30 Days of Fanfic Writing Meme (day 6)

[jennickels]

6 - When you write, do you prefer writing male or female characters?

This is an easy one.  Looking through my fic (published and not) I can unequivocally say I'm much more comfortable writing from a male POV.  Probably because I've never really "gotten" girls.  I am a girl but that's about as much of common ground I have with most women.  I was

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[jennickels]

I was just on twitter and saw this on my timeline and was wondering who and what you were talking about now. Then 2 seconds later my little tool thing on the bottom of my screen pops up and says I have a new LJ message and I find out that twitter was to me, lol.

Sorry, I'm a little slap-happy right now and need to get to bed. I just found that really funny.

Oh, when I was a kid and I'd play Barbies with my friend I was ALWAYS the guy dolls (we had many...how else to you create drama and angst?). She controlled the girls (none of them named Barbie) and we split the kids. We had a very elaborate organization for "playing" Barbies. We thought out long, contrived story lines and called them "episodes". They were crazy with people dying and kids orphaned and one guy always having to step up and take in the orphaned kids and unwanted babies and girls smacking guys because they were idiots. They were hilarious. When I went off to college she presented me with my favorite doll as kind of a gag gift. It sat on my desk until I got married.

I'll never forget the 3 main characters--a love triangle: Donnie McFly, Midge Stevenson and Mickey Heart, lol. So corny (most of the names were corny). Donnie was always in love with Midge who always ended up with someone else and Mickey was always her best friend who was sometimes in love with her but knew Donnie was head over heals so would step aside.

--the sanity, iz haz lost it--

[campylobacter]

My parents bought me & my sister female dolls until one day they noticed my Ballerina Barbie ("Barbara") sleeping nude with my sister's Princess Leia ("Carrie").

However, Ken had a stupid grin on his face and wore scarves and was soon found naked with my brother's GI Joe.

Lordy, I was slashing my dolls before I knew what slash even WAS!

[jennickels]

That's freaking hilarious. I'm pretty sure we had a few gay dolls back then. We had just about every kind of doll.