[ SECRET POST #3004 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3004 ⌋

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[Hoozuki no reitetsu]


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[Terry Pratchett and his daughter]


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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I feel like I'm this way about gay couples versus straight couples in any entertainment I watch/read. Like I'm far more likely to enjoy a gay couple in spite of it's problems but a het couple really needs to be free of tropes and disfunction for me to enjoy it.

I realized this when I realized most of my canon OTPs are lesbian couples and I often don't like the straight ones in the same series.

I think it's because straight romance is done so often I get sick of it's problems a lot quicker.

[(Anonymous)]

Eh, just for me, I definitely don't think that's the case (as someone where most of my canon OTPs are also lesbian couples). Because I'll put up with plenty of problems when it's a straight romance that I actually like and that actually appeals to me. I mean, it doesn't feel to me like I'm just so completely used to straight romances that hit the spot for me that I can afford to be a connoisseur and pick and choose. It's more that, although straight romance is done often, it's rarely done in a way that actually appeals to me.

And I wonder how much of that ties in to the old idea that part of the appeal of slash and/or femslash is the relative freedom from gender roles and expectations and norms. IE, that straight romance ships tend to be unappealing more frequently because they're freighted with the weight of societal expectations.

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT Actually that's probably part of it now that I think about it. I wouldn't say straight romances are always written well, like yes there are a lot to choose from, but there's a lot of BAD to choose from.

I still wonder if maybe I give gay couples a little more leeway because no matter their problems, it doesn't feel as tired as it does when it's a straight couple.

Like basically a straight couple will be written badly, and that sucks enough on it's own, but then you'll have to see that same situation written about 50 more times across all different media. And that's where it goes from bad to unbearable.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, I would definitely agree that a badly written straight romance annoys me way more than a badly written gay romance. Unbearable is not a bad word at all, really.