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30 days of fanfiction meme (day 6)
Jul. 6th, 2011 06:46 pm6 – When you write, do you prefer writing male or female characters?
I slightly prefer writing female characters. Given the choice in a video game or a tabletop roleplay, I always pick a female avatar, and having to interact with the "world" while being aware (because I'm simultaneously looking at it on the screen) that I'm "in" a male avatar causes me actual, no-jokes, psychological discomfort. It's probably 0.05% of what someone with real gender identity disorder experiences. I don't feel like my mind** (thought processes, gaze, sexuality, etc.) is gendered, though, so in FPS-mode where I can't see "myself", I forget about it. Which is why I have no problem writing male POVs, I guess; and of course I don't mind writing about guys from the outside, whether or not they are erotic objects. XD;
My online social network skews vastly female; my offline social network skews vastly male. My fanfiction characters skew vastly male; my original fiction characters (SSBB aside) skew vastly female. I have no theories.
As an aside, this is probably a good place to mention that the Madoka Magica "drabble" fill has hit 1K words and counting. 1) WTF?? but 2) I'm not going to ponder it too hard.
** Any of you guys ever played the "picture a cube in a desert landscape" game? Supposedly every person's cube is different. Mine is a massive translucent white glowing anti-grav thing, suspended a few feet off the ground and rotating on itself. If you look closely at it you see it's not solid: the edges and sides are defined by laser beams and reflection-less force fields. It's very obviously an alien artifact.
I slightly prefer writing female characters. Given the choice in a video game or a tabletop roleplay, I always pick a female avatar, and having to interact with the "world" while being aware (because I'm simultaneously looking at it on the screen) that I'm "in" a male avatar causes me actual, no-jokes, psychological discomfort. It's probably 0.05% of what someone with real gender identity disorder experiences. I don't feel like my mind** (thought processes, gaze, sexuality, etc.) is gendered, though, so in FPS-mode where I can't see "myself", I forget about it. Which is why I have no problem writing male POVs, I guess; and of course I don't mind writing about guys from the outside, whether or not they are erotic objects. XD;
My online social network skews vastly female; my offline social network skews vastly male. My fanfiction characters skew vastly male; my original fiction characters (SSBB aside) skew vastly female. I have no theories.
As an aside, this is probably a good place to mention that the Madoka Magica "drabble" fill has hit 1K words and counting. 1) WTF?? but 2) I'm not going to ponder it too hard.
** Any of you guys ever played the "picture a cube in a desert landscape" game? Supposedly every person's cube is different. Mine is a massive translucent white glowing anti-grav thing, suspended a few feet off the ground and rotating on itself. If you look closely at it you see it's not solid: the edges and sides are defined by laser beams and reflection-less force fields. It's very obviously an alien artifact.
