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⌈ Secret Post #5298 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

And even with male characters that do express their emotions more openly, there's still a way to do that that doesn't turn that into the sole defining feature of who they are. Some of the shows I watch do have men who will cry openly sometimes, and who are more open to expressing and discussing how they feel about things, and so on and so forth. Which is great! That's part of what I like about them as characters.

But even then, they don't act that way EVERY time they're under some kind of stress, or in a dangerous situation, or whatever. And they won't act that way around every single person they encounter, either. There's naturally going to be some people they feel more comfortable being vulnerable and emotional in front of than others, and there's still going to be some things they'll be reserved about even around people they trust and are close to, for a whole host of reasons. There is a balance there, and yeah, it does seem a lot of fic writers either have a hard time finding that balance, or just don't bother trying to explore and find it at all.

[(Anonymous)]

Absolutely. There's still ways to do it well and I feel most of the time fandom's just... don't? They want excessive whump, which alright, but I cannot say I'm interested what a lot of a given fandom will put-out in that regard. It's not 'emotional' or difficult, it's just melodramatic dogshite that's worse than your average soap opera.

If the characters actually were 13 I'd probably still hate it, lmao.

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AYRT

It's not 'emotional' or difficult, it's just melodramatic dogshite that's worse than your average soap opera.

Mmhm. I especially find those kinds of stories amusing when the characters already have more than enough trauma in canon and the fic writers just want to keep piling more on top of all of that, instead of, y'know, just exploring their struggles that already exist. But no, apparently, in some fic writers' eyes, those characters haven't suffered nearly enough.

[(Anonymous)]

NAYRT--honestly I think for some people it's a kink thing? One of my fave adult male characters had been helpless and cried and discussed his feelings in canon, and a couple of authors in the fandom took that and wrote thousands of pages of flanderized fic where he did basically nothing but that interspersed with fucking.

Which bored the shit out of me because he also manipulated, schemed, killed people, had family and friends and enemies and an adult life, but since the authors fetishized his helplessness from the lowest or most vulnerable parts of his life, they wrote fic where he wept and agonized about every damn thing. Like, I like that the character is emotionally and physically vulnerable in canon sometimes, unlike so many one dimensional male leads, but he survived to adulthood before meeting the other half of my otp. He can do things other than cry, navel gaze, and fuck.

And this is so common it happens in tons of fandoms.