What do you think of gay romance fiction written by girls for girls?

[Anonymous]

I see questions often online asking why girls like gay romance (slash, yaoi, etc.). It's usually followed by an assumption that girls shouldn't like feminine guys. It just seems like they don't really understand girls.

Lesbians aren't necessarily feminine with feminine. There are those who are more masculine.

And in gay romance fictions written for girls by girls (it's a fantasy, not real), there are feminine guys and masculine guys (although those rigid roles probably don't exist like that in real life gay relationships). In those fiction, there are two attractive guys. Slash fiction and shipping are really popular lately.

1.) For me, I like seeing two guys together that are attractive. If one guy is good, two is better (especially if they are hot).
2.) There is no girl involved (no competition). And there are no girls that are being taken advantage of sexually or romantically so I can enjoy the romance without feeling like I have to conform to a role.
3.) Sexuality in p*rn , media, ads, etc. are usually geared towards men. You usually see females making the orgasm-like faces, the sexy faces. But then you usually see men standing next to them without any expression. It's like sex doesn't even pleasure them.
4.) Forbidden romance. It isn't the usually romance, but they love each other beyond gender. Love as the central theme. (There's also a trend in Asian romance shows made for girls with a wide girl audience about girls dressing up as boys and straight men falling for them while believing they were male... in a conservative environment.)

In gay romance fiction (slash, yaoi, etc.), you can imagine men in ecstasy.

The media sometimes makes fun of girls liking homosexual romance, but it doesn't really say anything on guys liking lesbian romances.

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But some fiction sound like the writer is putting the guy in the women's position. For me, it's a nice feeling for a guy who's attractive to know what a girl feels, to be empathy to her. That's partly why I usually imagine a guy I find really attractive as... the bottom...(even though those rigid roles don't really exist in real homosexual relationships). I don't want to actually see him getting banged in real life nor do I want to bang him. I just want to see him... in ecstasy.

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And part of the reason why slash fiction is so nice to read is that... the characters seem equal (even though they aren't b/c the girls usually have rigid sexual roles that remind us of men/women) and there's this feeling that the characters feel... right... for the roles, and it isn't forced upon them by society. It's not... you're a woman so you HAVE to act this way or that even though that doesn't feel right to you or you don't necessarily like being submissive. They are both men.

[slackercruster]

don't know, but 'Rebecca' does some great lesbi comix called Teens at Play and Housewives at Play.

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Rebecca may be a man catfish. The stuff she comes up with goes beyond what a lady usually comes up with... but nobody knows who she / he is. Very hot stuff if you like graphic material.

[ab73ds]

Well i dont know much outside the realm of anime, but within anime it varies from boy love, to yaoi, to bara. all focused towards a different audience, though i with that people would make less yaoi jokes about Black Butler, yes it has some undertones but the fan girls have gone nuts over seb/ciel seb/greil.

[AllThatSweetJazz]

I feel a little bad when girls are attracted to something I can't be for them. I suppose it depends on which guys, but I can enjoy such fiction. I get your points and have similar feelings about lesbian fiction (yuri and the like). Also the idea of girls that make cute boys, or boys that are very much passable as girls is so appealing to me, I want that. :)

I'm curious about these shows now.

[AllThatSweetJazz]

And now I want to write a song about meeting a cute guy, wtf. Look what you've done!

[Coolguy1928]

Are you good in writing gay stories? I need inspiration for an upcoming contest on furaffinity. net , well, at least I think it's a contest... Anyways, please help!

[Asker]

(https://) archiveofourown. org/works/324068/chapters/521968

I'm not so great, but this is a good example of one. It's a slash fiction based on Charles Xavier/Erik L (Magneto).

Charles is a human researcher who advocated for a world where humans and mutants lived freely and peacefully (without discrimination and segregation... and race killings). And for that, he is targeted by his fellow men. He seeks asylum with Erik L. The setup was made by his sister Raven, who is a mutant. Erik L. (Magneto) hates humans, but he begins to find himself falling for Charles. And as these two develop a romantic bond, Charles begins to wonder if it is real or artificial, a result of Stockholm syndrome. In this story, Charles sounds like the Jew that's hiding in Erik's attic in order to escape torture and death (and that's essentially what it is). Ironic... because Erik is Jewish... and a mutant and was tortured in the WWII concentration camps.

[Asker]

Excerpt: The thing is – the thing is, a lot of the time they are happy. Charles will get engrossed in whatever new project he has started and forget about everything else, ramble on about it for hours while Erik sits and listens, tries to understand more than just the sound of his voice. Or they play chess together, sometimes fast and loose, other times long and drawn-out with a sharp strategic focus and an air of competition between them, only looking up from the board to sip at their drinks or watch each other consider the next move, the next gambit. If he’s feeling playful Erik will wait until Charles isn’t looking and switch the pieces around with his powers, knowing full well Charles will turn back to the game and say “You cheat! Put them back,” his voice chiding even if his mouth is trying not to laugh.

