A fandom and shipping phenomena, most of them based on Livejournal. A
Kink Meme is where a user anonymously posts both a
pairing and a kink. Another user then anonymously fills this request with either art or
Fan Fic.
While Kink Memes, true to their name, usually contain plenty of smut, it is usually permissible to request
Fluff or drama fic with no sex as well.
The Kink Meme can have examples of:
Examples:
- The largest known kink Meme on the Internet is the Phoenix Wright Kink Meme. It can be found here.
- Axis Powers Hetalia has one, and it's kind of infamous/controversial for having people requesting sexualized (and anthropomorphized, of course) versions of real-life atrocities and tragedies.
- A large list of kink memes is available here, although not all of them are still active.
- Usually some aspect of the Heroes fandom has a Kink Meme going on. They're surprisingly common.
- Star Trek has its own kink meme. It's... well, it's very long. 15 parts, each of about fifty pages or so. That's a lot of prompts, and an astonishing volume of porn. Astonishingly, the meme appears to invert Sturgeon's Law - 90% of the fic is of above average quality, and at least half of it is really quite amazingly well-written. It's also been responsible, directly or indirectly, for a surprising amount of fic in the STXI fic communities.
- Due to Real Life smacking the mod in the face, it has now been closed to further entries. Its successor can be found here.
- The Watchmen kink meme has spawned some astonishing fiction, including an amazing, believable zombie apocalypse AU.
- The Inglourious Basterds kink meme gets a special mention, because Eli Roth, one of the actors in that movie, found it. Then promptly linked to it on his Twitter. Then forwarded it to Quentin Tarantino. Amusingly, their reaction amounted to 'wtf, the Bear Jew always tops'. Omar Doom probably reached for the Brain Bleach, though. And Christoph Waltz's face must be seen to be believed.◊
- Note that this didn't really deter the fangirls: the RPF kink meme went up the same day.
