Ok, "kink" definitely means something different in fanfic than my more generic/vanilla definition! (I just tried to read clockwork_hart1's Kendra/Drusilla fic written for femmeslash_kink or some site like that and - ah. ok. I'm starting to get it.
I am either very (willfully) sheltered or very dense.
My personal definition of 'dark' would be heavy angst/hopelessness/seriously dodgy ethical decisions.
That was/is pretty much mine as well: Willow in Bargaining and All the Way also come to mind. (then again I thought Flutie being eaten alive was pretty damn dark, but maybe that just falls under the heading of "horror". Or "shit just got real" at the very least.)
'dark' has increasingly come to mean noncon/dubcon/D/s/slavefic/tortureporn/etc.
So the terms "kink" and "dark" are sort of overlapping now, or is there any real difference?
Valyssia seems to write some VERY dark stuff - some of her stories have a list of warnings longer than my arm. (She's also the author of a story where Willow has buffy under her control and Buffy is her sexual slave that just shocked the hell out of me until I finally hit the back button.) And she's very highly regarded as an author. Different strokes.
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Date: 2013-11-14 04:34 am (UTC)I am either very (willfully) sheltered or very dense.
My personal definition of 'dark' would be heavy angst/hopelessness/seriously dodgy ethical decisions.
That was/is pretty much mine as well: Willow in Bargaining and All the Way also come to mind. (then again I thought Flutie being eaten alive was pretty damn dark, but maybe that just falls under the heading of "horror". Or "shit just got real" at the very least.)
'dark' has increasingly come to mean noncon/dubcon/D/s/slavefic/tortureporn/etc.
So the terms "kink" and "dark" are sort of overlapping now, or is there any real difference?
Valyssia seems to write some VERY dark stuff - some of her stories have a list of warnings longer than my arm. (She's also the author of a story where Willow has buffy under her control and Buffy is her sexual slave that just shocked the hell out of me until I finally hit the back button.) And she's very highly regarded as an author. Different strokes.