[ SECRET POST #2936 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2936 ⌋

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[fscom]

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[(Anonymous)]

Maybe because you find lots of the mainstream female characters to be poorly done or hard to connect to?

So instead you just ship the guys and fill the void of female characters/relationships that popular fiction leaves by creating your own?

[(Anonymous)]

Yep, that's basically what I do!

There are so few f/f ships with engaging, well-written characters that I look to m/m ships for the character dynamics I like.

And then I write original fiction with all the f/f characters I would love to read about.

[(Anonymous)]

yay! lesbians!

[(Anonymous)]

I have no idea why you would do it like that but as long as you are having fun props to you.

[(Anonymous)]

I was the same way for a long time. I almost exclusively write about queer women, but in fandom I'm often drawn to male characters. I attribute it to the dearth of well-written female characters and compelling relationships between them.

Lately I'm into trying to give underdeveloped female characters a better story, but it's a lot easier to find good fic about characters who are already well-written... which is a group that, unfortunately, mostly includes men. And it's a hell of a lot easier to find an audience for fic about male characters than it is to find an audience for my fics about female characters who were poorly developed in canon.

[(Anonymous)]

Write and read what you like OP! ♥

[(Anonymous)]

I don't have quite as clear a dichotomy, because my fandom ships are all over the map and are nowhere near exclusively slash, but I have noticed an odd lesbian trend in my original stuff as well. It's not exclusively femslash either, but I have noticed that in bigger casts I tend to forget romance a lot with the exception of about one or two pairs, and those few pairs are unusually likely to be female pairs. It's happened to me at least four times, that the only actually explicit relationship turns out to be a pair of (usually older) women.

Apparently, there is a particular dynamic that appeals to me when I've got free reign with both characters and story: older women, with usually a mild brains & brawn sort of dynamic going on, and for some reason usually a difference of political opinion/loyalty relevant to the plot.

[(Anonymous)]

I am with you anon.

In fic I write slash because that's what I really like. Cliched tropey setups, the works. Guilty pleasure, not real at all.

In original fic, I feel like my writing has to be less cliched. So I have more lesbians because they're an easier sell to the general public (straight men won't be put off so much) and I still get to have my gay.

[(Anonymous)]

I kind of know what you mean. Most of my ships are het but I tend to think of myself as a slash fan, I almost exclusively read slash, basically only yaoi manga, but all of my original work is wall to wall ladies.

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[(Anonymous)]

Image: two linked hearts

Text: I love yaoi. /My OTPs are all m/m. I will ship two guys for the flimsiest of reasons.

But for some reason …

My original fic is full of lesbians!

[(Anonymous)]

Do as you do, OP. I love slash to no end but IRL I'm a lady who wants to get dominated by a dude. It is what it is.

[cloud_riven]

Lol I understand you even though I'm a multishipper. Most, iirc since I haven't made a graph lately, of my ships are m/m for sure. But every time I look over drafts and scripts for my original work, there's all the gay and gay teasing for f/f. Hell, I even have more het relationships than dude gay, and I barely tend that way in fandom.

[(Anonymous)]

Same. I think it's because when I'm reading I go for what I'm attracted to, which is guys, but when writing I find female characters come more easily to me than male ones. I always worry that I'm not writing men realistically.

[(Anonymous)]

Replying w/o reading other comments...

Anon, I find with my own writing that there is a big difference between ships I like and ships I feel I can write. Maybe that's what's happening here. I don't know why it happens, but it does happen. So like what you like, and create what you can. No worries either way. :)

[(Anonymous)]

the world needs more lesbians in original fiction, so good on you, don't stop