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Post by kristraverse on Jul 25, 2017 21:59:30 GMT
I like the ideas Byrony sets forth. I have felt shy about saying "Hey I have a new story posted" but that may just be me. I am always willing to hear feed back from anyone, good and bad. Byrony, thanks for starting this thread.
And Christina - typical. You attention seeking w..... :-p
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Post by rebeccajane on Jul 25, 2017 22:08:04 GMT
I agree with Bryony, the logistics of creating, hosting, and limiting the type of fiction would honestly be too great. As much as I don't care for 90% of what constitutes Tg fiction on FM I'm going to continue posting there. Even if my stories get completely buried by the kink that is mostly posted there. I almost didn't post my story at all, because I was afraid that nobody there cared for the type story I wanted to tell. No sex, no humiliation, no bondage... It's just a story about a young person overcoming insurmountable odds and challenges.
Trying to find stories that I enjoy to read on FM are painful to say the least, because I have to shovel through so much crap. I'm thankful I went the extra mile though, simply because thats where I found most of the stories that were written by the people here. I have no clue if this will make any sense or not, but the fiction I want to read involves a story that has a TG character in it thats story driven and not a TG story thats driven by the transition...
I have noticed though that even though I disliked the forced fem to a decent character for simply sadistic reasons with no retribution for said character stories, since going through my own life the past several years I've have even less patience for the stories that seek only to humiliate or debase the main character. After having to endure what happened when I was forced to 'come out' by my ex, those type stories don't just leave a bad taste in my mouth, they literally make me livid.
I'm happy sharing our favorite stories here, talking about subjects like this, sharing ideas and things like that. I still need to go through and list more of my favorite stories, when I slow down some.
Anyways, I hope you all keep writing and sharing, From your giant fan-girl Becca
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Post by Bryony Marsh on Jul 26, 2017 21:58:05 GMT
I like the ideas Byrony sets forth. I have felt shy about saying "Hey I have a new story posted" but that may just be me. I am always willing to hear feed back from anyone, good and bad. Byrony, thanks for starting this thread. And Christina - typical. You attention seeking w..... :-p You’re among friends, here. If you have a new story posted somewhere and you’d like me to read and leave a review in situ... no problem. (Fictionmania preferred, but I can create an account somewhere else if necessary.)
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Post by Sam on Jul 26, 2017 22:55:06 GMT
I have felt that as well Kris about saying "Here`s my new story its on ..... and yet I do not have to if folks read the story all well an good.
Their is also the tendency for serial or multi part stories to have a drop off in reviews getting posted although not necessary a drop of in readers.
As authors what are we looking our readers to leave comments, of any form, or reader numbers. Well our egos wish comments as they have read the story, reader numbers only indicate someone looked at the story.
Most sites tend to allow Guest Readers to post comments on a Story under Guest Reader which for me is not a good idea.
I do post of FM and BC
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Post by kristraverse on Jul 27, 2017 1:20:01 GMT
Byrony thank for the nice words. And Sam I am glad I am not the only one who felt that way.
And I will announce I did post a short story llast night on BC. I have posted my main story on FM from the beginning, but when I came up with a new spin on my story, I decided to post those bits only on BC. It was my little form of protest over FM's content. I will say it is a non-TG story but features two of my main characters. Please come over and check it out and let me know what you think
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Post by Sam on Jul 27, 2017 6:42:10 GMT
Kris I read this new story yesterday and thought I had posted a comment and went back and noticed it is not their? I also signed it as Sam as you would link it to me instead of signing off as Samantha Ann,
I loved the story of how Alexa shows her unconditional support for her friend Katie, and whats wrong with being a Grandmother at the age of 37.
I remember when moving to another High School for Five and Sixth year studies one Girl was pregnant at school and If I remember correctly was in Sixth year and stayed at the school.
In the early 70`s it was still seen as a disgrace to be a single mum, for some reason where I stay their appears to be a lot of young mothers weather they are married or not as their is a trend these days to live together and not marry.
