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?

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[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.)