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This is why I have no time for the garbage take that fanfiction without smut is somehow superior to fanfiction with it. And I most often hear this from fellow authors complaining that their fics without smut don't reach the same audience or get the same feedback as those whose fics do contain smut.

The thing is, you could write 100k words as pure as the driven snow and you've no guarantee to come anywhere near the 5k of realness I just read while the blorbos fucked nasty in the backseat of their dead daddy's car still covered in grave dirt while someone else's blood is in their mouths.

Wincest is particularly good for this, as an example. Those boys are so hopeless at expressing themselves unless it's through silence or violence that sex is the perfect medium. It's also unexplored in canon, so it can be whatever we want it to be

Sure, PWP is a real and valid thing, but smut isn't only PWP. It can be a legitimate driving force of character development and an incredible vehicle for character study. Sex is such an intimate engagement; exploring a character during and around that act is ripe with potential.

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