tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-21:107147 erratic is just another way of saying not male Ariel 2015-03-19T00:25:28Z tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-21:107147:203551 2015-03-19T00:25:03Z 2015-03-19T00:25:28Z public 0 So I was thinking about representation and writing and fandom's "beige dick" (white boy slash) problem... and then I found myself considering my own writing habits. So I went through all 159 fics/ficlets I have posted to AO3 and came up with some numbers. I write mostly het but I was curious to see just how pale my fic was.<br /><br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">(&nbsp;</b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://lodessa.dreamwidth.org/203551.html#cutid1">Overall Stats</a></b><b class="cut-close">&nbsp;)</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /> <span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___2" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">(&nbsp;</b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://lodessa.dreamwidth.org/203551.html#cutid2">Looking by fandom specifically (I only included those with five or more fics posted)</a></b><b class="cut-close">&nbsp;)</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___2" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br />In conclusion: Generally speaking I have gotten better at being less white (except the whole ASOIAF situation and that's more a fandom choice situation) but I still tend to pair with my POCs with white characters and I definitely could do with writing more femslash. Really though, it does tend to be about who my OTC happens to be (which is probably not as "random" as I'd think) and who I ship them with. I don't seem to write about women of color nearly as often as men of color, either.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=lodessa&ditemid=203551" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments