Schmiezi wrote:

Vhanja wrote:

It is very hard especially when we haven't seen the two of them have sex. One is hetero, and the other is... Sherlock. So that makes it extra challenging to write a good sex scene.
 

Well ...
http://sherlock.boardhost.com/viewtopic.php?id=5783

 
You're such a bad girl Schmiezi!

Vhanja wrote:

ancientsgate wrote:

IMO that's true for the whole story, not just the sex scenes within the story. I want Sherlock to sound like Sherlock, saying and doing Sherlock things, and the same for John, saying and doing John things. Just because the two of them have decided to hook up in the story I'm reading, I don't want to sit there and wonder who in heck those two guys are, because I cannot "see" or "hear" our familiar guys in the author's Sherlock and John. So anyway, yeah, I want the sex scenes to ring true in that way, but I want the characterizations in the whole story to ring true as well, whatever the author has them getting up to throughout.

Oh, absolutely! I think the same. But I've read fics where the everyday dialogue seem to be IC and true to Sherlock and John, but as soon as the sex scenes starts it becomes... generic porn. I can't recognize any of them any more.
It is very hard especially when we haven't seen the two of them have sex. One is hetero, and the other is... Sherlock. So that makes it extra challenging to write a good sex scene. 

The smart authors are the ones who know for sure they can't write sex scenes, so they don't try, they just write fade-to-black or they stick to friendship stories. OTOH, until an author tries, she'll never know whether or not she can write good romantic sex scenes.

IMO we don't have to have seen sex scenes in the actual show---  even if we did, they wouldn't be very explicit anyway--  after all, if someone were writing an original story (not fan fic) with their own original characters, everything they're writing would be stuff they'd never seen before. That's what being creative is all about--  producing something wonderful out of nothing but an idea.
 

silverblaze wrote:

The story should move forward, even in a sex scene. It's not an intermezzo, at least not if you want the scene to be interesting. Something must happen, usually the emotional meaning of the sex. The bonding (or lack thereof) between the two people involved. Otherwise it's just a description of a physical process. Boring as hell.

Porn. That's what porn is-- sex for the sake of having sex, and nothing else worth talking about going on. It makes me mad when people categorize all homoerotic romantic fan fic as porn--  it's not, not unless it's PWP, and even a lot of stories labeled PWP *still* have relationship aspects to them that remove them out of the realm of porn and into romance.

Someone should really recommend a PWP fic now.

Ah, yes, I forgot about that. Maybe we will have to open another one or, which is easier, change the title of the Round Table accordingly. Because I would like to keep recs and discussions apart if possible. Just for the sake of clearness. 

Oh, this is true. Tonnaree is not very fond of adult fiction. 

Oh, the poor innocent soul. 

Done. 

I did not smoke anything. We just did not want to hurt your sensitivity or whatever it is called by sullying your round table. Too late now. 

Schmiezi wrote:

Someone should really recommend a PWP fic now.

Schmiezi, I love this, and yes, some new fic recs would be wonderful, PWP or not.

 

I simply put a warning in the Round Table title. So we can discuss everything smutty and non-smutty in there and keep this for recs. Of course people can say I loved that fic, etc, but longer general discussions should go in the other thread.