META: This is not a watersports story
Jun. 23rd, 2011 01:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ysobelEver since I got a particular image in my head, I have been going back and forth on whether to write it as a story or write about it as meta babble. As a story, it would have been original fiction, which is allowed in the kink_bingo rules, but I personally feel weird doing original fiction for something that has been firmly in the fandom slot of my brain; plus, I wasn't sure I could pull it off.
As a disclaimer before I start, watersports is not a kink that I share, or that I find it easy to get into the mindset of someone who does like it. This isn't to say that I think the kink is in any way wrong, nor that people that enjoy watersports are in any way weird. I respect it as a kink in its own right. It is just the kink version of mushrooms for me: I know that people enjoy mushrooms, find them yummy, etc, and more power to them, but I can't personally eat them, and I don't tend towards writing fungophiles.
With that said, on with the babble!
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So I got my kink_bingo card, and one of the squares was 'watersports'. And of course with the way kink_bingo works, there is no absolute requirement to do any particular kink: each square is involved in three to five bingos (for all squares, one horizontal line, one vertical line, blackout; squares along the midlines can be used for + pattern; squares along the diagonals can be used for a diagonal line or for X pattern), but there are fifteen ways of making a bingo, which provides plenty of opportunity to make a bingo without using one particular square.
And yet, within a day or three I had a bunny that would not go away.
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The very very general image was this:
Werewolves.
Territory marking.
Need I say more? ...okay, yes, probabl.
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The specific image was this:
...well, first, I should probably 'splain, or at least sum up. The characters involved are original characters of mine, and have not really appeared much of anywhere outside my head and my written-in-longhand notebooks. Jack is a seller of old and out-of-print books, and happens to also be a werewolf, the rather reluctant son of the pack alpha. Will is a graduate student of folklore, and a bibliophile, and falls in love with Jack long before he learns what Jack is (which happens by way of other pack members dragging Will into pack politics).
And so I got this mental image of Will in the shower, needing to pee, and taking the expedient route of peeing in the shower rather than getting out and drying off and using the toilet properly and then getting back in. And he's thinking about Jack and about Jack being a werewolf; and his train of thought goes approximately like this: "Dogs pee on things to mark their territory. Werewolves are sort of like dogs. Do they also...?" and so he closes his eyes and pees on his feet, imagining that it's Jack there in the shower with him, marking him, claiming him. And he knows full well that even if the fantasy were reality it wouldn't really work as a way of marking territory, since it would just be washed off again, but he would know about it, and he would remember.
Will finds this image, and the concept of Jack marking Will as his, pretty damn hot.
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Problem is, I don't think I could do it justice, not in context of a story. Especially not in context of original fiction, where there's so much backstory that couldn't really be shoehorned in.
But the image -- a werewolf's partner fantasizing about territory marking via urine -- stuck with me.
I tried toying with it, to see if I could manipulate it into being a fandom-oriented story. I do have several fandoms that canonically have werewolves -- Buffy, Supernatural, Blood Ties (the tv-verse only explicitly shows were-jaguars but there are other weres implied, including a wolf; the book-verse explicitly shows werewolves), and, though I haven't ever written it, the Anita Blake books -- and of course pretty much any fandom can be twisted to have werewolves.
(As a side note, the unfortunate side effect of writing that last half sentence is that my brain immediately tried to find non-werewolf-able fandoms; and now I have mental images of, like, My Little Ponywerewolves and were!Teletubbies and blue Smurfy werewolves and werecarebears and the like. Now you can have those images too! You're welcome.)
But the story idea didn't want to be matched to any canon characters. So it was either Jack and Will, or nothing at all.
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So, to sum up: speaking as someone who isn't a watersports person? Watersports used as werewolf marking (or fantasies thereof) is still a very nice image.
As a disclaimer before I start, watersports is not a kink that I share, or that I find it easy to get into the mindset of someone who does like it. This isn't to say that I think the kink is in any way wrong, nor that people that enjoy watersports are in any way weird. I respect it as a kink in its own right. It is just the kink version of mushrooms for me: I know that people enjoy mushrooms, find them yummy, etc, and more power to them, but I can't personally eat them, and I don't tend towards writing fungophiles.
With that said, on with the babble!
#
So I got my kink_bingo card, and one of the squares was 'watersports'. And of course with the way kink_bingo works, there is no absolute requirement to do any particular kink: each square is involved in three to five bingos (for all squares, one horizontal line, one vertical line, blackout; squares along the midlines can be used for + pattern; squares along the diagonals can be used for a diagonal line or for X pattern), but there are fifteen ways of making a bingo, which provides plenty of opportunity to make a bingo without using one particular square.
And yet, within a day or three I had a bunny that would not go away.
#
The very very general image was this:
Werewolves.
Territory marking.
Need I say more? ...okay, yes, probabl.
#
The specific image was this:
...well, first, I should probably 'splain, or at least sum up. The characters involved are original characters of mine, and have not really appeared much of anywhere outside my head and my written-in-longhand notebooks. Jack is a seller of old and out-of-print books, and happens to also be a werewolf, the rather reluctant son of the pack alpha. Will is a graduate student of folklore, and a bibliophile, and falls in love with Jack long before he learns what Jack is (which happens by way of other pack members dragging Will into pack politics).
And so I got this mental image of Will in the shower, needing to pee, and taking the expedient route of peeing in the shower rather than getting out and drying off and using the toilet properly and then getting back in. And he's thinking about Jack and about Jack being a werewolf; and his train of thought goes approximately like this: "Dogs pee on things to mark their territory. Werewolves are sort of like dogs. Do they also...?" and so he closes his eyes and pees on his feet, imagining that it's Jack there in the shower with him, marking him, claiming him. And he knows full well that even if the fantasy were reality it wouldn't really work as a way of marking territory, since it would just be washed off again, but he would know about it, and he would remember.
Will finds this image, and the concept of Jack marking Will as his, pretty damn hot.
#
Problem is, I don't think I could do it justice, not in context of a story. Especially not in context of original fiction, where there's so much backstory that couldn't really be shoehorned in.
But the image -- a werewolf's partner fantasizing about territory marking via urine -- stuck with me.
I tried toying with it, to see if I could manipulate it into being a fandom-oriented story. I do have several fandoms that canonically have werewolves -- Buffy, Supernatural, Blood Ties (the tv-verse only explicitly shows were-jaguars but there are other weres implied, including a wolf; the book-verse explicitly shows werewolves), and, though I haven't ever written it, the Anita Blake books -- and of course pretty much any fandom can be twisted to have werewolves.
(As a side note, the unfortunate side effect of writing that last half sentence is that my brain immediately tried to find non-werewolf-able fandoms; and now I have mental images of, like, My Little Ponywerewolves and were!Teletubbies and blue Smurfy werewolves and werecarebears and the like. Now you can have those images too! You're welcome.)
But the story idea didn't want to be matched to any canon characters. So it was either Jack and Will, or nothing at all.
#
So, to sum up: speaking as someone who isn't a watersports person? Watersports used as werewolf marking (or fantasies thereof) is still a very nice image.