like, idk. i was reading fanfiction long before i trooned out. i was reading fanfiction before i even had troon thoughts.

i wrote some really shitty fanfiction when i was like 11 or 12 or something and i only remember that because a couple years ago a bot left a comment on something and i got an email.

but i also definitely act malebrained. i dont actually care about any of this stuff, its just true. i brute forced learned how to socialize like the guys around me. just hiding all the stuff i actually liked to avoid getting bullied and called a faggot. and thats sort of become ingrained in me.

like, my current personality is a mix of the sensitive loser who got bullied in middle school with the normal guy i learned to be high school. and it definitely feels like most people who do actually care about this stuff, would say im malebrained probably

  • j3n
    4·
    6 days ago

    tbh yeah its super fembrained. i have not run into a single guy thats read fanfics, but ive connected with a good few women over fanfics before

    >i brute forced learned how to socialize like the guys around me. just hiding all the stuff i actually liked to avoid getting bullied and called a faggot. and thats sort of become ingrained in me.

    also trvke this is me too

    • UnfortunatelyAlexOP
      1·
      6 days ago

      its kind of crazy really. im only a functional person because i was mlre afraid of being seen as a loser and bullied than i was of social interaction.

      forced myself to do extracurriculars and stuff, watched older classmates and learned to mimic them. eventually found my own groove and was generally likable enough by most despite never fully shaking the faggot coding completely ig

    • UnfortunatelyAlexOP
      2·
      6 days ago

      i got to a point on ao3 where i wouldnt read anything less than a 100k words tbh. i need that shit to be a slow burn

  • Narcissus
    3·
    6 days ago

    its certainly not conventional heterosexual male brained. its at minimum faggot behaviour. on the other hand its not like every woman or homo reads this stuff just a certain section of the english speaking internet.

    • UnfortunatelyAlexOP
      3·
      6 days ago

      ah, thats what it is. terminally online lonely westoid loser brained. that feels more accurate

  • Lengthofdry1943
    3·
    6 days ago

    Yeah, usually. I ended up kicking it because I thought it was making me feel worse about being lonely or whatever. I think the male brained stuff is more survival then anything tho because social interaction and just being in public is a sort of traumatic thing all on its own.

  • JohnDood
    2·
    6 days ago

    Depends, but i found that some het males actually participate in specific forms of fan fics. You won’t find them on AO3, but you will find them flocking on other sites. They would also never admit that its fan fic either.

    • UnfortunatelyAlexOP
      2·
      6 days ago

      yeah but im also a faketrans AAP misandrist cis man actually. so i could be the first

  • puppyoomf
    1·
    6 days ago

    i mean obviously any individual action or habit doesnt make someone a man or a woman by itself but the demographic of fanfiction readers has to be one of the most female of about any hobby i can imagine

    • UnfortunatelyAlexOP
      1·
      6 days ago

      i havent had the time really to read much recently. but idk really. stuff i read felt pretty basic. just what if takes on the original works. long narratives, slow burns.

      i never read anything abo related. that stuff was too weird for me. also dont really like modern/insert different setting here AUs or super wack crossovers. im kind of boring.