I don't think there's anything horrible about het. I used to love romance stories, but I never really found them hot. I found the sex scenes to be, well, boring. *g* I'm of the "one guy hot, two guys hotter" school of thought when it comes to that sort of thing. This does not even have to involve anything NC-17.
I started out reading het (fanfic), and in most new fandoms, I usually started out reading anything and everything--or I did. I've been reading it enough now that I tend to know my own preferences, so I tend towards stories I know I'm more likely to like.
In my first fandom, there were two major het couples. I liked the fic written about one couple, but not the other. I've come to realize since that this is because the first couple was written a bit more like *good* slash stories--in general. I read my share of horrible stories about that couple, too, so it's not that all the good writers flocked to the one couple, but more that one couple tended to be portrayed in a way I liked and the other wasn't.
In other fandoms, I often found het fic written that was more like the couple I didn't like and very little (none?) that was like the couple I *did* like. *g*
I think a lot of this is just personal preference. It's not that I think het is terrible, but just that I tend not to like the majority of stories that I've read so I'm less likely *now* to seek out het stories. But...this is the same with other types of stories as well. I tend not to like kid fic either, but if I happen upon a story there's always a possibility that I'd like it. I don't like action-adventure stories all that much or AU fics or any number of things. None of these would be my first choice for reading, but there are *always* exceptions. I'd just usually look for something more to my taste (angst, drama, character stories, etc.).
Also, I'm usually only reading fic because I love a certain character, usually a guy, and I'm really only interested in reading stories about that one character. Sometimes it's pairing-specific and sometimes it's not, and I probably read as much gen as anything else. Usually I'll stick with gen and slash, though, because those tend to be the stories I like best and I'm more likely to find a story I'll like that features my Very Special Character. *g*
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I started out reading het (fanfic), and in most new fandoms, I usually started out reading anything and everything--or I did. I've been reading it enough now that I tend to know my own preferences, so I tend towards stories I know I'm more likely to like.
In my first fandom, there were two major het couples. I liked the fic written about one couple, but not the other. I've come to realize since that this is because the first couple was written a bit more like *good* slash stories--in general. I read my share of horrible stories about that couple, too, so it's not that all the good writers flocked to the one couple, but more that one couple tended to be portrayed in a way I liked and the other wasn't.
In other fandoms, I often found het fic written that was more like the couple I didn't like and very little (none?) that was like the couple I *did* like. *g*
I think a lot of this is just personal preference. It's not that I think het is terrible, but just that I tend not to like the majority of stories that I've read so I'm less likely *now* to seek out het stories. But...this is the same with other types of stories as well. I tend not to like kid fic either, but if I happen upon a story there's always a possibility that I'd like it. I don't like action-adventure stories all that much or AU fics or any number of things. None of these would be my first choice for reading, but there are *always* exceptions. I'd just usually look for something more to my taste (angst, drama, character stories, etc.).
Also, I'm usually only reading fic because I love a certain character, usually a guy, and I'm really only interested in reading stories about that one character. Sometimes it's pairing-specific and sometimes it's not, and I probably read as much gen as anything else. Usually I'll stick with gen and slash, though, because those tend to be the stories I like best and I'm more likely to find a story I'll like that features my Very Special Character. *g*