[ SECRET POST #4969 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4969 ⌋

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


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02.
[Gank Your Heart]


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[final fantasy xiv]


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04.
[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]


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(Final Fantasy XIV)


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06.
[Harry Styles, "Watermelon Sugar"]


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07.
[The Untamed/MZDS]


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Comments

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT--those are most of my sticking points too, but the third one can vary so much from person to person as to make stuff I love, including het fics I love, utterly unreadable to some people.

For one thing, I think a lot of the het pairings I ship probably legit trigger people; some are fucked up. And people who aren't triggered might still be squicked.

I guess I don't agree that the SPAG stuff in het fics, or even the plots and settings, are obviously of lower quality than in m/m or f/f fics. That's not generally what's putting people who aren't into het fics off reading them.

I think mostly people into m/m or f/f don't find het hot, they're put off by what they see as the intrinsic power imbalance inherent in het ships, or both.

I personally enjoy the power imbalance thing. Even when I'm not into a lot of romance novel standards, the idea that the guy starts out thinking he has the power in the relationship and ends up acknowledging that the woman he loves could squash him like a bug (and he'd thank her for it) is one of my favorite tropes. If you hate that trope, it doesn't mean there are no well written examples of it anywhere. It means you hate the trope. Which is fine.

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

The issue for me is there are so few fics that check the first two boxes that personal taste doesn't even factor into it. They were just bad, not well-written but unsatisfying. Lol.

I think I can enjoy most dynamics and tropes, but it depends how they're handled by the author.