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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Women reading m/m smut is one of those things that's astonishingly common and almost never discussed. I used to know a lesbian who exclusively wrote X-Men m/m porn. She was still a lesbian, an old-school Park Slope lesbian. But it's a thing. I see the appeal myself, I just wish more of it was good.

I'm pretty sure my 14 yo writes smut on AO3. I never ever want to read it. Boundaries, people. [/quote]
Almost never discussed because it can be shamed like this. I’ve had conversations with my kid about fanfic - about authors taking an existing universe they love and reimagining some parts of it. Yes, sex can be part of it, even extreme situations like you describe.

Fun fact: NK Jemisin said in a NYT piece that she has a secret account under which she posts fanfic :-). [/quote]

Yeah ) a lot of authors do. A lot more got their start in fanfiction... Which is both an awesome and a terrible thing.

I write fanfiction for fun, but I don't write smut. I do like it when it's well-done, but so much is bad. I've talked to my kid about fanfiction, too, and about the internet. She sends me pieces she wants me to read (not smut, obviously), and the ones she doesn't want me to see? Are none of my business.

She is a damn good writer, though. I can't take credit for that. AO3 and her English teachers probably should.

One thing about AO3 that someone unfamiliar wouldn't know: authors tag their work with trigger warnings and search terms, so the risk of your teen accidentally reading they doesn't want to read is pretty low. I'm not a fan of this because I think reading "major character death" as a tag is a massive plot spoiler, but it's how the kids do it. [/quote]

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