LOL surely you knew as soon as you mentioned numbers I would be pulling out the spreadsheet.
It's hotter to a lot of us if the characters interior lives are explored.
That is definitely true for me. Of course, I'm the person who read the lead-up and post-coital pillow talk for MANY SPN kinkmeme fills that were about kinks I wasn't even into, just because the premise sounded emotionally interesting. On the other hand, if it's not emotionally interesting at all, then I get impatient with that part even if they are my kinks.
However, I think you can absolutely get that interiority while also devoting a lot more than 30% of the fic to porn. It just kind of depends on your set up, and how much of the story is happening DURING the porn as opposed to BEFORE the porn.
And I think there's also the thing where we assume the porn is the narrative climax as well as the other kind, and sometimes that's just not true. In one of the fics I was looking at, after the sex, the fic has another 20 or 25% to go, because the sex is just the catalyst for what the story was actually about. In fairness, that was the one that I felt least sure about calling porn in the first place.
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It's hotter to a lot of us if the characters interior lives are explored.
That is definitely true for me. Of course, I'm the person who read the lead-up and post-coital pillow talk for MANY SPN kinkmeme fills that were about kinks I wasn't even into, just because the premise sounded emotionally interesting. On the other hand, if it's not emotionally interesting at all, then I get impatient with that part even if they are my kinks.
However, I think you can absolutely get that interiority while also devoting a lot more than 30% of the fic to porn. It just kind of depends on your set up, and how much of the story is happening DURING the porn as opposed to BEFORE the porn.
And I think there's also the thing where we assume the porn is the narrative climax as well as the other kind, and sometimes that's just not true. In one of the fics I was looking at, after the sex, the fic has another 20 or 25% to go, because the sex is just the catalyst for what the story was actually about. In fairness, that was the one that I felt least sure about calling porn in the first place.