[ SECRET POST #4845 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4845 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Totally with you on this.

Most of the time it's "here's a man and here's a woman, clearly they have an epic love" and the writers seem to expect people to just go along with it, a lot of time without really developing either character at all (more often the woman) or actually showing why they supposedly love each other so much.

Honestly, I think this is the main reason why I tend to prefer slash ships. Because usually two guys are never considered by the writers to be potentially love interests for each other, so they actually spend the time devloping a relationship between them, which makes them way easier to ship (at least to me).

[(Anonymous)]

Seconding all of this completely.

It's easier for me to take a complex, nuanced relationship between two characters who care deeply about each other but aren't canonically hot for each other and say, "Okay, now what if they wanted to fuck each other?"

That's easier than taking a flat, obvious, one-note relationship that's canonically romantic/sexual and saying, "Okay, now what if this relationship was actually interesting?" That's much harder - and also, there's just no incentive to do it.

[tabaqui]

Same. Plus - I don't want to 'see myself' in some romance plot or whatever. I want to enjoy really cool characters that aren't being objectified, 'fridged, or used for male titillation (and nominally 'look like me' in that we're both cis females). It's incredibly offputting.

[(Anonymous)]

All of this.

[(Anonymous)]

YEAH. Like, most of the m/f ships I like are the ones that are NOT written primarily as romances, because writers get so LAZY with m/f romances. But any two characters written as friends/partners actually get to have a real relationship.

[(Anonymous)]

1000+ Also, in slash ships, there's usually an implied equality in the two guy relationship that hardly ever exists in het relationships.