I feel so honoured. ;) I have actually more female than male friends, despite the fact that I get along better with men than with women in general. I suppose it's due to the fact that I just meet a lot more women than men, so there are just fewer men I get to know closely in my everyday life.
Sure, that is flattering. Then again, I'm not sure if I care much about whether gay men would like my fanfics or not. I mean, we all know that the majority of slash writers (in fandom) are women, as are most readers. Of course we try to get things mostly right and not write complete and utter bullshit (both anatomically/sexually and emotionally, i.e. no grown-up men behaving like teenage girls). And yet I don't think I'd give more credit to a gay man's review than to a woman's. Just like, if I wrote het, I couldn't care less about another woman (or straight man) telling me that, in their experience, this or that is unrealistic, if it does make sense to me. That probably doesn't make any sense right now, does it? I should really stop writing comments in the middle of the night.
Well, there is a community for that, if you want more. It's, obviously, called blackwoodcoward. ;) The fandom has an absurd number of amazing writers and amazing fics, and since there is a fic exchange going on right now there were lots of new fics posted in the past weeks. You shouldn't have any trouble finding great fic. I don't think I've read a single bad fic in this fandom. Sure, not all of them were OMFG!AMAZING, but they were all pretty good.
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Sure, that is flattering. Then again, I'm not sure if I care much about whether gay men would like my fanfics or not. I mean, we all know that the majority of slash writers (in fandom) are women, as are most readers. Of course we try to get things mostly right and not write complete and utter bullshit (both anatomically/sexually and emotionally, i.e. no grown-up men behaving like teenage girls). And yet I don't think I'd give more credit to a gay man's review than to a woman's. Just like, if I wrote het, I couldn't care less about another woman (or straight man) telling me that, in their experience, this or that is unrealistic, if it does make sense to me. That probably doesn't make any sense right now, does it? I should really stop writing comments in the middle of the night.
Well, there is a community for that, if you want more. It's, obviously, called blackwoodcoward. ;) The fandom has an absurd number of amazing writers and amazing fics, and since there is a fic exchange going on right now there were lots of new fics posted in the past weeks. You shouldn't have any trouble finding great fic. I don't think I've read a single bad fic in this fandom. Sure, not all of them were OMFG!AMAZING, but they were all pretty good.
Btw, love your icon. It's a new one, no?