amireal2u:

jaqofspades:

phantomwise:

You know reading fanfic (and being kind of a porn aficionado myself) it’s interesting how different fandoms have certain porn trends. Like yeah the usual gamut of kink always exists to varying degrees, some more obvious than others – teen wolf used to be heavy on the knotting for obvious reasons while anything in dragon age involving the iron bull is gonna be an ode to size kink. But there are also subtler trends, like fandoms where no one ever forgets the condom, or every fic has some element of bdsm, or every fic has a warning for rimming. You can actually tell a lot about the fandom discourse™ just from reading its porn.

And now I feel the need to write meta comparing the porn trends within and across my fandoms dammit.  This is such an interesting observation.  I have a mental picture of a huge, elaborate set of Venn diagrams, charting the various fandoms and their crossover points by kink, ship etc.  Someone who understands statistics needs to get on that right away 😛

I’ve often felt like an anthropologist/sociologist when I fall into an older, mostly defunct fandom. I can trace a lot of the discourse through the types of fic (and porn) I run into. I sometimes line the timeline up with where I was in fandom at the time and it often sheds even more light. Lots of things change depending on national public discourse, major fandom platform, and for a long time, the biggest fandom_wank post of the month.

It’s always kinda fun for me b/c I feel like I’m totally knowledgable about something for once and like, I can pretend to be that weird specialist that’s brought in once a season on some procedural show that slowly gets a cult following.