Where are the happy, chill lesbians?

[joy_of_cooking]

Sorry for the provocative title.

I've been reading some LS stories recently, including works by AH regulars like @onehitwanda @THBGato @Areala-chan and noticing this pattern where... They're all sad. Like, really, all of them, as far as I can tell. The characters have these tragic back stories. They're all fresh out of bad break ups, or they cut themselves, or they're super lonely. Something. And then they have these incredibly dramatic interactions where they fall madly in love but somehow it all goes terribly wrong for essentially stupid reasons like they've convinced themselves they're unlovable or they refuse to talk to people or something.

I'm obviously exaggerating. @Jackie.Hikaru has https://www.literotica.com/s/mistress-beatrix @genzsub has a bunch of stories like https://www.literotica.com/s/how-i-became-a-lesbian-sex-slave (amazing title, by the way).

But it feels like LS really likes sad angsty women crying about their extremely dramatic internal or interpersonal conflicts.

Do I just have a bad sample?

 

[WCSGarland]

Sounds like there is a niche ripe for exploration... happy, chill, lesbians

 

[AwkwardlySet]

I suspect you aren't the target audience for such stories.
Yes, LS has a good deal of such stories, and those are the stories that do best ratings/views/comments-wise. They are the mom-son stories of the LS category.

Edit: Judging by your portfolio, you might enjoy some of my stories @joy_of_cooking

 

[Jackie.Hikaru]

You forgot to mention my story, Puanani’s Popsicles
in which a lesbian is quite literally chilled.

But it feels like LS really likes sad angsty women crying about their extremely dramatic internal or interpersonal conflicts.

As long as we’re generalizing here… it might be helpful to reframe your sweeping characterization (caricaturization) of the stories to instead thinking about it in terms of raw and unmitigated emotional honesty written in the context of self discovery clashing with internalized societal norms. Then might it follow that queer readers are deeply connecting with these stories?

 

[Areala-chan]

Broken writers write broken characters.

"Write what you know."

And knowing is half the battle.

 

[Bamagan]

Broken writers write broken characters.

"Write what you know."

And knowing is half the battle.

I was surprised to learn that only 10% of the battle (on average) is actual fighting. The other 40% is taunting and/or posturing.

 

[StillStunned]

I suspect that the happy lesbians have better things to do than write.

 

[stickygirl]

What an odd remark to make. Given that their portfolios are ablaze with red H's, I think it says more about you than them.

 

[onehitwanda]

Life is pain, and Art mirrors life. Joy is fleeting, but sorrow lingers for a season.

People appreciate happiness, and sometimes find pleasure in the happiness of others, but it's hard to write happy without it being saccharine. Happiness is the payoff - the potential happy-ever-after or the more likely happy-for-a-while is only worth something if it has been earned.

Finally, I'm a broken writer, © @Areala-chan. I write sad, overwrought stuff because it's what I need to write. Any happy that I wrote would come out reading like the bipolar scrawlings of a lunatic, and I'm not there yet.

 

[EmilyMiller]

What a strange observation to make. I think a lot of LS stories are more reflective of real life, and maybe more literary, than other categories. That’s a good thing, IMO.

 

[StillStunned]

Now I'm curious. If the "broken writers" argument is true - and I'm in no position to judge whether it is or it isn't* - do the Gay Male and Transgender categories show the same pattern?

* I don't think of myself as broken, but my recent Lesbian story "Tammy, Jessica, Yuliya" did draw on some personal issues of mine.