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[rivkat]

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Bonus meme: If there is any question you would like to ask me about any one of my fics, then go ahead! What I meant by a particular line, why I chose that characterization, what I was listening to as I wrote, what crack I was taking and where you can get some...anything. Anything you might like to know about how I wrote a fic, I shall do my best to answer.

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[runpunkrun]

Oh, yay. I just saved ten dollars on the S3 SV DVDs. Procrastination DOES pay. Thank you.

Now, I will ask you a question. Hey. I'm going to ask two questions. Tellingly, they both involve sex.

Whenever I reread "Skin Deep," I always expect a longer, more detailed sex scene after Clark's happily a boy again, yet I never get one. Why did you choose to treat that as just one more sexual encounter in an established relationship rather than another first time for Clark and Lex?

This is more morbid curiosity than anything, but in "Switch," what's up with so much of the sex being interrupted by parental units? It's like they couldn't take off their pants without Lionel or Jonathan walking in on them. Poor kids.

[rivkat.livejournal.com]

Skin Deep: As I discussed above in this thread, I kept Lex mysterious more or less deliberately. In the first draft of the story, Lex rejected Clark after Clark switched back, mostly because of the lies (but a little bit because Lex didn't want to deal with being outed, though I don't think he said that in the story). But my dauntless beta reader mecurtin pointed out that I hadn't set that up properly; Lex should have been more passive-aggressive about Kal's secrets throughout the story for that ending to work, instead of acting like he was happy to take whatever Kal was giving. I saved the scene, because I think it's pretty powerful, but Mary Ellen was right that it didn't work for the story I wrote.

Anyway, part of the reason the sex scene is short is because it's pinch-hitting for that older ending. (Not an elegant reason, but at least an honest one.) The rest is that they both separately knew who Kal was, so it really wasn't the first time for either of them, and unlike Lenore's wonderful "That Old Schizophrenic Jealousy," I wasn't focusing on the difference between what Clark & Kal could do for Lex. Arguably Clark would be more interested in what sex was like as a guy than he appears, but both of them have just been through the emotional wringer and I was looking for affirmation of the connection rather than something more extensive.

But maybe I should write a coda in which Lex instructs Clark in the joys of hot man on man action.

Switch: That's easy -- it's farce, and parental interruption is great comedy material. Anyway, it's not all the time: (1) Lex blows Clark, and just after, Lionel walks in; (2) Lex blows Clark in the bathroom and nobody walks in; (3) Clark blows Lex when they're alone in the mansion; (4) frottage in the underground lab, again uninterrupted; and (5) the only true interruption, Jonathan coming down into the underground lab. You could argue that (1) also counts as an interruption because Lex doesn't get to get off, which he might have if the encounter had continued, but I actually don't think he would have because Clark would have started to freak out. But he would have wanted to, so maybe we should count that as interruption mid-sex rather than immediately post-sex.

I am embarrassed that I could produce that list off the top of my head.

And, wouldn't that be "prurient" curiousity, not "morbid" curiousity?

[runpunkrun]

But maybe I should write a coda in which Lex instructs Clark in the joys of hot man on man action.

Oh, it would be delicious if you did. I do understand your motives (and reasons) for the short sex scene. Clark and Lex had had a lot of sex by that time, no matter what body Clark was in, and the m/m sex was more of a reunion than a first time for them. As it stands, it reads more like an emotional coupling rather than a physical one, which actually is satisfying in its own way since all the Lex/Kal sex was presented as being driven by physical attraction without emotional desire. Which is to say, both Clark and Lex had to pretend Kal was just some girl, not Lex's best friend. At the end, they don't have to pretend anymore. But I still wouldn't say no to a sexy coda.

And, wouldn't that be "prurient" curiousity, not "morbid" curiousity?

I suppose it could go either way, depending on how depraved I'm feeling. *g*