I was hurt, until I realized that the reviewer was probably just very attached to the young!Sesshoumaru portion - the shift was too much, too early.
*nods* That certainly sounds plausible. I was just floored by the reaction folks had to Inuyasha and Kagome mending fences in Fleeting - I knew it would be somewhat controversial, just considering I was on a cracking good roll with the shock back then, but I never expected the visceral nature of the reactions I received. But the situation I wrote about is one everyone approaches differently, and one that's colored by everyone's separate feelings and experiences. I think any time you mix emotion into a work is when it becomes a minefield - there's no such thing as an objective emotion.
I also think that whenever you put sex into the mix, you're automatically amping up the risk that your readers won't take a liking to it. You have the extremes of "no sex until marriage", all the way to "first date sex is the best", lol. When you start putting kink into that? O.o Good luck!
That's why I'm pretty relieved no one's ever said anything about my citrusy stuff. I know its on the tame end of the spectrum, but still. It's something that's so easy to take personally, especially if you're wearing the main character as an avatar. I liked the examples in the article they gave, though, about helping make the kinkier stuff more believable if it was from the woman's POV - especially the whole rape fetish thing. I'm curious to read that scene now, even though rape fetish is way up there on my personal list of DNW.
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*nods* That certainly sounds plausible. I was just floored by the reaction folks had to Inuyasha and Kagome mending fences in Fleeting - I knew it would be somewhat controversial, just considering I was on a cracking good roll with the shock back then, but I never expected the visceral nature of the reactions I received. But the situation I wrote about is one everyone approaches differently, and one that's colored by everyone's separate feelings and experiences. I think any time you mix emotion into a work is when it becomes a minefield - there's no such thing as an objective emotion.
I also think that whenever you put sex into the mix, you're automatically amping up the risk that your readers won't take a liking to it. You have the extremes of "no sex until marriage", all the way to "first date sex is the best", lol. When you start putting kink into that? O.o Good luck!
That's why I'm pretty relieved no one's ever said anything about my citrusy stuff. I know its on the tame end of the spectrum, but still. It's something that's so easy to take personally, especially if you're wearing the main character as an avatar. I liked the examples in the article they gave, though, about helping make the kinkier stuff more believable if it was from the woman's POV - especially the whole rape fetish thing. I'm curious to read that scene now, even though rape fetish is way up there on my personal list of DNW.