Bashing isn't cool, for any reason. With sign-ups, when they give you the space to state your preferences, that's what it's for-preferences. It's not a public forum for character/pair bashing or kink shaming.
I do know what you mean about writing for minority tastes. I do it with my dark fic. It definitely disheartened me when signing up for paperlegends this past year. I was convinced that I'd never get an artist to volunteer for my story. I was resigned to going in as a stand-alone. (Thankfully, I was wrong! I got three volunteers and some of the very best art in the fest!)
As for not pointing it out to the mods, I have been thinking about mentioning the above issue to the mods over at merlin_finders because it is where I see that the most over here on LJ. Unfortunately, there is nothing to be done about ff.net.
(And I agree with you that it's sad that our society is so anti senior-sex/love. I am not, I love to think that everyone, everywhere, at every legal age is getting their groove on. I sure as hell never intend to stop getting mine on if I have any say in the matter!)
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I do know what you mean about writing for minority tastes. I do it with my dark fic. It definitely disheartened me when signing up for paperlegends this past year. I was convinced that I'd never get an artist to volunteer for my story. I was resigned to going in as a stand-alone. (Thankfully, I was wrong! I got three volunteers and some of the very best art in the fest!)
As for not pointing it out to the mods, I have been thinking about mentioning the above issue to the mods over at
(And I agree with you that it's sad that our society is so anti senior-sex/love. I am not, I love to think that everyone, everywhere, at every legal age is getting their groove on. I sure as hell never intend to stop getting mine on if I have any say in the matter!)