Which is problematic when you're in it for the psychological realism--and I understand that's a minority interest in this land.
I'd say this? Is definitely true. I love when I get this from fic, but I don't expect it. I think there's a lot of fic - gen or sex based - that I drop because it doesn't present me with any sort of realism, any sense of characters as I see them. But I also think that I'm not really looking at fic to explore more of the character's psyche. Mostly, if I don't see enough of their psyche on the screen, I don't get invested enough to care about fic.
But fanfic romance blows it out of proportion (all romance does, to my mind, but that's neither here nor there), and more fundamentally it erases the web of mechanisms, the structure that makes sex a component of a whole, and because a story is subject to the same systemic constraints as anything else, that distorts the characters as well.
I would agree with that as well - I think it's a fine line to do a long piece, one with plot and depth and have a romance become a natural part of it, one that makes sense in the context.
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Date: 2008-02-21 07:31 pm (UTC)I'd say this? Is definitely true. I love when I get this from fic, but I don't expect it. I think there's a lot of fic - gen or sex based - that I drop because it doesn't present me with any sort of realism, any sense of characters as I see them. But I also think that I'm not really looking at fic to explore more of the character's psyche. Mostly, if I don't see enough of their psyche on the screen, I don't get invested enough to care about fic.
But fanfic romance blows it out of proportion (all romance does, to my mind, but that's neither here nor there), and more fundamentally it erases the web of mechanisms, the structure that makes sex a component of a whole, and because a story is subject to the same systemic constraints as anything else, that distorts the characters as well.
I would agree with that as well - I think it's a fine line to do a long piece, one with plot and depth and have a romance become a natural part of it, one that makes sense in the context.