Just an observation
Sunday, 4 February 2024 12:26![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
zimenaI'm used to consuming exclusively slash fiction. I have no interest in reading about het couples - perhaps unless it's written by friends. Thing is, I never seek out that kind of fic on my own. All of my favourite pairings, ever since my football slash days, have always been M/M. This is usually easy enough, because once I've found the pairing tag on sites like AO3, I can just filter on that to get the specific stuff I might enjoy.
Well, Baldur's Gate 3 made things a little more complex.
The player character in the game is named Tav by default. The default name is the same regardless of what gender and/or body type you pick. So, say, I want to look for Astarion/Tav fic? I will get a ton of hits with a female Tav.
It always throws me for a loop. Always.
In the context of fic, slash is so natural to me that I'm always momentarily surprised when I come across het.
Yes, I know I'm weird.
Well, Baldur's Gate 3 made things a little more complex.
The player character in the game is named Tav by default. The default name is the same regardless of what gender and/or body type you pick. So, say, I want to look for Astarion/Tav fic? I will get a ton of hits with a female Tav.
It always throws me for a loop. Always.
In the context of fic, slash is so natural to me that I'm always momentarily surprised when I come across het.
Yes, I know I'm weird.