-When everyone cheers because they weren’t killed by the trash compacter but C-3PO thinks they are dying
-tiny Boba Fett going “Get him, Dad! Get Him!” because he supports his violent bounty hunter father like any good son should
-Padme Amidala continuously out dressing everyone
-Rey’s desert flowers, pilot doll, Rebel helmet, and home made from a rusty AT-AT
-Shmi Skywalker nicknaming Anakin “Ani”
-#livinglegend Sabine Wren pausing her mission in an abandoned, creepy Republic base to spray paint her starbird tag on the walls even though no one will probably ever see it
-Clones giving their brothers names because the Republic only gave them numbers
-On that note, Poe naming Finn because the First Order only gave him a number
-Ahsoka Tano’s reverse lightsaber grip
-Princess Leia’s early and mature wisdom
-Vader throwing his lightsaber at Luke so he will SHUT. UP.
-Ezra Bridger’s stormtrooper helmet collection
-Maul and Savage’s intricate full body Dathomir tattoos
-Clones painting their armor
-Sabe posing as Queen Amidala and smiling a little too giddily as she tells the undercover Padme to clean R2-D2
-Skywalker ponchos
-The roar of a TIE fighter
-19 year old Princess Leia smiling as she sasses two of the most dangerous men in the galaxy
-Darth Vader’s clear hatred for the Death Star, and the corresponding anxious body language of his grandson towards the Starkiller Base
-Obi-Wan doing shots in the middle of a chase scene
-The dangerous smile that spreads across Luke’s face as he tells Jabba the Hutt “This will be the last mistake you’ll ever make.”
-Recent developments that hint that when the dying Anakin Skywalker looked into his son’s big blue eyes as he said “I won’t leave you. I’ve got to save you” he is remembering a young Togrutan girl with big blue eyes firmly stating to Vader “I won’t leave you. Not this time” and how he betrayed her
So the topic of smut writing came up earlier today and I’m just reaching out into Tumblr land to see if I can gather up thoughts on how all of you out there started writing sexy times.
Share with me your stories! The behind the scenes on your journey to smut writing!
How did you feel about writing smut BEFORE you actually started writing it? Were you nervous or did you just jump in? Do you ever get self-conscious about what you’re writing? Do you have a “go-to” formula and/or kink?
So on and so forth.
Speak to me! I’m curious!
Re: Smutfic. I got into fandom very late. Like 34. I read a lot of smutfic before i ever started writing it.
My fanfic journey pretty much went Jack Harkness> Torchwood> Sherlock, as far as reading it is concerned. I was a little nervous at first, but considering the first thing i wrote for Sherlock was a threesome, I pretty much just went in with both feet. Aside from a wee bit of Janto, I’m pretty sure Sherlock was the first fandom I wrote smut for.
I do get self conscious sometimes. I’ve been known to mutter “I am so going to hell for this.” But at this point most of the embarrassment is gone. Though I do struggle with feeling like I’m “just” a smut writer and not important.
What tends to be essential to me, even in a 700 word pwp, is that there’s some emotion involved. Tab A to Slot B gets boring, and even if you kink it up, there still needs to be a reason why these two (or three or four) are going at it. Same reason why I’m a multishipper. Give me a reason why these two would work. Though I don’t generally take much convincing.
There’s no real go-to (though maybe my readers have noticed stuff I haven’t). I’ll pretty much take a crack at writing most kinks.
My personal golden rule for writing is simply “Does this make sense?” Am I keeping track of what limbs are where and who is doing what? Does it make sense for these characters to be doing this now? If it is a little OOC, is there a reason why? Stuff like that.
