Snowflake Challenge #9

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

In your own space, brag about yourself. Tell us what things you've done that you're proud of; the things that make you the wonderful person you are. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

1. I've been writing fanfic for seven years and I've got (as of today) 2,076,637 words in my AO3 account.

2. I've never met a kink I didn't try to understand. My most popular fic is an explicit-rated BBC Sherlock ficlet collection called Cheers. It is at 237 chapters of exactly 500 words each, 1k+ kudos and 1600+ comments, many pairings and moresomes. I've been adding to it for five years. It's pure kink, everything from piss play to parrot play, alien eggs to drugged-body-glitter-made-us-do-it. The chapters are named after beverages (usually alcoholic). I'm ashamed of many aspects of my past and present, but kinkshaming? Nopity nope. I know the difference between reality and fiction (if only in this one aspect of my life). I recently got this comment on my Snow White and the Seven Dwarves PWP [Nights are for Sharing]:

Ha ha! I read your Sherlock and GO and it never occurred to me you were anything like this LOL. Fun.

I am, in fact, Like This, and I am not so much proud of being Like This as proud of the fact that I know being Like This is okay. It's something I know in my core, a non-negotiable, one of the few. I mean, I'm a mom who doesn't really like children and a wife who doesn't like marriage and a stay-at-home person who doesn't like staying home and a soccer parent who doesn't like soccer. I've bent on so much that it's comforting to find some aspect of life where I don't bend. And it's hilarious that it's kink.

Comments

[paulamcg]

What a delightful bragging post! Congrats on the admirable amount of fic and on its reception and on all the kink! How wonderful that you've found an aspect where not to bend! ♥

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Thank you very much!

[smallhobbit]

That is an amazing number of words. I'm delighted you're happy with all the kinks.

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Thank you for reading most of the 2 million. I include the competency kink!

[lunabee34]

I am so impressed with that word count. And delighted by your delight in kink.

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Thank you, thank you! So many things are nebulous, it's nice to have a few solids.

[cuddyclothes]

Congratulations on your word count! And I envy your being so confident about being Like This and proud of your kinkiness.

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Thank you, thank you! It helps having Bertie, who you can do truly absurd things with and find them perfectly in-character!

[analise010]

This is so delightful! I love reading about how people express their desires through kink.

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Thank you! Fic and fanlife has definitely changed me for the better!

[write_out]

Am blown away by that word count!! Brag on all you want about that! Also, like someone else said above, I'm delighted by your delight with kink. How freeing!

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Thank you, thank you! Fandom is a transforming thing in more ways than one!

[deerna]

your way to approach kink makes me happy because i feel it very relatable to me - tho my approach is more like of the read a shitton of fic about it variety. i do have my dnw but i will try (to read) anything once. a delightful bragging post!

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Thank you! And thank you for sharing your perspective. Yeah, I mean, there are kinks I don't write a lot. Or ones I haven't written more than once, but when faced with something new (like I only learned a few months ago about gingering), I sort of sit with it and try to figure out what is going on and what the person(s) doing it are getting out of it and how I can make it my own based on the aspects of it that appeal.

[ancientreader]

It takes a particular generosity of spirit to try to understand kinks you don't share, rather than just shrug them off or, worse, condemn them.

And I remain, as always, in awe of your productivity.

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

I suppose it's an area (kink) that I'm genuinely interested in about other people or maybe the psychology of it is interesting to me. It makes me curious in a way that other aspects of people (clothes, hair, even occupation) don't.

Thank you!

[ancientreader]

Spouse and I used occasionally to go to a regular BDSM party. We never played much in public, but it was always fascinating to watch and listen. My psychiatrist asked me about the appeal of watching other people have sex, and I didn't even have to think about the answer: Because people have sex in just as varied & revelatory ways as they talk, or eat, or dress.

[debriswoman]

Well done re words written
And as for the rest...very well put:-)

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Thank you very much!

[luthienberen]

Splendid word count! Congratulations!

I like how comfortable you are with enjoying your kinks and knowing this is a part of you. A wonderful and healthy approach. Also, respect how you try to understand various kinks, that is a fabulous mindset to have :)

That is actually a sweet comment, I'm glad the reader enjoyed your different types of works. Also, impressed by your long continuing kink filled chaptered fic! Marvellous.

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Thank you, thank you!