Springkink Mystery

[chomiji]

Too much has been going on in RL for me to take in much of springkink. But now that I look at it (briefly - 'cause I'm at work), the vast majority of stories seem to be about Kingdom Hearts (!) or Transformers (!!!).

Aren't these a video game and a rather simplistic kids' cartoon, respectively? Can someone explain why these might be so popular for the springkink treatment?

And here I thought that my much-expanded repertoire of manga knowledge would enable me to appreciate this stuff more effectively this time around ... .

Comments

[sanada.livejournal.com]

I'm surprised that there are so many fics for Digital Devil Saga and Persona... I thought the MegaTen games were too difficult to be popular! I'm glad that Shadow Hearts II is getting some love, though, because any video game where you can beat Rasputin with a frozen tuna or collect gay porn to give to a tailor so he'll make dresses for your battle loli is BRILLIANT in my mind.

Yeah, someone on my friends list draws and writes lots of Transformers slash... which I try to ignore. Sometimes she makes the robots human, which makes slightly more sense. Slightly.

Kiss Players? o__O I just googled it. Wow, two kinks in one... Japan never ceases to amaze me. Somewhere, an otaku is getting off to this.

I've made a point of staying far, far away from cartoon fandom. The first fanfic I read upon getting my first dial-up internet in middle school was an NC-17 Dinosaucers piece featuring oral and anal sex between a man and a space brontosaurus. *sob* Way to rape my childhood, internet.

I know there are plenty of people who write Disney character smut, but they seem to be a separate fandom from the KH people.

[chomiji]

(Somehow, in light of this discussion, the rather tense talk I was just having on "why slash" seems awfully normal and tame ... at least my fantasies don't need to be turned into fuzzy critters or robots before I can enjoy them!)