Calle Dybedahl
| Fan | |
|---|---|
| Name: | Calle Dybedahl |
| Alias(es): | Calle, cdybedahl |
| Type: | author, moderator |
| Fandoms: | Babylon 5, Blake's 7, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Pitch Perfect, Stargate SG1, Warehouse 13, & many others |
| Communities: | Lysator |
| Other: | |
| URL: | Fanfiction@cyberPoMo; cdybedahl@LJ; cdybedahl@DW; cdybedahl@AO3 |
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Calle Dybedahl is a slash and femslash fan fiction writer whose work has appeared in fanzines and online. He joined online fandom in 1992, and posted his first fanfiction in 1997.[1] He is the founder and long-term moderator of Lysator, the main Blake's 7 mailing list.[2]
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I clicked on a link to a Buffy/Willow story this morning, and discovered to my disappointment that it was a BDSM sexslave story with Willow topping Buffy.
This isn't the first time I've had this thought.
I'm a total fan of slave stories. (As should be obvious. *sigh*)
I'm a total fan of BDSM porn. If this story had been about two OFC, I know I would have read it with more enjoyment.
We know Willow has the capacity to be a leather-and-rubber wearing BDSM Top, because we've seen her do it rather well in the Wishverse. And we know Buffy can be a bottom, because we've seen her bottom to Spike, though that was post-Death Buffy (and as it happens, Joss leaves it fairly open as to which of them is bottoming to each other or if they take turns, but I'm fairly convinced it's Buffy) If this story had been set in the Wishverse... or, oh hell...
Buffy and Willow aren't in character. They don't sound like themselves. They sound like any two women in a girl-girl BDSM porn story. And it doesn't work. It doesn't work for me in either direction: I can't pretend it's just another BDSM porn story, because it's Buffy and Willow, and I know them. And yet they're not acting like themselves. At all.
I mean, they are, sort of, at the beginning of the story. But then they're not.
Using tropes from porn can work - but it would have to be tropes that it was appropriate and believable that the characters would have picked up on as part of their daily reading. Maybe Willow does surf Internet porn sites when everyone else thinks she's doing research. Maybe Buffy does too. But nothing about their characters suggests that they do - whereas for Bodie and Doyle or Murphy (for example) you could pretty much take it as read that they'd all read large quantities of jerkoff books. [3]
References
- ^ "AO3: cdybedahl: profile". Archived from the original on 2017-03-06. Retrieved 17 September 2015.
- ^ "The Blake's 7 Mailing List FAQ". Archived from the original on 2021-06-12. Retrieved 12 February 2011.
- ^ Jane Carnall in an Insanejournal post dated October 31, 2004