Question Arising from Recent Fanfic

[moon_custafer]

Do a lot of people, or at least a lot of fanfic writers/readers, consider humming particularly sexy, or something? There seems to be a convention of men humming seductively as they kiss somebody, or gaze into another’s eyes, or just pause in the conversation.

Maybe it’s not literal humming, maybe it means the character is saying “hmm,” or making some inarticulate sound that can’t be accurately conveyed as a grunt or a sigh?

Comments

[kore]

"Hmm" is okay, "Mmmm" maybe, but someone "makes a humming noise" or "'Okay,' he hummed" drives me NUTS. And "Hmm" only works as a conversational filler or noncommittal sound for me. No during sex!

I remember it from chat RP back in the last decade, too. Lots of humming, lots of Mmmm, also "huffs a laugh" or "laughs softly" or similar things. I dunno if they leaked over from old school RP like toxic waste or what, but "chuffs" or "huffs a laugh" makes me want to take a blowtorch to something.