I read mostly NC-17 when I first got into fic, flush with the new joy of OMG, my boys doing it, and not just doing it, falling in looove. Which I think is what you're saying about sex and intimacy. But once I'd exhausted most of the NC-17 that was around then, I was more or less forced to read other ratings and found just as much looove.
Then I started writing fic and some of it was NC-17 because the smut was important to the fic, and some of it was lower-rated because no sex was needed to tell the story. And that made me even readier to read fic of all ratings. So now I try to more or less ignore ratings when choosing what to read. Unless I'm in the mood for a good sexin' up, that is, which frequently happens.
And after I exhausted all the good slash of the moment (hey I read a lot), and my fic addiction needed a fix bad, I had to read gen--it was all I could get my hands on. Better than nothing, I thought, but then I discovered how much amazing genfic there was out there, most times with just as much looove--just expressed differently.
And that is my evolution as a fic reader. Still haven't written any gen yet, but someday...
As for sharing my reading habits. Not in RL, no. Only a select few, by which I mean literally two, have any idea I'm in fandom. They would not get it. But in terms of what people on the internet think? I don't care. I have yet to run across the most filthy-disgusting-baby-eating story in fandom that I adore and no one else does. Because if that story is out there, and I do adore it, I know that fandom is such that other people adore it too, and a lot of them are less shy than me in saying so. I think fandom is an extremely accepting place, that's one thing I love about it.
I go through lurking periods, but I try my best to leave feedback. I don't give the best feedback, I know, but I also know that as a writer I might like the really detailed comments the best, but I treasure each and every one.
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Then I started writing fic and some of it was NC-17 because the smut was important to the fic, and some of it was lower-rated because no sex was needed to tell the story. And that made me even readier to read fic of all ratings. So now I try to more or less ignore ratings when choosing what to read. Unless I'm in the mood for a good sexin' up, that is, which frequently happens.
And after I exhausted all the good slash of the moment (hey I read a lot), and my fic addiction needed a fix bad, I had to read gen--it was all I could get my hands on. Better than nothing, I thought, but then I discovered how much amazing genfic there was out there, most times with just as much looove--just expressed differently.
And that is my evolution as a fic reader. Still haven't written any gen yet, but someday...
As for sharing my reading habits. Not in RL, no. Only a select few, by which I mean literally two, have any idea I'm in fandom. They would not get it. But in terms of what people on the internet think? I don't care. I have yet to run across the most filthy-disgusting-baby-eating story in fandom that I adore and no one else does. Because if that story is out there, and I do adore it, I know that fandom is such that other people adore it too, and a lot of them are less shy than me in saying so. I think fandom is an extremely accepting place, that's one thing I love about it.
I go through lurking periods, but I try my best to leave feedback. I don't give the best feedback, I know, but I also know that as a writer I might like the really detailed comments the best, but I treasure each and every one.