[ SECRET POST #2950 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2950 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

AY(were originally)RT

It appears that my comment was unclear. I will clarify.

When a Dragon Age game is new, people get wrapped up in (what is to me) the most boring interpretation of the main het pairings possible. They write the woman as being as a submissive fragile flower, and the man as being an uber suave and dominant Prince Charming, even when neither character fits that description at all. See: the way people used to write Alistair/Warden, and the way people are currently writing Solavellan.

It doesn't mean that I think that het is inherently dull and bland. It just means that people in this fandom get a bit excited and write a lot of het idfic that is, to people who aren't into that kind of thing, the literary equivalent of unflavored oatmeal. As the game ages and their excitement wears off, their production rate slows down significantly, and the fic climate becomes more balanced. This means that M/M begins to catch up in popularity, but also means that what M/F fic is still being produced tends to be of higher quality.

There are many M/F ships in this fandom that I am a fan of, and few M/M ships that hit my buttons. Making an observation on trends in fandom =/= hating het and thinking M/M is inherently more interesting.