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Recent fic posted on AO3:

• Title: Sparring Session
Fandom/Pairing: Soul Calibur; Mi-na/Yun-seong
Rating/Warnings: NC-17; explicit sex, casual sex, held down
Summary/Prompt: A sparring session between Yun-seong and Mi-na quickly turns sexual.
Word Count: 1251

• Title: Kiss of Death
Fandom/Character: Soul Calibur; Tira
Rating/Warnings: PG-13; violent imagery, references to torture
Summary/Prompt: Tira is the last thing that (s)he tastes. A ficlet / short character study for Tira written for this prompt at soulcaliburkink.
Word Count: 525

• Title: A Not-Kiss
Fandom/Pairing: Soul Calibur; Mi-na/Yun-seong
Rating/Warnings: G
Summary/Prompt: Mistakes were made. A one-shot featuring Yun-seong and Mi-na accidentally kissing, written for this prompt at soulcaliburkink.
Word Count: 565

• Title: The Princess and the Tiger
Fandom/Pairing: [Disney] Aladdin; Jasmine/Rajah
Rating/Warnings: NC-17; dub-con/non-con, bestiality, explicit sex, physically overpowered, semi-accurate tiger anatomy (including a barbed/bristled penis)
Summary/Prompt: Rajah senses Jasmine's arousal one night and decides to act on it. Jasmine/Rajah dubcon. Written for this prompt at Disney Kink.
Word Count: 1126

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As a sidenote, I was feeling a bit insecure posting some of these fics. Sometimes fandom and Tumblr can be very kink-negative, in an "I think people should feel free to ship what they like! 😊❤🌈 Except incest or pedophilia, of course!" kind of way, or an "I don't like [pairing] because... ew" kind of way. I understand that people are just expressing their honest opinions about what types of pairings evoke feelings of disgust in them, but it can feel a bit like they're making a statement that those things are meant to be universal, like it's never okay for people to write certain ships, or that "shipping" and "disgust" are incompatible frames of mind.

I think this is a result of the fact that the word "shipping" has different meanings, and so misunderstandings happen. One meaning of shipping is "I think these characters would be good for each other in a happy, healthy long-term relationship" (an expression of endgame desires) and another meaning of shipping is "I like exploring this relationship and produce a lot of fanworks for it and really dig it/get turned on by it even though it's weird/fucked up/not healthy/actively traumatizing for at least one of the characters" (an expression of general enthusiasm, even though it would be a "bad end" for one of the characters). Ship wars are often fought using the ammunition of the former ("I would hate for [rival ship] to become canon because it's not as healthy as [my ship]") because the aim of ship wars is to influence what the canon pairing should be. But this is often interpreted by bystanders as implying that there's no space in fandom for enthusiastically writing about unhealthy pairings. And bystanders don't get that impression for no reason, because people deep in ship wars often do slide between "this pairing is unhealthy" and "people shouldn't ship it" and vice versa, trying to argue that one entails the other.

Anyway, this is all to say that, after seeing a lot of the "I don't ship [pairing] because gross" attitude recently, I was kind of worried about posting two older fics I wrote involving incest (A Face Like Her Mother's, which I already posted here) and bestiality (the one above). But the response was... really enthusiastic! Within two days, the Jasmine/Rajah one got 13 kudos, 2 bookmarks, and 500 hits, and the Ariel/Triton one currently has 4 kudos, 3 bookmarks, and 700 hits. This isn't a kink-specific phenomenon -- in general, my explicit fiction of all types gets about 10 times the amount of attention as my tamer gen fic, which I think is a testament to the horniness of fandom. But it's a bit reassuring that people are willing to give the dark stuff a try and to express appreciation for it (even more than they are willing to try inoffensive fluff!). So thanks, horny fandom, for giving me reassurance when I was feeling a bit insecure.