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Post by Chrissy on Jul 27, 2017 10:54:24 GMT
On the subject of sexism and TG fiction, since discovering the genre I've been struck several times by the abundance of misogynistic portrayals of women. We've all seen it: the classic example is the 'femdom' sub-genre, where females are constantly depicted as being callous, scheming, deceitful, heartless and so on. I'm fully aware (even if I don't truly get it) that it's a rather popular sexual fantasy thing, but I can't help thinking that it does the real struggle for understanding and acceptance no good whatsoever. Okay, there's room for pretty much everything in fiction but there is, as I say, a plethora of the "soulless bitch" trope. What's everyone else's view on this?
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Post by kristraverse on Jul 27, 2017 12:43:36 GMT
I agree with you completely Chrissy about the soulless bitch syndrome. And this is coming from somebody who has written one as a secondary character. I see too many of these stories that formulatic. Wife is a bitch who wants to screw around with the hunk of the month, turns husband into a whimpering sissy maid. Shoves a feather duster up his arse and does the hunk right there in front of husband. It's like it's a country song, gotta talk about mama, my truck, drinking beer except it's being passed off as a story. Both Christina and Debbs know my feelings on these stories. I have no time. They actually influenced me in my story how not to be.
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Post by rebeccajane on Jul 27, 2017 14:30:26 GMT
On some small degree I can see how some of the authors started out having the main character 'relinquish' their power to their partner. Many people were raised that to be a 'man' you had to have control of your life, your surroundings, your emotions... I can see how they might idealize that giving up that power would be desirable. I read some authors that in their early stories, but then their stories evolved into being masochistic and frankly evil. I guess some people 'get off' on that crap. Before everything happened in my life like it did, I didn't mind some of the slighter versions, where relinquishing that power was a mutual agreement which made the couple stronger overall. Sadly though those stories never happen anymore, although after everything that happened to me... I don't think I could even stomach a lite version anymore..
Becca
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Post by Anna on Jul 27, 2017 15:31:33 GMT
...females are constantly depicted as being callous, scheming, deceitful, heartless and so on. Doctor Cecelia Davenport??? I too don't get sissification, I get a bit of the surrendering power but more in a surrendering responsibility way and I personally think that the appeal would wear off rather quickly. I don't get cuckolding in the slightest but then I don't get a lot of kinks, like how can having a dirty nappy turn people on? Weird. I sometimes wonder whether some of these stories are written by women who would like to do that to their man rather than men wishing it upon themselves. Or is that just a further example of my lack of understanding? By the way Doc Davenport will get hers eventually, but for now she can far too much fun. Just wait until one of her friends gets kidnapped, someone very close to all the Angels.
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Post by rebeccajane on Jul 27, 2017 16:46:17 GMT
...females are constantly depicted as being callous, scheming, deceitful, heartless and so on. Doctor Cecelia Davenport??? Except you gave enough backstory for the Doc to show WHY she became like she was, she felt like the 'hero' that saw to much and crossed the line.. I liked the character, even if I was mad at her. Strangely enough it was moreso in the second story in some of her comments to Danni that made me all mad at her again. At the end of Danni's story she was shown to not be heartless, and I was okay with her at that point. The stories that piss me off the most was the partner that appeared to be loving and kind all of a sudden become a hateful conniving witch, for no apparent reason. Becca
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Post by Chrissy on Jul 27, 2017 16:56:25 GMT
The stories that piss me off the most was the partner that appeared to be loving and kind all of a sudden become a hateful conniving witch, for no apparent reason. Becca I'm with you on that one, Becca, and pretty much the same on your view of the Devious Doctor. My original point was about how the frequent portrayal of women as inherently unpleasant reflects upon TG fiction as a whole. Not well, I'd say.
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Post by Chrissy on Jul 28, 2017 10:49:00 GMT
This made interesting reading - a few 'frothing at the mouth' right-wing comments, but that's hardly surprising in The Torygraph: Straight men in drag
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Post by Sam on Jul 28, 2017 11:24:45 GMT
Very interesting indeed although there is a massive different between a drag queen and a cross dresser where one tends to be over the top and "in your face" whereas cross dressers tend to want to blend in and mostly be inconspicuous.
The stand out issues for cross dressers is we wish to dress more often than not with dresses and skirts and rarely where trousers - my woman side dislikes trousers as being unladylike well I am not a lady just have respect for woman.
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