The ongoing fight in the comment section...
In the comments I keep seeing the same argument, first someone comments about how they want more sexualy explicit content, then they get mixed replies either agreeing or disgusted because main charecters are teenagers.
Both of these respones are wrong.
Focusing on "WhO's ToP AnD bOtTOm" and sexual content takes away from the writing of the story, and as the author has answered before, neither define their relationship because she doesn't want to confine/limit them, and as much as I want to believe that writing sexulity into a story doesn't cheapen a story IN BL IT DOES!! As soon as sexuality is introduced writers and readers alike subsitue personality for sexuallity so the top is DoMinIeNt, SmArT, rIcH aNd CoOl and the bottom is naivie and girly. LIKE WTF THEY ARE NOT CHARECTERS THEY ARE JUST A LOOSE COLLECTION OF TRAITS!!!!!!
In saying that I also don't like the reponse of "that's disgusting they are in high school", ONLY because I think that the readers are also primarly teenages(hopefully at least), and it's completely normal to sexualize people close to youself in age. Personally, I'm a teenager so reading this story in a high school setting and with 18 year olds isn't "fetishizing" anyone, but it's just a story in a setting that I can relate to. Because I do like sexuality as a theme, I just hate when it becomes the whole story.
In the comments I keep seeing the same argument, first someone comments about how they want more sexualy explicit content, then they get mixed replies either agreeing or disgusted because main charecters are teenagers.
Both of these respones are wrong.
Focusing on "WhO's ToP AnD bOtTOm" and sexual content takes away from the writing of the story, and as the author has answered before, neither define their relationship because she doesn't want to confine/limit them, and as much as I want to believe that writing sexulity into a story doesn't cheapen a story IN BL IT DOES!! As soon as sexuality is introduced writers and readers alike subsitue personality for sexuallity so the top is DoMinIeNt, SmArT, rIcH aNd CoOl and the bottom is naivie and girly. LIKE WTF THEY ARE NOT CHARECTERS THEY ARE JUST A LOOSE COLLECTION OF TRAITS!!!!!!
In saying that I also don't like the reponse of "that's disgusting they are in high school", ONLY because I think that the readers are also primarly teenages(hopefully at least), and it's completely normal to sexualize people close to youself in age. Personally, I'm a teenager so reading this story in a high school setting and with 18 year olds isn't "fetishizing" anyone, but it's just a story in a setting that I can relate to. Because I do like sexuality as a theme, I just hate when it becomes the whole story.
