Talk:Sex Pollen
Is there a link for the poison ivy story that refers to 'sex pollen'? I think it would be great if there was some citation. --rache 01:44, 30 September 2008 (UTC)
- I can definitively locate one issue where this happens (in the Animated Universe tie-in comic books) and I know it happens in some form in the Contagion story arc, but I'm hoping someone else is a bigger fan of her than me and knows more specifics. LC 01:52, 30 September 2008 (UTC)
- Also the one in Fugitive (I believe) where Ivy gets Superman to drape himself over her, and Batman has to demonstrate he wears Superman's class ring in his boxers. OH WAIT THAT'S ALL OF THEM. But you know the one, drawn by Jim Lee. --Betty 04:06, 30 September 2008 (UTC)
I always thought "sex pollen" was a euphemism for the Darkovan kireseth flower pollen, which the "ghost-winds" carry all over the (inhabited) areas of the planet, causing madness in humans & animals, including a great deal of uncontrolled lust. Kireseth pollen also activated latent telepathic powers, and enhanced active ones.
(That was me. --Elfwreck. Not sure how to sign these things.)
- Use the little squiggle button that's the second from the right on the bar of buttons on top of the edit box! Four tildes inserted manually will do it too, as will three, but that will omit the date. --Betty 04:06, 30 September 2008 (UTC)
With regards to other names for sex pollen, I have seen the use of "fuck-or-die" and considered adding that as a "see also", but I'm not sure what is acceptable use of swearing for this wiki. (So, while my thoughts started here, I'm also wondering what is acceptable for all articles, eg. the use of "slut" for the abrv. GSF, Group Slut Fic). I know that in fandom on LiveJournal there is complete freedom to use that language in official terms, and in the interest of accuracy and full disclosure, I'd have to go with using them too, but perhaps fanlore would prefer some censorship, eg. f*ck-or-die, or Group Sl*t Fic? --Stepps 01:19, 1 October 2008 (UTC)
- Ah yes, fuck-or-die! The larger umbrella under which fall so many wonderful devices. *g* Definitely needs an entry. And I was just thinking about doing an entry for GSF as well. --LC 01:21, 1 October 2008 (UTC)
- I can't say that fuck-or-die is a term that my fandoms have used much (HP and bandom), but GSF def is, but in a more evolved form (usually the abrv is for Group SLASH Fic, and it relates to poly relationship more than just group sex). So, I guess censorship is not a concern? --Stepps 08:56, 1 October 2008 (UTC)
- I am all for full disclosure. Use the full term w/o asterisks in titles and on pages; I'll make sure we have somewhere on the wiki a language warning. --Hope 09:35, 1 October 2008 (UTC)
- Good to know! Thanks for the heads up. --Stepps 21:26, 1 October 2008 (UTC)
Renaming the Sex-Pollen-y Fandoms section
In the discussion of this page's featured article nomination, it has been suggested to rename this section. "Trends within specific fandoms" is one suggestion. I think I've also seen "Fandom specific tropes" used on other pages. Do editors have a preference?
ETA: "Fandom-Specific Justifications for Sex Pollen" was also mentioned.--Auntags (talk) 00:14, 7 December 2022 (UTC)
- I do like "Fandom-Specific Justifications for Sex Pollen", but I think any of them would work well, and probably better than what we have now. -- Kingstoken (talk) 16:08, 7 December 2022 (UTC)
- I think you could argue that any fandom with alien flora lends itself to this trope (I just added a fic example from a small podcast fandom where this trope makes its appearance via alien flora) which would therefore include... basically any fandom with space/aliens? And that's a lot of possible fandoms. On that basis my preference is for "Trends within specific fandoms" (or "Fandom-specific tropes") since it means that we do feature fandoms which have enough works of this type to display a trend, rather than any fandom that can justify the use of sex pollen. --enchantedsleeper (talk) 00:29, 8 December 2022 (UTC)
- This is a non-specific vote for a title that makes it clear “here are some reasonings used within specific fandoms, that don’t necessarily map to fandoms in which sex pollen is a common trope”, because the section is interesting in how it mentions specific episodes in specific shows, but it doesn’t necessarily match fandoms in which sex pollen is common. Joanna R (talk) 04:57, 8 December 2022 (UTC)
- I agree with Joanna, but personally, I'd vote for 'Fandom-specific Tropes'. SecurityBreach (talk) 02:10, 10 December 2022 (UTC)
- This is a non-specific vote for a title that makes it clear “here are some reasonings used within specific fandoms, that don’t necessarily map to fandoms in which sex pollen is a common trope”, because the section is interesting in how it mentions specific episodes in specific shows, but it doesn’t necessarily match fandoms in which sex pollen is common. Joanna R (talk) 04:57, 8 December 2022 (UTC)
- I think you could argue that any fandom with alien flora lends itself to this trope (I just added a fic example from a small podcast fandom where this trope makes its appearance via alien flora) which would therefore include... basically any fandom with space/aliens? And that's a lot of possible fandoms. On that basis my preference is for "Trends within specific fandoms" (or "Fandom-specific tropes") since it means that we do feature fandoms which have enough works of this type to display a trend, rather than any fandom that can justify the use of sex pollen. --enchantedsleeper (talk) 00:29, 8 December 2022 (UTC)
Is sex pollen only a fic trope?
Asking here because I don't really want to go looking myself but... this article only seems to talk about fic, but there's no reason it couldn't be a trope for art or vids, right? Does anyone have any examples? -- Quaelegit (talk) 09:00, 11 December 2022 (UTC)
- I think it probably most common with fanfiction, but it definitively does have fanart featuring it. I found a little on Twitter by searching up Sex Pollen (warning: the art is nsfw, of course, haha):1 - 2 - 3. I was surprised how few tweets actually featured the word "sex pollen," though... Patchlamb (talk) 20:44, 11 December 2022 (UTC)