squirm words

[lobelia321]

Words that jar in my eyes when I'm reading slash:



Any man saying 'love' to any other man, especially when that man is Scottish. Especially bad when that man is saying 'Aye, luv'.

Anyone saying 'Love you' without pronoun. Anyone saying 'Want you' without a pronoun. Both of these are meant to be cute, perhaps? Or to suggest breathless incoherence, hence the dropping of the pronoun? What they do to me is set my guts on edge.

Anyone saying 'Bed. Now.' This one is, to me, a complete turn-off. Often, it intrudes into what is otherwise a romantic scene of passion. And suddenly this command. :-(

Anyone shouting out anyone else's name during sex. That is, the actual words 'shouting out his name' appear in the text. Not 'oh, John, fuck' (I love that!) but just 'he came, shouting out John's name'. It just irritates me. I want the name in direct speech. And if there's any shouting, I want it justified.

Anyone being called anyone else's 'lover'. Especially during sex scenes when it's kind of obvious.

Anyone being termed 'the other man', unless it be for specific stylistic purposes.

And I still haven't got used to the word 'ass' in the American sense (that is, meaning arse, not meaning donkey). 'He slammed into his ass': that just jars for me. But I'm having to live with it, as 1/2 of my Flist at least writes in American English. To my ears, there is just no hole in 'ass'. Asscheeks? OK. 'Cute ass': ok. But anything going into an ass? I keep having to translate in my mind.



Words I like (I've made a post about this before but here are some that just come to mind off the top of my head):



Penis. Not everybody shares my love for this word. Some think this word is too clinical and deters from passion in a sex scene. Not I. To me, the word suggests something vulnerable and tender.

Cum (the noun). Some people don't like this spelling but to me it has something dirty, filthy, like mis-spelled rude graffiti. So I don't mind it.

Mouth. I can never drool enough over that word. It is a pure lust object. Just say it! Mm - ow- th. Gorgeous. And so sexy.

Anyone coming 'all over' anything or anyone else. Technically impossible but the image of abandon and bounty it conjures up in my head is lovely.

'He came and came', or even (as I read earlier today), 'He came and came and came'. A beta once told me to delete the second 'came' in my very first fic and I dutifully did but thinking about it now I like it (for similar reasons of bounty and abandon). But used sparingly. (Unlike mouth, which I can never get enough of.)

Comments

[cathexys.livejournal.com]

LOL...all your love words are total turnoffs for me...i'll handle the come and come in certain instances, but cum...it's worse than three homonyms in a row for me :-)

i agree with several of your turnoffs, though none of them are huge for me. a lot of things actually kind of grew to annoy me, b/c they occur so often, like he padded to the bathroom or he was harder than he'd ever been in his life or sucking on tongues... *shrugs* it's amazing how delicate turning us on is, isn't it???

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

It is a pity how some nice words get turned into turn-offs by their sheer quantity in fanfic. The 'padding' is a funny one for me, *g*. I used it in my very first posted fic, and the beta queried it and told me 'this is not a word'. I felt so unsure of myself at the time that I even went to the dictionary to look it up! And was all smug and triumphant when I could email her back, saying 'actually, yes, it is a word and I'm going to use it'. *g*

Sucking on tongues -- oh, you remind me of another diction I don't like!! Tongues 'tangling' -- I hate that!!

[justabi.livejournal.com]

I... have mixed feelings about luv. When the actual characters use it in canon, I don't have a problem with it, but other than that, yeah. But then I am not a fan of pet names, even though I know that men do in fact use them. I just don't like it.

he came, shouting out John's name' ARG!

Lover. Gah. Hate. That. Word. Sooo much. Possibly stemming from an incident when I was 14 when my mother asked me if I was going to take a lover. *shudders*

'the other man' or the scientist or worse, *his* scientist. *smacks people* Epithets are bad, mmmkay?

No sympathy from me. None. I read HP fiction and the non-American spellings make me *in-fucking-sane*.

Penis is one of those words that can either be a fantastic choice or something that can just yank you right out of the scene. I like dick, but that's just me. It's what all the guys I know call theirs, and let me just tell you how not shy they are about the overshare. Boys. *shakes head* Plus, it's kinda dirty and I like that.

Cum, yes, god yes. It should be that way. As a noun. Mmmm. Dirty. You see a pattern?

Mouths are always, always of the good. Especially crooked mouths, cocksucker mouths, and really any at all kinda lips. But for some reason not wide mouths. Huh.

Yes! all over! Dirty and wonderful!

*giggle*

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

I have a problem with character use in canon. The scriptwriters of SGA are always making Carson say 'wee' and 'aye' and other Scottishisms that irritate me in canon as much as they irritate me in fanon. This is definitely a case where I'm all for disregarding canon and creating a better fanon. Also, when you simply hear the word, you cannot tell whether it is to be a 'love' or a 'luv'. The 'luv' annoys me even more than the 'love'. Which is odd because the 'cum' does not annoy me.

No sympathy from me. None. I read HP fiction and the non-American spellings make me *in-fucking-sane*.
Heh. Are you American, then? I am German so neutral. But I learned my English in Australia so also a tad biased. *g*

[justabi.livejournal.com]

See, his use of Scottishisms is looow on my list of Things Wrong With Carson in Canon. The list goes something like this:

1) A geneticist *and* a surgeon. Really? Working on retroviruses and doing apendectomies as, what, a hobby? The pathologist is probably better suited to cut people open, you know what I'm saying? Sure, they might make him pull double duty when there is *no one* else, but he now has all those people from Earth *more qualified* than him after Intruder, what is he still doing *treating patients*?

2) His ethics are *all over the place*. He can make biological weapons but he can't respect a DNR? The hell? He's all cautious on Hoff, but he's willing have his first human trial of a retrovirus be on his buddy, a guy who they actually *need*? *sigh*

3) Two words: Mama's Boy. This, I actually like, but I really don't see him wasting his precious time chosing medical staff when he could be home examining his mams foot fungus.

Then all the words that really ought to be coming out of the mouth of the little guy on the side of the Lucky Charms box.

Also, yes, American. *waves flag peppered with words spelled with no unnecesary u's*

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

Hoho: catalogue. favourite. humour.

Um, can't think of any others but I'm sure there must be loads! Louads!

[eve-took.livejournal.com]

I love the band Placebo, and I love the image of Placebo pairings, but I *hate* most of the Placebo fanfiction out there, I'd say 98% of it! Why? The stories ALWAYS include the following expression when it comes to describing Steve, the bassist, who is Swedish, in any scene:

"the tall Swede"

AARRRGHHH!!!! There has been a quite nice introduction, quite nice introduction into a sex scene, and then "the tall Swede"! I don't know why exactly I hate it that much but...it's...just...AAHHH!

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