Just Lean Into The Wrongness, Let It Fuel Things

[redbrunja]

WHY HAS FANDOM NOT WRITTEN A ZILLION SEXYTIME FICS FOR JANE/ROCHESTER FROM THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF JANE EYRE? AM I GOING TO HAVE TO WRITE THEM MYSELF?

I skipped ahead a bit, before committing to watching this webseries, so I saw the more recent videos where Rochester and Jane are being, you know, epically cute together, and then I went back to the beginning and last night I got to this episode:

And HOLY FUCK, HIS SHIRTSLEEVES ARE ROLLED HALF-UP AND HIS TIE IS UNDONE AND HIS TOP BUTTONS ARE UNBUTTONED AND I DIDN'T EVEN NOTICE UNTIL THE SECOND VIEWING BECAUSE I WAS TOO BUSY STARING AT HIS LEFT FOREARM AND THAT HALF-OBSCURED TATTOO.

Comments

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Thanks for your response. I bet the small fandom size combined with the creators being active combined with waiting for the other shoe to drop is contibuting to the lack of smut, but it still sucks for me personally. And as I mentioned in my recent post, I had several 'heroine is a virgin!' fictional situation hit me, and I'm just like, 'ugh, no.'

[fairest1.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I get it. I'm coming from the angle that I just don't think Jane has had sex (though between the century she was born in and her medical training, I doubt she's a complete innocent, just inexperienced), and you're seeing her as the umpteenth heroine you've encountered who happened to make that personal decision. It compounds things. Just try to take a step back, breathe, and accept Jane as an individual rather than a trend. Or write your own smut, if so inclined, though futurefic is preferable due to impending doom.

I've been there. Don't expect me to have a rational response to Wybie from the Coraline movie . . . *smothers urge to kill fictional character*

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

and you're seeing her as the umpteenth heroine you've encountered who happened to make that personal decision.

Yep. Or who had worldbuilding that make that basically logically dictated.

Or write your own smut, if so inclined, though futurefic is preferable due to impending doom.

Oh, no, I would just run right at the lying and controlling subtext of Rochester and use it to up the sexiness factor.

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[fairest1.livejournal.com]

Well, there's the fact that -- ah, screw being vague. RANDOM PEOPLE READING THIS WHO DON'T WANT SPOILERS STOP NOW if they go with Rochester offering to let her be his mistress after finding out he's married it comes across differently if they've had sex prior to the offer. Huh, there's another factor that probably lead to the lack of smut -- fandom in general loves Jane and just wants to wrap her in a fuzzy blanket and give her tea, and would want to avoid a fic development that would just lead to her feeling even more horrible once the truth came out.

BTW, the bonus videos they did for the kickstarter have been specified to not be canon, effectively official crackfic. Which, oddly, seems to have given some authors more freedom in writing about them, so you could do something interesting with the kickstarterverse drunk!Jane with her copy of 50 Shades of Grey.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

fandom in general loves Jane and just wants to wrap her in a fuzzy blanket and give her tea, and would want to avoid a fic development that would just lead to her feeling even more horrible once the truth came out.


Clearly, they're nicer than I am.