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I highly doubt anyone who cares about this topic is going to be reading my conversation posts, but I've been getting many comments talking about this (even recently,) on my Angel x Reader, and I feel as though I should explain myself for those who want to hear my side.
There are many people who don't like it when writers make their Angel Dust x Readers to be x female readers, seeing how Angel is clearly gay in the show and canonically has no interest in women at all. To be clear, I have no problem if you feel this way. It's easy for me to see how frustrating it must be as a male to find x male readers when so many fanfic writers are women. I can also see how frustrating it must be to look for fanfiction of a gay character, only to find that the majority of fics with that character have x female readers, despite the character's sexuality. I understand your frustration, but at the same time, if it frustrates you, you should not read my fic.
Back when it was still a work in progress, someone commented on the fic expressing how they felt they had wasted their time reading it, as they had assumed they had finally found a gender-neutral/male reader for an Angel fic, only to make it all the way to the first lemon chapter to find that the reader was actually female. After reading that, I made sure to change the description and the first chapter to state that the fic was an x female reader, so that wouldn't happen to anyone again.
I've been writing x female readers for the same reason male readers wouldn't want to read an x female reader fic. It doesn't represent me. X readers are nothing more than nameless self-inserts for the writer, and I'm not going to write myself as a man, because I'm not a man. There's nothing more to it. I can assure you I wasn't trying to erase Angel's sexuality or cover up gay representation, it was simply because I was a female who liked Angel Dust.
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