9. Can anyone else read my laptop screen from here?

[resonant]

Things I'm thinking while reading sex scenes (in ascending order of frequency)

1. Not thinking at all. Laughing, crying, aroused, and elated. OMG. Wow.

2. Eee, this is just what they need! This puts back together the heart that the first part of the story broke. I'm so happy now!

3. This is really well done. Wish I'd thought of it.

4a. What, all that buildup for two paragraphs that don't even tell me what specific act they're doing?
4b. What, two paragraphs of buildup and the entire rest of the story is finger-by-finger detail of sex between two people who are already aware they're in love?

5. Wait, you don't mean to tell me he's going to reward that sort of behavior? Oh, lord, he is.

6. [skim skim skim]

7. Nope. [back arrow]

8. Hm. Other people's arms must be a lot longer than mine are.

Comments

[libitina]

Yoga has definitely taught me that other people's arms are longer than mine. But some fics... yeah.

[cesperanza]

I really see too much of 4a and 4b!!! Both! The story of sexual despair (mine, that is!)

[china_shop]

5. Wait, you don't mean to tell me he's going to reward that sort of behavior? Oh, lord, he is.

Hee! /o\ /o\ /o\

[karmageddon]

this killed me.

almost spit out my drink on #5

[starfish]

You forgot : You've clearly never actually participated in or witnessed sex in real life, because that's not how human bodies work. Ow.

[out_there]

8. Hm. Other people's arms must be a lot longer than mine are.

OMG, I've had that exact thought. And then really wondered. (And, occasionally, if I'm terribly bored, tried to work out if I could reach if I twisted my shoulder just so...) Inevitably, I realise that my arms are shorter or other people are waaaaaaaaaaaaaay more flexible.

[panisdead]

8. Hm. Other people's arms must be a lot longer than mine are.

SO TRUE.

in re: 8

[jenna_thorn]

TMI moment -- my husband is incredibly amused by my hobby, in no small part because I'll be tapping away, look up, grab him by the wrist and say, "take off your pants and move your arm here."

It's not like his hobby requires periodic enthusiastic sex.

[vickita]

All of these. Yes.

[wanted_a_pony]

8. Hm. Other people's arms must be a lot longer than mine are.

Ahahahahaha! Oh lord, I'm not the only one! And here I thought I was a freak of nature....

[toft]

SO. TRUE.

[myalexandria]

My current fandom features one guy who is IRL ridiculously flexible, with lots of video evidence to prove it. I gather from the sex scene writers that this is really freeing. "Can he handle this position? ...Yes, yes he could."

[zats_clear]

hilarious! And so true. Altho my order is a bit different than yours :)

[basingstoke]

I have a pair of those wooden artist models that I use to test proportions--can they reach this from there?

Flexibility I can pretty much test myself...I'm reasonably flexible, but not an athlete, so I just round up or down from there. Writing Spider-Man is fun because he is canonically made of rubber bands and Slinkies. Bones are always a limiter though.

[the_oscar_cat]

this whole thing has me hooting!

I would also include prostates which are obvious and stupidly easy to find. as if that was the ONLY THING making any of it pleasurable. i have yet to see someone use the term 'boy clit' but i'm sure it's out there somewhere.