Lol, I meant that I can only look at this as a reader. I just meant that if I wrote, my fandom experience would be different. Don't know how familiar you are with Thor (the movie, since I haven't touched the comic books), but the majority of fic is Thor/Loki. Now, I adore slashing them up, but if I bothered to write? I think I'd only bother with gen. Or if Lord of the Rings fandom was still active and I actually wrote in it? You'd get Legolas/Aragorn and Eowyn/Faramir from me, you know? That's what I meant. As a reader, I don't get much say in what's written and so, I just read what I like out of what's available. I tried reading some Eowyn/Faramir, but they were few and far between and not that great, so...I stuck with Legolas/Aragorn. And unfortunately, there's very little gen in Thor fandom. So, it looks like I only care about a slash pairings when I really didn't have much of a choice as a reader. That's what I meant.
Also, I watch Glee (my number one guilty pleasure) and I used to read fics of a certain slash and femslash pairing. Then both couples became canon and...I left fandom. That' the kind of person I am. If I get what I want from canon, I don't need fanon. But yes, half the time, the biggest problem is just the amount of love that guys get. I mean, it's hypocritical of me to say anything bc a lot of the time, my favorite characters are male as well, but I do feel really disappointed when I step into fandom and wanna flail over a certain character and can't find someone lol. Or, half the time, I think a female character is phenomenal but I don't like her with anyone, and it's hard to find fics where she's awesome but...alone, you know? And of course, there are times where it really is a situation of pretty boys together lol.
As for your scenario? Yes, that's problematic, but it depends on several things, I believe. I was in two communities for a fandom - one only for slash and one for any fic. The one for any fic had a member that would constantly put random stuff that wasn't exactly against the rules but I could really care less about. It got to the point that I left the community. So, it now looks like I only read slash when I am perfectly open to anything but couldn't handle my flist getting cluttered. Or I'm in an xmen comm for slash fics. I joined it years ago...but haven't actually read anything on it for a long time now. I don't really know why I haven't left lol (I just realized that I was still part of it) but to anyone looking at my profile, it looks like the only thing I care about when I read all kinds of fic on the xmen kink meme (by all kinds, I mean slash/femslash/het/gen - I'm very picky with kinks lol). So, I mean, just looking at communities people are in, doesn't really mean anything. I'm not making excuses for my reading/fandom-ing habits bc fandom is where I go for fun rather than worrying about issues, but just trying to show why something like that isn't necessarily a good indicator.
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Also, I watch Glee (my number one guilty pleasure) and I used to read fics of a certain slash and femslash pairing. Then both couples became canon and...I left fandom. That' the kind of person I am. If I get what I want from canon, I don't need fanon. But yes, half the time, the biggest problem is just the amount of love that guys get. I mean, it's hypocritical of me to say anything bc a lot of the time, my favorite characters are male as well, but I do feel really disappointed when I step into fandom and wanna flail over a certain character and can't find someone lol. Or, half the time, I think a female character is phenomenal but I don't like her with anyone, and it's hard to find fics where she's awesome but...alone, you know? And of course, there are times where it really is a situation of pretty boys together lol.
As for your scenario? Yes, that's problematic, but it depends on several things, I believe. I was in two communities for a fandom - one only for slash and one for any fic. The one for any fic had a member that would constantly put random stuff that wasn't exactly against the rules but I could really care less about. It got to the point that I left the community. So, it now looks like I only read slash when I am perfectly open to anything but couldn't handle my flist getting cluttered. Or I'm in an xmen comm for slash fics. I joined it years ago...but haven't actually read anything on it for a long time now. I don't really know why I haven't left lol (I just realized that I was still part of it) but to anyone looking at my profile, it looks like the only thing I care about when I read all kinds of fic on the xmen kink meme (by all kinds, I mean slash/femslash/het/gen - I'm very picky with kinks lol). So, I mean, just looking at communities people are in, doesn't really mean anything. I'm not making excuses for my reading/fandom-ing habits bc fandom is where I go for fun rather than worrying about issues, but just trying to show why something like that isn't necessarily a good indicator.