Don't get me wrong, I do, when I'm in the mood for it, love me some meta, but if you're going to write meta, you better have worked out what exactly you think about the topic, and what you're trying to say. Unfortunately, not all meta writers seem to realize that.
I would be a lot more squicked if Chainani hadn't written it the way he did, all emotional flailing. I never got the impression reading it that I was getting some kind of gross look into his fantasies, just two young girls who were obviously head over heals for each other, with no idea what they were feeling or what to do about it. (and yeah, my own tendency to write fics about a sixteen year old boy going through hell, and then there's that fic about the forty plus year old man raping the fifteen year old girlfriend of his son, are probably a good bit more creepy) However, I would have liked for the subtext to become text, though hopefully in a way that maintained their emotionally confused flailing. And like you, I strongly suspect it remained subtext because of marketing.
This kind of thing, by the way, is exactly why I would never quit my day job to be a full-time novelist, except in the exceedingly unlikely case that I become independently wealthy. It would suck to compromise for financial reasons in the writing aspect of my life, just about the only part of it where I can be entirely myself.
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Date: 2014-06-02 05:07 pm (UTC)I would be a lot more squicked if Chainani hadn't written it the way he did, all emotional flailing. I never got the impression reading it that I was getting some kind of gross look into his fantasies, just two young girls who were obviously head over heals for each other, with no idea what they were feeling or what to do about it. (and yeah, my own tendency to write fics about a sixteen year old boy going through hell, and then there's that fic about the forty plus year old man raping the fifteen year old girlfriend of his son, are probably a good bit more creepy) However, I would have liked for the subtext to become text, though hopefully in a way that maintained their emotionally confused flailing. And like you, I strongly suspect it remained subtext because of marketing.
This kind of thing, by the way, is exactly why I would never quit my day job to be a full-time novelist, except in the exceedingly unlikely case that I become independently wealthy. It would suck to compromise for financial reasons in the writing aspect of my life, just about the only part of it where I can be entirely myself.
QFT!