as long as they're not singling out your fic as the one and only they'll ever be able to tolerate in that genre
But what if they do? Let's say that someone sent me a review for "Endings and Beginnings" that began, I don't read Harry/Ginny as a rule, but your story was recommended to me by someone I trust so I read it -- and I was really pleasantly surprised, it wasn't juvenile or saccharine at all. I still prefer to avoid H/G on principle, though.
Is that really offensive? I can't see it, myself. I might feel that the person in question was depriving themselves of some good fic, and I might even suggest to them a couple of other stories that they might want to try before giving up, but in the end it's really up to them what they want to read. Is it any different when the subgenre is het or slash or pastfics or futurefics?
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as long as they're not singling out your fic as the one and only they'll ever be able to tolerate in that genre
But what if they do? Let's say that someone sent me a review for "Endings and Beginnings" that began, I don't read Harry/Ginny as a rule, but your story was recommended to me by someone I trust so I read it -- and I was really pleasantly surprised, it wasn't juvenile or saccharine at all. I still prefer to avoid H/G on principle, though.
Is that really offensive? I can't see it, myself. I might feel that the person in question was depriving themselves of some good fic, and I might even suggest to them a couple of other stories that they might want to try before giving up, but in the end it's really up to them what they want to read. Is it any different when the subgenre is het or slash or pastfics or futurefics?