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⌈ Secret Post #2494 ⌋

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I'm not interested in female characters having relationships. I got plenty of that in my early teens with all the harlequin romances and mary sue fics I've read and written. Now I'm more interested in reading about female characters having adventures and kicking ass, while male characters have harlequin-like gary stu relationships and love dramas.

+1

Seriously, I started reading romance novels when I was 11. After twenty years, I've moved on to slash with (one hopes) good female characters in the background, or stories entirely about women that don't emphasize romance.

I'm kinda' the same. I don't want to read about women in romantic situations, because that's where practically all women end up in fiction. Whereas there are shittons of male characters either don't end up in a romantic situation at all, or at least it's not the focus of their story arc. I love stories about women adventuring and kicking ass and dealing with politics and saving the day and even being the big bad villain.

But ships? Naaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah. When it comes to romance, I'm tired of it. I'd rather put the dudes there (especially since they're probably the ones adventuring and kicking as in canon) while the ladies (who are often the love interests in canon) are adventuring and kicking ass in fic. For example, in what I'm currently writing for Metro Last Light, the two dudes - who Do All the Things and Save Everyone in canon - are having relationships, while the one female character - who exists only to be rescued and then given as a sexual reward to the protagonist in canon - is leading an organization to help the survivors rebuild (i.e. Doing the Things and Saving Everyone).

Is that blatantly escapist and wish-fulfilling? Sure, but no more than the original canon story.

I love that women can't have both. They can't be sexually desired/romantically loved and kick ass.

Your story reads to me like run of the mill "I want to see two dudes have sex and I have to find a way to push a canonical love interest to the side, so I'll just pay lip service to her in a story where she's a strong womyn who don't need no menz". Dime a dozen in every. single. slash fandom. I've ever been in.

Hahahaha whaaaaaaaat. There are no canonical love interests in that game. There's a single one night stand, after which the two characters never see each other again. Is your google broken, or do you just make asinine assumptions about everyone on the internet?

And in canon she didn't have both. She had "sexually desired", without the ass kicking. I'm sick of that, so I'm writing a story where it's the opposite. I also reversed the situation for the dude. Where is your petulant outrage that "men can't have both"? Whyyyy oh whyyyy did I shoehorn him away from his canonical ass-kicking and saving everything to focus on another aspect of his character so I can pay lip service to him in a story where he's all about ~feels~ and gets off with other dudes? Those are dime a dozen. in every. single. slash fandom. I mean, christ. It's almost like slash is about gay porn.

Of course women can have a romance and kick ass. But fic in the 'romance' genre will naturally have more focus on romance than the asskicking.

Also, it's hard to find a story where a shy, delicate boy falls for a strong, independent woman and pines wistfully for her, wishing to be swept into her strong womanly arms and saved from all the evils of the world, culminating an a scene where she takes him with her cock on a bed of roses, and it's his first time and he's shy, but she's gentle, patient and experienced and holds him close afterwards, whispering sweet nothings in his ear. Not impossible(thank you Homestuck fandom!), but hard.

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