People can't read, in general. Is the problem. I mean, granted, I knew you were writing a non-canon pairing to begin with, but the summary does clearly state that Ann is involved.
I will get you some blinky green lights if you like. There must be some in the junk room somewhere. They might be from the 1970s. But I'm sure they exist.
I love the word heteronormative. It's the result of being educated at a super liberal college.
But when you look at Parks--yes, there are no major gay/lesbian/bi characters on the show, and April--who once had the most transgressive relationship on the show--is now part of the show's only two marriages. Yet this is a show that has had several scenes at a gay bar, that had a male character confess to having had gay thoughts, that shows a physically affectionate relationship between two female friends. While Parks is, like you said, largely heteronormative, it offers enough leeway that seeing slash pairings or threesomes is not absurd.
I agree with stillscape. If people can't read, that's not your problem. Whatever their stance is, it's not like they would have been surprised that it wasn't just a Ben/Leslie story if they read the summary.
And writing IS hard! I haven't really written anything for the Parks fandom because it takes such of lot of work to write something and I'm way intimidated by it all.
Agreed, it seemed pretty obvious that a threesome fic was not going to be a straight Leslie/Ben story, and I don't know how you could have indicated it any other way without giving away your ending. *sigh* Don't let the one anon commenter get to you too much.
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I will get you some blinky green lights if you like. There must be some in the junk room somewhere. They might be from the 1970s. But I'm sure they exist.
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But when you look at Parks--yes, there are no major gay/lesbian/bi characters on the show, and April--who once had the most transgressive relationship on the show--is now part of the show's only two marriages. Yet this is a show that has had several scenes at a gay bar, that had a male character confess to having had gay thoughts, that shows a physically affectionate relationship between two female friends. While Parks is, like you said, largely heteronormative, it offers enough leeway that seeing slash pairings or threesomes is not absurd.
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And writing IS hard! I haven't really written anything for the Parks fandom because it takes such of lot of work to write something and I'm way intimidated by it all.
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