Texienne
Brazen Wordsmith
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I got an ongoing story about a femdom relationship and its not a super serious story. Just two characters having weird fun and falling in love.
In the story I have this ongoing joke/storyline about the girlfriend trying to convince her boyfriend that he should do gay stuff cause she thinks its hot. And it's literally the only thing his simp ass hasn't immediately done for her.
I don't know if the boyfriend will ever actually do it.
But. I got a comment that was really nice and positive, until the last line where the anonymous person pleaded for 'less gay stuff'
And now I'm in a really weird spot where I bounce between wanting to write the absolute most gayest stuff for the boyfriend character as humanly possibly, or stray away from the gay stuff because it will turn off some of the readers who have been following the series.
Both choices would reactionary.
So I guess I'm taking a break from writing the next part until I forget about the 'less gay stuff please' request because I don't wanna have the such a request influence the story in either direction.
Anyways, this is a lot of words. So...
I'm just gonna say, it's your choice as the author whether your MMC is bi. It is perfectly possible that the FMC helps him discover his bi side, in that case. Pleasing your readers is a choice, not an obligation.
Having said that, if pleasing your readers is important to you, then you do need to gauge whether the readers you've attracted will appreciate or dislike the choice as one of your factors to consider. I have lost readers over a character discovering her bi side (although not here. It was a wattpad thing.) I learned how cis hetero romance readers can be very earnestly wedded to straight-only erotica, and will drop you. The difference for me is that it was a male partner recognizing and encouraging his SO to explore it after four chapters of hetero romance (frankly, this was what the overall story arc was about), rather than forty four. It does hurt, as a reader, to suddenly hate a story you've been following for dozens or hundreds of episodes.
An alternative, if you have a storyline you want to pursue, is another series, perhaps an alternate history version of your series or perhaps a different couple.