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someone once said in a comment on one of my fics that it could be read as queerplatonic âuntil the very last sceneâ, which was surprising but ultimately fine. i didnât mind that, even if the wording of the rest of that comment felt kinda weird and bothered me a little tbh.
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i still think about it now and then. not bc the comment just barely toed the edge of rude (it doesnât bother me anymore rlly), but bc of the âuntil the very last sceneâ part.
is it bc they confessed at the end? or bc they kissed? bc, to me, the fic /was/ romantic from nearly +
is it bc they confessed at the end? or bc they kissed? bc, to me, the fic /was/ romantic from nearly +
the very beginning.
i already tend to worry about if iâm making the charactersâ romantic attraction to one another clear enough bc i donât tend to pair it with physical attractionâwhich is how i think a lot of people recognize their more-than-platonic feelings for each other. +
i already tend to worry about if iâm making the charactersâ romantic attraction to one another clear enough bc i donât tend to pair it with physical attractionâwhich is how i think a lot of people recognize their more-than-platonic feelings for each other. +
idk if people have noticed that about my fics, how i focus more on the âi want to be close to themâ, rather than the âi want to kiss themâ and itâs bc i donât know if i know how to write about liking someone physically rather than just from an aesthetic aspect, the way you +
appreciate artwork or a particularly pretty sunrise. bc itâs just... not like that. for me. i donât really know what itâs like to like someone like that.
so the comment stuck with me. did that reader think it felt queerplatonic bc the characters never outright thought +
so the comment stuck with me. did that reader think it felt queerplatonic bc the characters never outright thought +
âiâm in love with themâ (bc i like to convey that in less direct ways), or bc physical attraction was never addressed. i mean, you /can/ love someone romantically without wanting to make out with them. asexuality exists. i wish i knew that when i was younger. +
thereâs no grand meaning or conclusion to this thread really. iâm just throwing this out here bc i saw zannaâs tweet about why she doesnât write kissing scenes and it made me think of why /i/ write them even though the idea of them doesnât personally appeal to me +
just to get the point across that yes, they like each other. hereâs a universally recognized gesture to prove it. please donât misunderstand.
the point is, itâs interesting for me to think about now, how the writerâs own experiences seep into their writing. maybe one day iâll +
the point is, itâs interesting for me to think about now, how the writerâs own experiences seep into their writing. maybe one day iâll +
write that fic that /truly/ mirrors my own experiences rather than vaguely skating around them, but until then iâll keep writing kissing scenes and hoping they come off genuine to my readers. theyâre nice to think about anyway, from an outsider pov.
