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I'm coining a new term... unless it's already been coined, in which case I'm spreading the love.
Emotional smut (I'm pretty sure I heard this somewhere and it probably has a different definition than what I'm going to give it) - Laying on thick emotional angst to the point of turning a character or characters out of character and, on occasion, making the reader want to vomit.
A good example of this is gen/ freindship stories where the two guys are comforting each other like they were women, making you wonder if the story was mislabeled and should have been slash. Stories where a normally tough character is crying like a baby without suffeciant reason to do so unless they were never tough to begin with. I've run across pre-slash stories where the guys are less girly than in some gen fics. So if I ever use this term, you now know what I'm talking about.
Emotional smut (I'm pretty sure I heard this somewhere and it probably has a different definition than what I'm going to give it) - Laying on thick emotional angst to the point of turning a character or characters out of character and, on occasion, making the reader want to vomit.
A good example of this is gen/ freindship stories where the two guys are comforting each other like they were women, making you wonder if the story was mislabeled and should have been slash. Stories where a normally tough character is crying like a baby without suffeciant reason to do so unless they were never tough to begin with. I've run across pre-slash stories where the guys are less girly than in some gen fics. So if I ever use this term, you now know what I'm talking about.
