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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2014-08-13 06:38 pm

[ SECRET POST #2780 ]


⌈ Secret Post #2780 ⌋

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(Anonymous) 2014-08-14 12:24 am (UTC)(link)
Porn I can understand, because what turns people on is very individual. But just romance? See, I don't get that either.

I'm not going to magically be able to relate to a character just by virtue of their being female. Not all women are alike, and there are plenty of female characters I can't relate to at all. There are also plenty of male characters I can relate to easily. The idea that someone can identify with any and all characters of one sex and not with any of the other just doesn't make any sense.
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[personal profile] cloud_riven 2014-08-14 12:42 am (UTC)(link)
Not all storytelling kinks are sexual, and they're in romance too (as well as every other genre). Think of it as mental porn, where your brain gets high off certain romance cliches and tropes and character types. It's all preference, so of course it's not going to make sense to you if you don't prefer the same things.

For instance, I do not self-insert or need main characters justlikemeeee~ either, because I just want to read some raw emotion and fucking that too. I want to feel for the characters. So I'm not going to get why someone else gets a kick out of seeing themselves in the characters other than that they just do.