Seriously, How Did This Happen?

[masterofmidgets]

I was thinking earlier...I distinctly remember coming to school one day last year and saying to Envy "Oh my god, Kristen, you wouldn't believe what I read last night, it was this story where Ed got injected with something that made him pregnant by Roy isn't that insane?!" 

How on earth did I go, in less than a year, from /that/ to a person who accepts without batting an eye muffin batter used as a personal lubricant, incestuous clonesex threesomes, and every confrontation in Naruto being the negotiation of complex sexual politics? Not to mention bizarre AUs, nonsensical yet still somehow good crossovers, and various other guilty pleasures (including but not limited to Naruto-in-heat, Zack/Cloud ghost-sex, the random-drunken-hook-up, twincest, insanely-sappy -and/or-violent-love-confessions, etc).

Also I find myself looking back at some of the earliest sex scenes I read, that at the time I thought were incredibly risque, and thinking 'wow, this is so mild and inexplicit and innocent, wtf? Where's the excessive description? Where's the bondage? Where's the sex toys? Where's the inappropriate substances used as lube? WHERE IS THE SEX?'

 ...my standards have changed so much.

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[telyanofcelore.livejournal.com]

It could be worse. You could've been a naive reader of Jane Austen fanfiction, where the most risque thing that happens is a kiss in a carriage *shockhorror* and then suddenly your friends begin babbling in a most curious way and you read to find out what they are talking about, and soon start thinking "Oh. A threesome. So Done. Now, where's some past/future self fics? Or bonding?" And violence - you didn't even MENTION the violence. My perspective on how much death/torment is allowable has shifted unalterably.