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Post by dolly on Jun 18, 2011 20:14:49 GMT -5
i enjoy reading *any* stories involving men in wheelchairs. lol the reason for my preference (besides our incredibly under-represented status!) is that "c" stories always seem to end up making me feel like i wish that i wasn't a dev and that i could "just" fall for a guy who "happens" to be disabled... without all of the messy, complicated, "unusual" dev stuff. so in the end they kind of make me feel a bit yucky and badly about myself because no matter how much i wish that could happen (obviously this is a common fantasy for us), it never can. whereas reading from a dev's perspective makes me feel more normal, more "usual", less alone. also, i expect there would be a greater, more obvious attention paid to the little details that i so enjoy. if i were to write myself, i'd likely stick with "b" or "c" because it wouldn't require as much introspection and self-exposure. however those are the very reasons i'd prefer to read someone else's work from that perspective. it's nice to imagine that it's possible to meet the "right" person, who happens to be in a wheelchair, as my true self... a dev. now there's a fantasy in every sense of the word!! lmao i just appreciate the efforts of everyone who takes the time to write stories and share them with us. i'm woefully behind in reading a lot of them, but love that they are there and available. so a big thanks to all of the authors in our midst!
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Post by ruthmadison on Jun 18, 2011 21:19:50 GMT -5
Excellent point, Dolly! I know what you mean, the frustration of reading stories where these girls who aren't even looking for disabled guys have them appear! It feels so unfair. lol.
I'm trying something new with two of the stories in the new collection, where the girls are devs. In one she is a bit introspective, but in the other one she doesn't examine it, doesn't question it, it just is. I'm curious to see how people take that one.
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Post by anisanara on Jun 19, 2011 1:56:05 GMT -5
Old Country (Home Country) is a great (even its too short story)...its a type C story right?? and its so close to my imagination all this time...... lof priyanka and deepak....
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Post by Dee Dee on Jun 19, 2011 5:09:30 GMT -5
Lol. Well, even if I write C stories, I promise the girls will never say "I've learned to see past it" or "I love him anyway"! Hahaha, same here. I mean, please! I would NEVER write that. I doubt ANY dev would ever write that. It's a typical non-dev sentence. No, my female protagonist doesn't love him "despite his disability", she's not "learning to love him", she just loves him, period, from the moment she sees him. And he's the hottest guy she's ever seen in her entire life. But she's not a dev. BTW, I strongly believe this scenario is a quite realistic one. It's what many of the guys here have trouble believing: That even someone who's not a dev could find them hot. It's simply not true that only a dev can be attracted to a guy in a chair. When people fall in love, they fall in love. Yes and yes.
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Post by ruthmadison on Jun 19, 2011 7:11:08 GMT -5
Old Country (Home Country) is a great (even its too short story)...its a type C story right?? and its so close to my imagination all this time...... lof priyanka and deepak.... Yes, that's a type C one. Wouldn't it be crazy awesome if one were to have an arranged marriage and the guy turned out to be Deepak? That's my dream!
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Post by Inigo Montoya on Jun 19, 2011 10:02:03 GMT -5
Hahaha, same here. I mean, please! I would NEVER write that. I doubt ANY dev would ever write that. It's a typical non-dev sentence. No, my female protagonist doesn't love him "despite his disability", she's not "learning to love him", she just loves him, period, from the moment she sees him. And he's the hottest guy she's ever seen in her entire life. But she's not a dev. BTW, I strongly believe this scenario is a quite realistic one. It's what many of the guys here have trouble believing: That even someone who's not a dev could find them hot. It's simply not true that only a dev can be attracted to a guy in a chair. When people fall in love, they fall in love. Yeah! I try to take every chance I get to tell them that too. Which actually seems a little self defeating, I guess. But there are too few of us, particularly here, to wait for the right dev to appear. And what dolly said, too.
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Post by roger888 on Jun 19, 2011 10:15:00 GMT -5
It's what many of the guys here have trouble believing: That even someone who's not a dev could find them hot. It's simply not true that only a dev can be attracted to a guy in a chair. When people fall in love, they fall in love. Absolutely right ,but it's something we have to find out for ourselves.Someone can tell us every day from now up to Christmas,but there will always be some doubt there until we see it with our own eyes.
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