Aliens made them
Apr. 8th, 2005 09:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
resonantI'm very fond of "Aliens made them do it" stories. Considered as smut, they've got a lot going for them -- easy method of getting reluctant characters who think they're straight to go to bed together, nice insta-angst afterwards.
Sometimes, though, I can't stop myself from considering them not as smut but as stories.
And then I start thinking: Aliens only ever want slash characters to do four things: Be (or pose as) master and slave; ingest intoxicants; fight; or fuck.
Why not something really useful? Carry water, chop wood, build stuff?
Or something genuinely entertaining? Dance? Sing?
Or, for unfathomable alien reasons, crochet?
Sometimes, though, I can't stop myself from considering them not as smut but as stories.
And then I start thinking: Aliens only ever want slash characters to do four things: Be (or pose as) master and slave; ingest intoxicants; fight; or fuck.
Why not something really useful? Carry water, chop wood, build stuff?
Or something genuinely entertaining? Dance? Sing?
Or, for unfathomable alien reasons, crochet?
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Date: 4/20/05 03:43 am (UTC)I loved this. Perfect characterization too. And that includes the aliens: if I was a small lizard, that is exactly what I'd get from those otherwise useless humans whose sole redeeming feature is their opposable thumb which allows them to crochet all manner of warm fuzzy things. Lizards are cold-blooded, aren't they? :D
The hopping was good too...
Not unfathomable at all, really. :)