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... my first experiences with the online fanfic community I had too much exposure to them.
Who is them? The misogynistic rabid!slasher crowd. Types who were so fanatic about their m/m pairings that they would label any and all female characters the men are actually interested in canon or in fanfiction as Mary Sues. Sometimes they also tend to black the canon woman love interests out.
Which would not be a problem if they just decide for their stories that they write the character in question gay and thus disregard the hook-ups with female characters.
But these people need to have other people agreeing with them. They either go out and attack people who write het with one of the man of their OTP m/m ship or they go around and need people confirm that the female in canon was just an awful Sue and that it is okay to drop her entirely.
Just fucking drop her if you want to focus on m/m. That is just fine.
Or maybe the character bi and build in a nice conflict having "him" been torn between the two people he is attracted to.
It's fanfic - you can do what ever you like. Just do not expect others to validate your crap as if it was gospel. Christ on a cracker, that bullcrap hurts my brain.
Who is them? The misogynistic rabid!slasher crowd. Types who were so fanatic about their m/m pairings that they would label any and all female characters the men are actually interested in canon or in fanfiction as Mary Sues. Sometimes they also tend to black the canon woman love interests out.
Which would not be a problem if they just decide for their stories that they write the character in question gay and thus disregard the hook-ups with female characters.
But these people need to have other people agreeing with them. They either go out and attack people who write het with one of the man of their OTP m/m ship or they go around and need people confirm that the female in canon was just an awful Sue and that it is okay to drop her entirely.
Just fucking drop her if you want to focus on m/m. That is just fine.
Or maybe the character bi and build in a nice conflict having "him" been torn between the two people he is attracted to.
It's fanfic - you can do what ever you like. Just do not expect others to validate your crap as if it was gospel. Christ on a cracker, that bullcrap hurts my brain.
