Kink Bingo

[kindkit]

In a moment of optimism, I signed up for kink_bingo, even though I'm not really a kink writer as most people would define it. But I'd looked through the list of assignable kinks and found a lot that I do enjoy in stories. Plus, I thought it might be a bit of an incentive to start writing again.

Unfortunately, I got unlucky with my assignment. No fewer than five squares are major squicks for me.






(The major squicks, incidentally, are the two "humiliation" squares and "caning," "whipping/flogging," and "spanking/paddling." I'm also not that keen on "prostitution," "bloodplay," and "masters doms slaves & subs." Why couldn't I have gotten "ageplay," "authority figures," "consent play," "mind control/amnesia," "rough sex," "service," "sleepy/unconscious," "tattoos/tattooing," "tentacles," "virginity/celibacy," "worship," or "writing on the body" instead?)

There are things on my card I can write, but getting a bingo would be tough.

Incidentally, even if you're not participating in kink_bingo, I highly recommend kink_wiki, if only to see what fannish image has been chosen to illustrate each kink.

Comments

[kindkit]

kink_bingo does have some rules about how far you can stretch the definitions. As damned_colonial has already said, vampires are fine (indeed, I think vampires are a big part of the kink), but "whipping" does have to mean one person hitting another with a whip.

I'll do anything to get out of writing kink

I tend to think of myself as emphatically NOT a kink writer, but after looking over the list, I decided it's more that I'm not a BDSM writer. Although even that varies--I'm fine with writing/reading bondage, but I am intensely squicked by hitting, by 24/7 d/s stuff, by humiliation, etc. (I don't mean to imply that those kinks are Wrong, of course, and there's plenty of stuff I enjoy reading/writing about that's squicky to others.)

[bethbethbeth]

My problem is that I often find myself laughing when confronted by kink (in stories or real life), which...I'm sure is "doing it wrong."

Attitudes change, though. I used to be totally and (I thought) irrevocably squicked by sexual humiliation, but apparently I've decided that Severus Snape occasionally is turned on by *being* humiliated, and if he is, who am I to quibble about his preferences?

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