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*tilts head*
Okay. If you don't want to write female characters, and you prefer to write m/m slash fic for whatever reason you like, cool! I like to write male relationship stories/erotica as well. It can be hot and there are many characters in my fandom with awesome dynamics together -- their gender doesn't matter to me. Plus: yay!cocks! I enjoy cocks a lot. Some people only like reading and writing about people with cocks and female sex/relationships don't interest them because they already know what that's like and sometimes, it's not really "different" enough to interest them. I don't want to write about my own life and mostly feel this way about long-term couples of any gender/orientation in canon who don't have a bit of conflict/history/relationship hot mess to spice things up. Kinda boring to me. Different strokes.
But if the stated reasons are:
-- "The female character(s) are badly-written in canon! The guys are always more interesting!"
-- "The female character in a het or poly or any relationship can't be "as equal" as a man relating to another man because of historical, institutional sexism. "If I write two guys they can be equals" !
Uh... you do... realise that in fanfiction you can write female characters better and write them into healthy, hot, sex-positive relationships even if those don't exist in the source material, right? This is not really more farfetched than a story about two canonically straight guys falling in love with each other and running through a field of daisies and fucking all over desks and spaceships and getting m-pregnant?
"Badly-written in canon" hasn't stopped slash writers from giving any given (hot, natch) male character with two lines a vibrant back story and sexxins by writers. Nobody has to write female characters or het or femslash, and liking given male characters better than the female ones is of course up to the individual fan, but fic writers routinely FIX holes in canon:
Fanfic = making things up.
It's also totally possible for a woman to have a healthy, nonsexist relationship with a dude (or another woman, for that matter). I've had one for over a decade. "Help, help, I'm not being oppressed! Really!"
Okay. If you don't want to write female characters, and you prefer to write m/m slash fic for whatever reason you like, cool! I like to write male relationship stories/erotica as well. It can be hot and there are many characters in my fandom with awesome dynamics together -- their gender doesn't matter to me. Plus: yay!cocks! I enjoy cocks a lot. Some people only like reading and writing about people with cocks and female sex/relationships don't interest them because they already know what that's like and sometimes, it's not really "different" enough to interest them. I don't want to write about my own life and mostly feel this way about long-term couples of any gender/orientation in canon who don't have a bit of conflict/history/relationship hot mess to spice things up. Kinda boring to me. Different strokes.
But if the stated reasons are:
-- "The female character(s) are badly-written in canon! The guys are always more interesting!"
-- "The female character in a het or poly or any relationship can't be "as equal" as a man relating to another man because of historical, institutional sexism. "If I write two guys they can be equals" !
Uh... you do... realise that in fanfiction you can write female characters better and write them into healthy, hot, sex-positive relationships even if those don't exist in the source material, right? This is not really more farfetched than a story about two canonically straight guys falling in love with each other and running through a field of daisies and fucking all over desks and spaceships and getting m-pregnant?
"Badly-written in canon" hasn't stopped slash writers from giving any given (hot, natch) male character with two lines a vibrant back story and sexxins by writers. Nobody has to write female characters or het or femslash, and liking given male characters better than the female ones is of course up to the individual fan, but fic writers routinely FIX holes in canon:
Fanfic = making things up.
It's also totally possible for a woman to have a healthy, nonsexist relationship with a dude (or another woman, for that matter). I've had one for over a decade. "Help, help, I'm not being oppressed! Really!"
