I'm not going to reply to most of it, because I know I have done these things you enumerate and explaining myself and debating isn't productive, but I wanted to comment on this:
I think the straight women who are allergic to het have some issues about their own sexuality to work out.
What do you mean by 'allergic to het'? I personally and many people won't read het about characters or people we slash. I said something about this rather recently, in fact.
I do, however, have shelves of heterosexual romance novels, porn, and/or sex manuals of varying quality. I just don't "ship" any fandom het couples or care to read het fanfiction as one of my hobbies.
I am one of the people who pretty much only reads Viggorli, and I know that can be annoying to you because you write so many other pairings. I don't read anyone else's other pairings no matter how much I like their writing. I haven't been able, or even really want, to get into the myriad other fandoms and pairings happening around my flist, and so with my finite resources of time and energy I choose to read stuff that makes me happy. That means I have to give a lot of stuff by people I like a miss, just like they give my stuff a miss. What can you do?
That being said, writing for writing's sake can be lonely but ultimately rewarding. I hope it gets you what you want out of it. :)
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Date: 2007-03-25 09:41 pm (UTC)I think the straight women who are allergic to het have some issues about their own sexuality to work out.
What do you mean by 'allergic to het'? I personally and many people won't read het about characters or people we slash. I said something about this rather recently, in fact.
I do, however, have shelves of heterosexual romance novels, porn, and/or sex manuals of varying quality. I just don't "ship" any fandom het couples or care to read het fanfiction as one of my hobbies.
I am one of the people who pretty much only reads Viggorli, and I know that can be annoying to you because you write so many other pairings. I don't read anyone else's other pairings no matter how much I like their writing. I haven't been able, or even really want, to get into the myriad other fandoms and pairings happening around my flist, and so with my finite resources of time and energy I choose to read stuff that makes me happy. That means I have to give a lot of stuff by people I like a miss, just like they give my stuff a miss. What can you do?
That being said, writing for writing's sake can be lonely but ultimately rewarding. I hope it gets you what you want out of it. :)