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Honestly, I have a hard time understanding why people would write het fanfiction -- not an occasional m/f story in a mixed oeuvre, especially in a fandom like DC comics where so many of us wear all three hats and well, but a dedication to turning out a steady stream of hetfic that's all variants on the same couple or handful of couples. The idea of writing gen fanfic exclusively makes more sense to me, personally.

I found this interesting. Of course I'm on my way out of town for a night. But anyway.

I'd like to find this out, find out why the het shippers ship their pairings of choice, if it is a case of "wanting the characters like them" as is sometimes cited for slash, or if it's the couples that *do* ping for them are het for whatever reason, again much as many slashers have cited, or if it's simply that it's about the erotic aspect and for them it's het sex that does it, or if it's just that their OTPs are het. Not to mention if it is different for them if they write canon pairings or UST pairings or "never met but why *not*?" pairings.

*ponders* I think I'm looking for het meta and I don't think there is much of it out there beyond the

ship_manifesto type posts and occasional links on things like

metafandom Which is interesting, because even though there is sometimes more reason to explain - even if only for oneself - why we like slash pairings, one would think there was more out there for het fic.

I'm afraid I can't help - I do everything once, twice if I like it, as far as writing goes.