he found him and then he did this to which he replied to him, "what?"

[vanitashaze]

Using pronouns in a same-sex romance? AHHHHH. It's enough to drive you to epithets.

Comments

[rheakurokawa.livejournal.com]

this is why half of any fandom ever does the same thing. the blond, the taller, the drummer, the brain-eater,the curly-haired-with-pantene-conditioner, the retarded-author-not-knowing-what-to-put-in. I say, when in doubt, use names.

[mithrel.livejournal.com]

Yeah, since they tend to not consider POV. If it's a Merlin fic from Arthur's POV where he doesn't know about Merlin's magic, he's not going to refer to Merlin as "the sorcerer." If a Dean/Cas fic is from Dean's POV, he's not going to refer to himself as "the man." Not to mention referring to Cas or Gabriel as "men" rather than "angels" or Sam as "the youngest Winchester," since there are only two of them. They were given names for a reason!

[rheakurokawa.livejournal.com]

yes, exactly.

[vanitashaze.livejournal.com]

Erk. See, I have this thing about epithets - "the blond man", "the angel", etc. - where I just cannot do them. At all. (Unless it's an outsider POV fic.) It has to do with authorial bleed into character POV. I mean, do you wake up, and think, hmm. The blue-eyed man has forgotten to take out the trash again? Neit. It's, oh for God's sakes, David didn't take out the recycling either. Bloody hell. People think about people with pronouns or names, when they're intimate, unless they're suddenly and sharply made aware of some other classification for their boo, and for me, using epithets reads as a moment of severe jarring.

[rheakurokawa.livejournal.com]

yes yes

[sinkwriter.livejournal.com]

HAHAHHAHAAA

I know! It drives me batty! My brain starts to explode, trying to follow that kind of sentence. Who's saying what to whom? *head desk*

[vanitashaze.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I especially love those really, REALLY long chains of same-sex dialogue, where they occasionally repeat themselves and forget to use names and it's either he said / he said / he said or no dialogue tags at all. Oh yes. Fun times.