I doubt the main problem is that people don't want to write what they don't know
Oh, I didn't say it was the main reason, just a reason. I partially agree with you, re romantic fantasy, but I seriously have a problem with the "it's fine" approach - it's more complicated than that. I'm not saying people should be beating themselves or each other up over that - but it's way more complicated than just ok, imo. Touchy subject. Regardless, I disagree that it's necessarily what slashers are attracted to. I'm attracted to a way larger variety of people than who's in slash, for sure. Had there been more of a variety to choose from, my reading habits may have been very different.
IMO it's more about what's on TV. Most everyone on TV has similar bodies, you know the drill. And if I want to read or write a character as interesting and complex as Dean, a character as deeply explored, which means a character I'm as emotionally attached to as him, I'm not gonna find any whose bodies are very different from his.
the sex in These Clothes, which is there primarily for character reasons
So lovely <3
I think part of the reason they don't is that it just doesn't occur to them
Agreed.
I'd host it, but I don't have enough followers to get it off the ground either
<3
Hey, aren't there communities that promote challenges and such things? I don't think I know any, but I's subscribe to that!
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YES.
I want that comment meme, too!
I doubt the main problem is that people don't want to write what they don't know
Oh, I didn't say it was the main reason, just a reason. I partially agree with you, re romantic fantasy, but I seriously have a problem with the "it's fine" approach - it's more complicated than that. I'm not saying people should be beating themselves or each other up over that - but it's way more complicated than just ok, imo. Touchy subject. Regardless, I disagree that it's necessarily what slashers are attracted to. I'm attracted to a way larger variety of people than who's in slash, for sure. Had there been more of a variety to choose from, my reading habits may have been very different.
IMO it's more about what's on TV. Most everyone on TV has similar bodies, you know the drill. And if I want to read or write a character as interesting and complex as Dean, a character as deeply explored, which means a character I'm as emotionally attached to as him, I'm not gonna find any whose bodies are very different from his.
the sex in These Clothes, which is there primarily for character reasons
So lovely <3
I think part of the reason they don't is that it just doesn't occur to them
Agreed.
I'd host it, but I don't have enough followers to get it off the ground either
<3
Hey, aren't there communities that promote challenges and such things? I don't think I know any, but I's subscribe to that!