If you do post, I'm sure you'll be very respectful, but I know what you mean about not wanting to risk the dogpile.
What I was halfway thinking of doing wasn't so much pointing out anything myself as saying, "People! Tell me a published gay romance by a woman or a straight guy and what you think it does wrong or right, and why." i.e. Trying to get other people to do it for me.
Though I'd maybe start things off by bringing up, say, the evil dead lesbian thing in BSG 2.0, or Cordelia Vorkosigan's "he was bisexual; now he's monogamous," line in... whichever Vorkosigan series book that was in. I just remember it being an annoying moment in an otherwise awesome series. Or if we were talking about fics, the Reboot het fic that shall remain nameless that I found on ff.net last week that had background Sulu/Chekov and had both of them as totally OOC flaming camp stereotypes, apparently just for the lulz. (it ruined what was supposed to be 50,000 words of the-reviews-made-it-sound-good McCoy/Uhura fic for me. Why couldn't Sulu and Chekov have been an item and still acted like themselves?)
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What I was halfway thinking of doing wasn't so much pointing out anything myself as saying, "People! Tell me a published gay romance by a woman or a straight guy and what you think it does wrong or right, and why." i.e. Trying to get other people to do it for me.
Though I'd maybe start things off by bringing up, say, the evil dead lesbian thing in BSG 2.0, or Cordelia Vorkosigan's "he was bisexual; now he's monogamous," line in... whichever Vorkosigan series book that was in. I just remember it being an annoying moment in an otherwise awesome series. Or if we were talking about fics, the Reboot het fic that shall remain nameless that I found on ff.net last week that had background Sulu/Chekov and had both of them as totally OOC flaming camp stereotypes, apparently just for the lulz. (it ruined what was supposed to be 50,000 words of the-reviews-made-it-sound-good McCoy/Uhura fic for me. Why couldn't Sulu and Chekov have been an item and still acted like themselves?)