[ SECRET POST #3773 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3773 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Notorious, Megan and Julia]


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[David Tennant in Broadchurch]


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[Paul Hollywood and Noel Fielding, Great British Bake Off]


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[The Americans]


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Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

"Male OP can't relate to Character/Reader fic because the Reader character is practically never a gay male top."

How did you make the jump to women and slash?

[(Anonymous)]

I don't think that the reasons that people read fic can be reduced to "I relate to the sexual experience of the main character". It seems to me that OP is reducing the reason people read fic to that. This seems wrong to me. I don't know what else to tell you. I just don't think there's a one-to-one correspondence between wanting to read about things and your specific identity and reality and all of that.

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

It's Character/Reader fic.

If the entire point is self insertion. It's not reducing the fic to anything more than what it's supposed to be.

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[cbrachyrhynchos]

If the entire point is self insertion

Pun not intended.

[(Anonymous)]

LOL

[(Anonymous)]

When the reader character is supposed to be "you" it matters

When women read slash neither character is "her" they are two men

When I read het neither are "me" they are two characters

[(Anonymous)]

Exactly. That's why I've tried but can't get into reading Char/Reader fic. So many times what the reader says/does/looks like doesn't jive with me and takes me out of it.

Though I have the same beef with a lot of fanfic written in second person. If the writer's vision of the character isn't very similar to mine, whenever said character says "I did this", I go "you would never". Thusly why I prefer to both read and write in third person omniscient. :p

[(Anonymous)]

would you tell a darker skinned POC that they're wrong for not being able to relate to a character/reader fic that keeps jarringly talking about their beautiful pale skin?

^ am poc. can confirm this happens all the time and throws me instantly out of any story that does this

why would you think a man not being able to relate to a fic that keeps talking about their femininity or breasts or a woman not being able to relate to a fic that keeps talking about their penis is any different?

[(Anonymous)]

NAYRT

"keeps jarringly talking about their beautiful pale skin"

Me too, anon. Character/Reader fic is supposed to be believably self-insert fantasy and details like that smack you in the face with "this isn't for you."

[(Anonymous)]

ra

Ngl, I always twist the words in my head, pretend that what they actually wrote was different (ignoring further descriptions as well). But yeah. Certain descriptions can definitely smack you out of a story.

[(Anonymous)]

giggling over the horror of reducing character/reader fic to relating to the sexual experience of the character.