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⌈ Secret Post #5872 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I'm a pretty thorough tagger, but the hill I die on is who tops in slash.

[(Anonymous)]

+1

[(Anonymous)]

That's one I rarely think of tagging as a writer, but then I'll be in the mood for a specific thing-- like, if the fandom mostly has character A top, I'll search for bottom!A just for something different. But for pairings where there's no overwhelming consensus then I don't really care.

[(Anonymous)]

Of course I respect people's decision not to tag for this, but man, as someone who has strong preferences it sure is useful. Also, I don't really feel like it's any more ridiculous that tagging multiple sex acts that feature in the fic. Like, do you need to tag "anal sex," "rimming," "multiple orgasms," and "frottage"? No. But is it a yummy little teaser that makes my horny brain go, "Uh, yes please, I would like some of that"? Definitely. Throwing "Top A" and "Bottom B" tags in there just adds sizzle to the steak.

But again, top/bottom tags are unnecessary and of course nobody should be pestering you about it.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, for me there are definitely some pairings where I can only see the dynamics working a specific way, so if you switch them around then I'm just not interested at all.

For example, a lot of my fandom likes to write Character A as being the top but to me they're 100% a power bottom who calls the shots from the bottom while Character B service tops, so reading A/B just doesn't do it for me because that's not how I interpret their dynamics.

[(Anonymous)]

YEAH! I like a lot of switchy pairings, but one of my fandoms went from small and chill back in the day to HUGE and very un-chill about like... claiming 'Character A will die if he is forced to top', when... B has tremendous pillow princess vibes and A could not be presented as more of his service top if they'd had sex on screen? And this isn't about appearance or what have you, there are femme tops and butch bottoms and lots of people who are somewhere in the middle and like whatever they like, but specifically about their flirtier interactions with each other, and who pulls which moves, and whose posturing/clothing draws more attention to the crotch...

And like... some of it is just the price of admission-- women, even queer women, will sometimes have a really different interpretation of certain things than I do as a queer man (like, if you don't at least have a theoretical interest in having sex with other queer men, you probably don't clock certain things), and if they prefer it one way because it's hot, that doesn't bother me, but I like to be able to FIND the stuff that lines up more with my interpretation when what I like is already in a minority. In that fandom I got actual hate from strangers just for writing it against the fandom grain, even though when I was first into the fandom/pairing, that wasn't a thing.


Current hyperfixation... again, like... there's a big trend in making A a very femme-y bottom and masculinizing B, where A is a canonically quite masc guy who's sexually experienced as a penetrating partner, and B is putting out the TOP ME signal pretty strong in a couple scenes (and much of his appeal is that while he's certainly masculine by his own standards, he doesn't give a fuck about anyone else's-- he's not a big, aggressive guy, he's a little on the pretty side and his body language might not be full limp-wrist, but it's definitely leaning into cute and playful rather than 'big strong man who fucks')

[(Anonymous)]

This.

Most of my m/m pairings are vers4vers in my head because that's what I like best, so tagging top/bottom even if there's one penetrative scene in the fic seems to me like it sets up weird expectations for how I'm supposed be writing their roles in other ways. And of course in a long fic they'll probably switch.

[(Anonymous)]

I see what you did there.