[Asker]

Excerpt cont: Sometimes, they are happy, together. Charles will dance around as he tidies up after the mess he’s made with his studies, humming off-key as he picks up papers and books and tucking them away where he’ll only forget to look the next time he wants them. Erik will tell him about the ridiculous demands some of the delegates make and Charles will shake his head in disbelief, then ask him what he’d done about it, always so sure Erik’s reaction will be worth a laugh. Charles will do some small, insignificant thing and Erik will feel his heart thump hard in his throat, shocked once again to be so ridiculously in love with anyone as he is with Charles.

[Asker]

Exerpt cont: And then Charles will remember something, a trip to the beach, or a walk he used to take with Raven, or a book he wants to borrow that’s only held at one library and that you can’t check out because it’s too rare, and he will ask again to be let out - you can’t keep me here for the rest of my life, Erik!- and the only thing he can do is refuse, swallow down the lump in his throat and deny Charles his freedom once again.

[Asker]

There are some really great fanfiction out there. It's almost amazing. There are some that are purely smut and some (usually really popular) that are these amazing stories. There is great wit and great chemistry between the characters.

[Asker]

Excerpt 2: “Raven got me a cooking book for Christmas,” Charles says eventually, when both of them are picking at the last of their meals, twirling his fork in the leftover spaghetti and dragging it in tightening circles across his plate. “She thought I might enjoy learning.”

Erik hums around his own mouthful, sips at his beer with the reverence of long absence. “What did I get you?”

It earns him a snort and a sidelong glance, but Charles doesn’t look annoyed. “Some new clothes,” he says, “which I must admit were sorely needed by now, and a haircut, courtesy of Raven. You do understand that the idea is generally to pick things out yourself?”

It’s the most content Erik’s been in months. Warm and with a full stomach, drink in hand in his own kitchen - and Charles, poking gentle fun at him, elbow propped on the table and pen marks on his face where he must have forgotten it was in his hand.

[Asker]

Exerpt 3: “She’s not really a girl any more, Charles,” Erik says, and picks up the abandoned textbook, eyes roaming over the highlighted passages and finding them incomprehensible, full of words he understands and meanings he doesn’t. “Leave the dishes, you cooked. What’s this?” He slides a finger into the open page and turns the book over to read the title, Principles of Human Genetics.

“I don’t mind,” Charles says, but he leaves them in the dry sink anyway and comes to look at the textbook, taking it carefully from Erik’s hands as though it is a treasure. “I teach from this. Well. Taught.” His eyes are sad as he reopens it to the page he had left it on, runs a thumb across the last section of highlighted text. “I don’t suppose I still have a position any more after such a long absence. And I was on tenure track, too.”

“That’s good?”

[Asker]

Excerpt 3 cont: “That’s a very good thing. It would have meant a permanent position, eventually. Assuming I didn’t get caught shagging a student or knifing someone.”

Erik smiles. “Were they hard habits to break?”

“What - oh, no, of course not,” Charles says, and closes the book, lays it back down on the table face down, like an ostrich with its head buried in the sand.

It reminds him, painfully, that while he is content with the way things are, it does not mean Charles is.

[Asker]

Excerpt 4: It’s an easy out, one Charles has practically handed him, and Erik pauses for a long moment, torn between letting it slide and not letting it go. He drags a hand back through his hair, resists the urge to pull. Maybe it’s time to revisit the reasons why Charles has to stay here, because even though Charles knows them, agrees with them - or says he does - sometimes the human finds it hard to think rationally about it, and that’s when he gets restless, starts asking and asking and asking again, pushing at the boundaries in ways that can only get him killed. Erik does understand, he does, but he’s only one man, and after five years -

After five years, Erik is tired, and just for once he wants to eat his pie and not think about Charles being unhappy about being here with him.

“I don’t know,” he settles on, finally, slumping down in his chair once the silence has become awkward and even Charles with his steady, unflinching gaze has glanced back down at the table.

[Asker]

Excerpt 4 cont: “I brought the latest Annal of Genetics for you.”

Beast had dropped the journal off with Rogue earlier while Erik was in meetings. There are two papers in this month’s edition that he thinks Charles might be interested in, and a third has used his work - without his name attached, but then Beast has always declined to use his own, either, instead publishing it as a joint project of the ‘Mutant Genetics Research Team’. He’s been looking forward to giving it to Charles all day.

He wants, more than anything, for Charles to be happy.

[Asker]

I also recommend "Stupid Post It Notes." It's an original fiction, but it's really well known with 4000 reviews (https://www.) fictionpress. com/s/1940307/1/Stupid-Post-It-Notes

Summary: Seth has a lot to deal with lately, such as adjusting to his brand new life with a brand new 'family', including the acerbic and unpredictable Tuesday, who can't seem to stand him [M/M slash]

[JackKerouac77]

I'm completely against censorship, so I want anyone to write what anyone else will read.

[superporma]

Men like lesbians so, it's really the same thing if you think about it. Not a big deal/controversy.

[Crossroads-USMC]

I know I'd like to read some. :)

[JennieF]

Some of it is hot.