Pet peeve; when someone cares more about having fun writing the story than whether their readers have fun reading it.

But Nequ, don't you experiment all the time?

Yes, I do. With a)new things that happen in TFs, and b) new ways to tell the story. I try to avoid self-indulgent wankery. In fact, I've never had any, ahem, self-indulgence for any of my own stories. I just like writing them.

So what's the deal?

You know those stories where the writer wants to be clever more than they want to let readers actually know what's going on?

Oh.

Yeah, one of those. The type of story that uses a bunch of big words for no reason. And that's before the writer's alliteration fetish.

A smutty sequence is literally an action scene. And like any action scene, on the page or onscreen, clarity is important. Especially for smut, when the reader's brain cares more about, ahem, their own self-indulgence than trying to decipher what you're saying.

For example, a character is physically hot, and the narration says he's "putting out lots of infrared energy". Because apparently saying "he's hot" again would get the writer dragged off to the Hague.

Now, I don't mind a bit of circumlocution, a bit of indirectness. But it shouldn't be almost every line.

Correction; almost every line that isn't applying arbitrary, annoying alliteration.

Needless to say, the story that sparked this rant is pretty much a bog-standard TF sequence, except for the over-written purple prose. And you know the worst part?

I knew the writer was like this. I've known for years. But the writer's name didn't register until I was reading the story and it was too late.

Far too late.

TL;DR: Using more words doesn't make your story better. Using more words and alliteration makes me want to metaphorically waylay you with a balloon animal until you become a better writer.