The gay fanfiction problem

Put simply, if you’re writing about two female characters, you might confuse your reader about who you’re talking about if you only use the pronoun she with no other context. Lauren: Yep, but when they collide it’s very complicated. B smiled. These conventions are only used in the cases where a technical grammatical reading of the sentence would allow for ambiguity.

I've read a good amount of femslash prose, recently, that does this quite well. A and B walked down the street. From there, human broke down how languages including Nepali, Blackfoot, and some sign languages get around the gay fanfiction problem by differentiating pronouns by social status, role in a sentence, or physical placement in space, rather than just by gender as they are in English. Solutions to the Gay Fanfiction Pronoun Dilemma aren't about technical readings of a sentence's probability space, it's about the reader intuitively grasping the imagery without breaking their reading flow.

I explain fanfiction and its common constructs, and then explore how queer reading functions to challenge and subvert heteronormative narratives for better representation and for validation.

There’s the Gay Fanfiction Problem, and then there’s the Poly Fanfiction Problem, and those are two separate problems. Lauren: Yep, but when they collide it’s very complicated.

The Gay FanFiction Problem refers to the issue of ambiguity when more than one person is referred to by the same pronoun. A grabbed B. She A kissed her B. She laughed. There’s the Gay Fanfiction Problem, and then there’s the Poly Fanfiction Problem, and those are two separate problems. I explain fanfiction and its common constructs, and then explore how queer reading functions to challenge and subvert heteronormative narratives for better representation and for validation.

There’s the Gay Fanfiction Problem, and then there’s the Poly Fanfiction Problem, and those are two separate problems. On an impulse, she A grabbed her B hand. Put simply, if you’re writing about two female characters, you might confuse your reader about who you’re talking about if you only use the pronoun she with no other context. Lauren: Yep, but when they collide it’s very complicated. From there, human broke down how languages including Nepali, Blackfoot, and some sign languages get around the gay fanfiction problem by differentiating pronouns by social status, role in a sentence, or physical placement in space, rather than just by gender as they are in English.

And the convention used is this: 1. If people are more than happy to write yaoi or male on male fics for people who aren't gay in cannon then I don't see the problem with writing a character straight in a story. If people are more than happy to write yaoi or male on male fics for people who aren't gay in cannon then I don't see the problem with writing a character straight in a story.

Sign up Log in. The Gay FanFiction Problem refers to the issue of ambiguity when more than one person is referred to by the same pronoun. Due to the second use of B, "She laughed" most likely refers to A. Honestly, it's not like an overabundance of pronouns in het is great reading, either. A snuck her A fork over to B's side and snagged one of her B blueberries.

If there are two pronouns in a row, they are assigned by the order that the participants were named in the last sentence to use identifiers. Otherwise, liberally use identifiers to keep a particular reading much more probable, as per linguistic binding.