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I am a bit spammy today, sorry about that. I will attempt to stop soon. In the meantime: I think I'm in dudeslash withdrawal. The trouble with being such a hopeless monofan is that, barring a tiny handful of specific stories, porn involving fandoms I've moved on from ceases to do it for me. Emotional porn won't usually work anymore, either. And if my current fandom is low on porn, my libido drops--which is so ridiculous and embarrassing but has happened many times now--and the reverse happens as well (I spent basically my entire four months in Glee fandom with a hand down my pants, which may be why it took me so long to snap out of it). And if it's low on one particular kind of porn, well, I no longer have access to that kind of porn until I change fandoms again. And the same, again, for emotional porn; whatever type is available in my fandom is what I have to work with.

Now, I've become much more polymorphously fannish over the years about what I ship, but I was into m/m slash years before I had any interest in sex (I voraciously reread basically every single [series of] children's book[s] about ~boyhood friends~ that has ever existed in all of time, including one that was actually about brothers which in retrospect: yikes--but it was all very innocently presexual at the time. Except possibly The Whipping Boy, I think that was sexual), and it's pretty much my first instinct in any new fandom, and basically: I need it. For my health. And now I'm in Doctor Who fandom, and y'all, it is just not out there. "It" being both "fanfic at all, in the quantities/of the quality to which I have become accustomed" and "m/m slash."

Of course this is complicated by my own bizarre OT3 fixation, where for the first time in my entire fandom history I actually mean the "OT" part and can't stand [Amy/][Rory/][Eleven] where either Amy or Rory are left out, and ideally not Eleven either. But I still need the m/m sex and connection, because apparently what happens when I go without for a long period of time--and thus I finally come to the POINT of this post--is that the dudeslash center of my brain becomes overexcitable, and I find myself watching an MST3K episode in which Mike and the bots are making (wholly supported by the text) gay jokes about two not-horrifically-ugly dudes, and then I find myself thinking, hmmmmmm, actually, that could totally work for me, and then I find myself drinking more.

So basically what I'm saying here is that I really need to get cracking on this threesome fic I've just started if I ever want to be able to watch "Puma Man" again. (Not that that's what prompted this post, it just stands out in my mind as a potential danger.) (It was "Overdrawn at the Memory Bank," which is how I know I have a problem.)

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But Doctor Who fandom is one of the biggest on the internet, across all genres! Have you checked out the Teaspoon?

ETA: I should say I don't ship the Doctor with companions, so for all I know there's no OT3 fic there! But I've seen people who post there blogging about Amy/Rory/Eleven, so I would hope there is some!

Edited 2011-05-31 06:24 (UTC)

New Who fandom since Eleven is really not that huge, surprisingly. At least not the fic part of it. I mean, it's not a *small* fandom, but going by the newsletter, if you look at fic that actually involves people from S5 forward, there's way less than I'd expect, and WAY less than in a lot of my past fandoms. And a lot of it is unreadable, of course. And of what remains, there's almost no OT3 fic--I have no idea why! Everyone seems to like it! And yet.

(My readability standards are like 85% about characterization, 15% actual writing quality otherwise. I don't care if it's good, I just want it to feel enough like them that I can enjoy it as fanfic. Sadly this still rules out so, so much.)

... Yeah, maybe I'm looking in the wrong places, but too much of the internet where I hang out is ALL NEW WHO ALL THE TIME, so finding the stuff I'm interested in (Classic Who slash) is actually a lot harder. I haven't seen the newest serieses so I deliberately avoid looking, but I'm surprised that there isn't anything out there that perks your interest.

Maybe it's one of those things where if you're looking for it, there's never enough, and if you don't want it, there's way too much...

Well, compared to Classic Who, it's quite active--but compared to most fandoms I've been in, there's startlingly little fanfic, at least that's at all readable. I mean, if I wanted to read anything, about any New Who characters ever, no matter how crappy it was, I'd be set! But, well. And there's almost no Amy/Rory/Eleven fic, despite a lot of people seeming to like it, that's the real problem. If I wanted Amy/Eleven or Doctor/River I might be able to scrape by. (And really, there just isn't much, relatively. It's a smallish fandom.)

So, this is my tragedy. It is very tragic.

Who doesn't ship those dudes from Pumamen though? :P

Okay, I admit, I don't actually mind thinking "hmmmm" when watching that MST3K episode. (Except for how Vadinho deserves SO MUCH BETTER than Tony.) But others could be far more perilous!