man I fancy. Therefore, I prefer to read fics that are not written from that man's PoV. I want see him through the eyes of others, because, in order to find someone fanciable, I musn't know what's going on inside their heads. I want the mystery. I want to remain an outsider. I want the distance.

Does that make sense to anyone else beside myself?

Comments

[madamemim.livejournal.com]

I think a lot of fanficcers feel that way.
Sometimes it is so obvious you can practically see that pool of drool on the writer´s keyboard. *g*
For me, this kind of fic that revels in the physical beauty of one or both parts of a pairing is almost a genre by itself. I call it drool-fic.
You know, these stories that make you smile indulgently and think "Have it bad, eh?" :-)

By sheer coincidence I came upon such a story shortly after I read your entry, a Highlander rec on crack_van, an AU featuring Duncan McLeod as a waterhorse, a shapeshifter who takes the form of a magnificent stallion (oh, subtle!) one moment and turns into a gorgeous human male the next - a gloriously naked male, I should add.
Should this in any way remind you of Pratchett´s Greebo, don´t worry: no similarity whatsoever!
The moment when Methos turns and sees the creature in its human form for the first time is drool-fic par excellence!
Not that I dislike it, I quite enjoy it once in a while, but as I said: it makes me smile a bit. :-)
It´s the female equivalent to a bunch of males admiring Pamela Anderson´s boobs. Only women do it so much more elegantly and inventively than the average male.
That´s another reason why I love fanfic!

[donnaimmaculata.livejournal.com]

I call it drool-fic.

Excellent name!

I know I wrote Genesis to shamelessly drool over Remus. Blatant admiration can be quite entertaining.

But maybe I should elaborate: I'm not necessarily after detailed descriptions of pretty body parts (though this, too, can be a good thing). What I want is to see the character I'm mainly interested in through the eyes on an outsider. I don't want to know what the character thinks and feels, I want to have to guess. That's the way to keep my interest. (In fanfic as well as in RL, if it comes to that.)