Magnificent!
Oct. 3rd, 2004 12:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jlhSo all the talk about Anne Rice and those dreadful Sleeping Beauty books got me thinking about a particular trope that I've noticed both in fic and in published erotica that I've been wondering about.
We are nearly always in the mind of a new sub, in BDSM erotica. And there's a moment when their dom takes them to some sort of party or gathering or club or even over to their dom buddy's house to sort of show them off. Now, at some point during this gathering, either when the sub is unveiled in all their leather or whatever clad glory, or when they've taken some kind of punishment, or beat out the other subs in a don't come / make the dom come contest or whatever the Great Event is, one or more of the other doms says to our Main Dom, "Gerald, she's magnificent!" and then asks to use them in some way.
Now. Is every new sub always magnificent—in other words, fresh meat syndrome? Is it just because books only get written about the magnificent ones because otherwise the book would be uninteresting and full of envy? Is every sub magnificent in their own unique way? And why is it that the actual word "magnificent" is nearly always used? What is up with that?
Seriously, I'm just wondering. It's not like I'm planning to have Dom!Harry bring Sub!Hermione over to Dom!Ginny's house to play with Sub!Draco or anything. (Um, well, that would be a sequel to Swingers, which is why I'm never going to write a sequel to Swingers as then it would be just a really boring BDSM two couple fic that anyone could write.)
So? Any thoughts?
We are nearly always in the mind of a new sub, in BDSM erotica. And there's a moment when their dom takes them to some sort of party or gathering or club or even over to their dom buddy's house to sort of show them off. Now, at some point during this gathering, either when the sub is unveiled in all their leather or whatever clad glory, or when they've taken some kind of punishment, or beat out the other subs in a don't come / make the dom come contest or whatever the Great Event is, one or more of the other doms says to our Main Dom, "Gerald, she's magnificent!" and then asks to use them in some way.
Now. Is every new sub always magnificent—in other words, fresh meat syndrome? Is it just because books only get written about the magnificent ones because otherwise the book would be uninteresting and full of envy? Is every sub magnificent in their own unique way? And why is it that the actual word "magnificent" is nearly always used? What is up with that?
Seriously, I'm just wondering. It's not like I'm planning to have Dom!Harry bring Sub!Hermione over to Dom!Ginny's house to play with Sub!Draco or anything. (Um, well, that would be a sequel to Swingers, which is why I'm never going to write a sequel to Swingers as then it would be just a really boring BDSM two couple fic that anyone could write.)
So? Any thoughts?
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Date: 2004-10-04 06:19 am (UTC)The funny thing is that the sub is only magnificent in their subjugation. It isn't that they are, generally, incredibly beautiful or have an amazing body or whatever, but that they are a really good sub. But below this comment there is something interesting about being a natural that I think comes closer to what is going on.