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cimoreneDoes anyone here actively read het? Not like as in, I read Morgan/Garcia whenever I can find it, or well, I've spent months looking for some decent Labyrinth fic (although both are true of me), but like, even an occasional foray into a healthy or plentiful currently active het fandom like in Harry Potter or SGA (and I don't mean like the occasional Rodney/Teyla fest populated mostly by members of slash fandom - both because I still won't break OTP and because I'm looking for het produced by primarily het shippers/writers)? Where would I start looking for recs - any ideas beyond the basic shipper communities and archives?
I've tried looking for some good het before, mainly out of curiosity and a kind of dissatisfaction, because in one way a romance is a romance, but in another way - like because gender roles are still really different in our society - it really isn't, unless the slash romance is annoyingly mischaracterised.
In consequence of such thoughts I've dipped my toe into Harry Potter several times - a couple weeks' reading, maybe four or ten novels' worth when you put it all together - under the theory that it was probably the most plentiful there, but I've never had a really good handle on where to start, or where to go after I exhausted one source (such as one goodish author). Alas, in my experience f/f seems to really flourish only in fandoms where it's canon (Xena, B5). Even in HP where there's lots of it, from what I've found it's mostly quite short and insubstantial.
I've tried looking for some good het before, mainly out of curiosity and a kind of dissatisfaction, because in one way a romance is a romance, but in another way - like because gender roles are still really different in our society - it really isn't, unless the slash romance is annoyingly mischaracterised.
In consequence of such thoughts I've dipped my toe into Harry Potter several times - a couple weeks' reading, maybe four or ten novels' worth when you put it all together - under the theory that it was probably the most plentiful there, but I've never had a really good handle on where to start, or where to go after I exhausted one source (such as one goodish author). Alas, in my experience f/f seems to really flourish only in fandoms where it's canon (Xena, B5). Even in HP where there's lots of it, from what I've found it's mostly quite short and insubstantial.
