Journal - "A Kink Meme?"

[leskuh]

So, I might have made an anonymous kink meme for the Sims....

I'll give you guys the link to the comm soon enough and ask you to PIMP IT OUT, but for now I just need input.

What should I allow as far as what kind of sims should be allowed? Because the problem is that you can make ANYONE with the sims and so you venture into RPF and even weirder than Sim celebrity RPF would be the inevitable Sim player RPF. I don't mind RPF even if it ain't my thing, but it seems like it could get REALLY wanky REALLY fast if we start bringing in internet personas and that sort of thing. And wank in a porn meme is upsetting.

So I'm thinking about saying no RPF Sims at all, but am worried about the backlash that might cause. But not REALLY worried. It's just like... I can see the inevitable wank storm it might bring, but I think it'd be good for the Sims comm to hear 'no' or even just "I am sad for you but thems the breaks."

I also thought about just limiting it to premades, but that's no fun! People definitely have ships from other's legacies or their own or even from somebody else's story and I think it'd be neat to have that option available.

I AM SO CONFLICTED.

Tell me what you think!

Comments

[simgaroop.livejournal.com]

For me, it's much more enjoyable to write and read about what happens before and after "the action" than the event itself. Maybe it's my experience reading bad fanfic a few years ago, but there was a point in which I could recite how would every sex scene develop in any story... I dunno, the descriptions are often too mechanical, lacking emotions.

As the people of MATY would say, I'm such a silly F-ly individual (from the Myers-Brigs test, I'm a "feeling" person instead of a "judging" one).

You're absolutely right! I'll keep that mind regarding the pictures. I guess I'll have to control my freckle-love when I take them! ;)

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

I agree with you there. That's why I'm usually more than happy with the "fade to black" technique. It also leaves it open for the reader to interpret.

I think the challenge of writing a sex scene would be in not having it sound mechanical or unrealistic or completely silly, and I know that's a worthy challenge. I've read examples of good erotic stories, but I've also read some bad Harlequin romance too (as a young, impressionable preteen, sneaking a look at my mother's collection). It's easy to write this stuff badly, but it can be done well. I think a lot should be said for keeping a sense of humour in it too.

I'm glad we've made it clear that kinks do not have to be explicitly sexual. I would consider requests for something really emotional and angsty to be a kink too, and it's something that people would seek out.

Yeah, and not just the freckles. I would consider (for myself) using a whole new set of defaults if I was going to do images. I'm not sure if I will, but it might be fun to try. I know someone started up a straight up "sexy sim stories" community a while back, that was meant to be for more adult sim stories, but it never took off.