madelinemasoch
Masoch's 2nd Cumming
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I’ve been working hard on a short story for Lit since the 6th of this month when I got struck with the idea. It was cooking in my subconscious mind for at least a month or two before that. I could feel it constructing itself before a word was ever put down deep within me, but I didn’t really know what it was until that day.
I can’t decide what category it goes in. I haven’t gotten to most of the sexual parts in it yet because there’s a certain blockage to it within me and the ideas are still flowing and formulating themselves. They hide. They’re not fully comfortable yet. Ironically, that’s what the story is for in terms of me as an author writing it in the thick of the process: making me feel comfortable within my own skin to be myself again on a libidinal from-the-inside-out level. I’d forgotten what I like about certain “fetishes” and now I’m slowly coming to and remembering. I’m in an emotional recovery kind of thing. Thank God that’s what the ideas are. Else I would be sad.
Basically, without spoiling it, it’s an all-female cast with one trans woman in terms of characters who actually have names (except for a male dog (not involved in the sex obviously)). There’s BDSM elements I guess but it’s on a deeper level than that. The characters symbolize positive qualities which endows them with power, not to hurt or exploit the main character but to heal her and keep her (and themselves) safe from negativity.
I know it doesn’t go in most Lit categories (definitely not LW, definitely not NC/R, definitely not Incest, definitely not Anal, definitely not Gay Male) but it also doesn’t fit neatly into many of the other possibilities, namely Interracial or Lesbian, because while those elements are there it isn’t a central essence or locus of the thing and it doesn’t serve the general fantasy expressed in those markets well. Like I said there’s a naturally unfolding BDSM dynamic but that isn’t a fetishistic thing in the story. And one of the characters is transgender but that doesn’t really matter to any of them. It’s purely underlying and not in the foreground, at least so far. That aspect isn’t put under a microscope or spoken through a megaphone. It definitely isn’t fetishized.
The whole thing is so feminine and sweet that it doesn’t serve a masculine porn fantasy. I don’t even think it will do very well in terms of ratings and reception for this reason. I don’t mind that. I’m going to get my vision across to someone either way.
For an obvious reason it isn’t a straight romance: while not a harem piece, it doesn’t have a monogamous relationship angle. At the same time, the characters aren’t jealous or rivalrous of each other. All of these choices are made for a reason, to accurately express the ideas for the story.
So the two obvious categories left are either Transgender or BDSM. I’m heavily leaning towards BDSM but I am not entirely sure because it doesn’t serve a fetishistic fantasy ready made in the market. I am not flipping hamburgers (no offense). I realize my new ideas are basically uncategorizable in terms of Lit categories.
I can’t decide what category it goes in. I haven’t gotten to most of the sexual parts in it yet because there’s a certain blockage to it within me and the ideas are still flowing and formulating themselves. They hide. They’re not fully comfortable yet. Ironically, that’s what the story is for in terms of me as an author writing it in the thick of the process: making me feel comfortable within my own skin to be myself again on a libidinal from-the-inside-out level. I’d forgotten what I like about certain “fetishes” and now I’m slowly coming to and remembering. I’m in an emotional recovery kind of thing. Thank God that’s what the ideas are. Else I would be sad.
Basically, without spoiling it, it’s an all-female cast with one trans woman in terms of characters who actually have names (except for a male dog (not involved in the sex obviously)). There’s BDSM elements I guess but it’s on a deeper level than that. The characters symbolize positive qualities which endows them with power, not to hurt or exploit the main character but to heal her and keep her (and themselves) safe from negativity.
I know it doesn’t go in most Lit categories (definitely not LW, definitely not NC/R, definitely not Incest, definitely not Anal, definitely not Gay Male) but it also doesn’t fit neatly into many of the other possibilities, namely Interracial or Lesbian, because while those elements are there it isn’t a central essence or locus of the thing and it doesn’t serve the general fantasy expressed in those markets well. Like I said there’s a naturally unfolding BDSM dynamic but that isn’t a fetishistic thing in the story. And one of the characters is transgender but that doesn’t really matter to any of them. It’s purely underlying and not in the foreground, at least so far. That aspect isn’t put under a microscope or spoken through a megaphone. It definitely isn’t fetishized.
The whole thing is so feminine and sweet that it doesn’t serve a masculine porn fantasy. I don’t even think it will do very well in terms of ratings and reception for this reason. I don’t mind that. I’m going to get my vision across to someone either way.
For an obvious reason it isn’t a straight romance: while not a harem piece, it doesn’t have a monogamous relationship angle. At the same time, the characters aren’t jealous or rivalrous of each other. All of these choices are made for a reason, to accurately express the ideas for the story.
So the two obvious categories left are either Transgender or BDSM. I’m heavily leaning towards BDSM but I am not entirely sure because it doesn’t serve a fetishistic fantasy ready made in the market. I am not flipping hamburgers (no offense). I realize my new ideas are basically uncategorizable in terms of Lit categories.
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