Oh good, now I shan't have to get round to answering your comments within the time that a reasonable person might bother to come back and check for replies ;-)
Assuming that you actually remember to log in, that is :-p
And assuming that the 'email me if someone responds to my comment' notification is on by default, which it may not be...
Also, look what happens on Tumblr when someone points out, via an anonymous ask not, that the author uses 'purr' (instead of 'said') too often. You can see the reactions in the notes (in the comments and in the reblogs with comments).
Well, I can see why the request has to be made anonymously :-(
"Don't like it, don't read it" isn't going to cut any of these writers much ice if they try to branch out beyond the self-reinforcing tropes of online smut; editors won't like it, and they won't read it -- or print it either. But then this is probably the type of author who believes that the world is full of 'entitled gatekeepers' just trying to stifle their daringly transgressive self-expression (and who doesn't believe in proof-reading before self-publishing either)...
The trouble with smut, in my opinion, is that all too often it does rely on repetitive words and phrases that are supposed to evoke the desired response simply by existing :-(
I don't know the author or her work, but if she's anything like most people writing Loki x Reader on Tumblr, then 'purr', 'coo', 'hum' are the standard way to say 'say'. :)
I had a look at some of her WARNING WARNING WARNING Not Safe For Work stuff (none of which chapters did in fact contain anything more suggestive than Sigyn holding a knife to her husband's throat because she thought he was an imposter), and I couldn't see that she had used the word 'purr' at all. So I can't think why she is getting so defensive about it!
(For some reason I find the idea of Loki x Reader, or indeed Loki x anyone, instinctively off-putting. Possibly because Loki's character in the movies that I've seen has been so totally unromantic -- he has zero canon seduction moves, so that's got to be *complete* gratuitous fantasy, a.k.a. character-rape...)
If I read about dialogue being 'purred', I'd normally associate that with threat -- it's the sort of thing Bond villains do :-P
"I wonder, my dear," he purred, "if you have quite thought through the consequences?" It would be a pity if that face of yours were to become... shall we say, permanently unrecognisable."
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Date: 2022-11-16 11:50 pm (UTC)Oh good, now I shan't have to get round to answering your comments within the time that a reasonable person might bother to come back and check for replies ;-)
Assuming that you actually remember to log in, that is :-p
And assuming that the 'email me if someone responds to my comment' notification is on by default, which it may not be...
Well, I can see why the request has to be made anonymously :-(
"Don't like it, don't read it" isn't going to cut any of these writers much ice if they try to branch out beyond the self-reinforcing tropes of online smut; editors won't like it, and they won't read it -- or print it either. But then this is probably the type of author who believes that the world is full of 'entitled gatekeepers' just trying to stifle their daringly transgressive self-expression (and who doesn't believe in proof-reading before self-publishing either)...
The trouble with smut, in my opinion, is that all too often it does rely on repetitive words and phrases that are supposed to evoke the desired response simply by existing :-(
I had a look at some of her WARNING WARNING WARNING Not Safe For Work stuff (none of which chapters did in fact contain anything more suggestive than Sigyn holding a knife to her husband's throat because she thought he was an imposter), and I couldn't see that she had used the word 'purr' at all. So I can't think why she is getting so defensive about it!
(For some reason I find the idea of Loki x Reader, or indeed Loki x anyone, instinctively off-putting. Possibly because Loki's character in the movies that I've seen has been so totally unromantic -- he has zero canon seduction moves, so that's got to be *complete* gratuitous fantasy, a.k.a. character-rape...)
If I read about dialogue being 'purred', I'd normally associate that with threat -- it's the sort of thing Bond villains do :-P