GeorgeGlass

Honestly, I post my stories on AFF and other sites BECAUSE they're not marketable. Nobody (nobody in their right mind, anyway) is going to pay me to write PHINEAS AND FERB porn, or even the furry stories I post on Hentai Foundry and Inkbunny. If I thought anybody would buy such things, maybe I'd slap a price tag on them.
Having had a sort of "previous life" as a fanfic writer in a different fandom years ago, I just accept the fact that there is going to be a ton of slash wherever you find fanfic. Nature of the beast, and all that.

Another factor might be that people don't come to a site called "Adultfanfiction" looking for something other than fan fiction. I imagine that some people take one glance at the Originals category and think, "That makes no sense."

Forgive my unsophisticated use of quotes, etc in this post. I haven't gotten the hang of this board's tools yet.

My wife's been trying to get me into a kilt for years. Hasn't happened yet, though, because it's still above freezing in Hell.

I agree about not deleting reviews. People who take the time to comment on a story in any detail (ie, more than just "This sux ballz") deserve that much consideration. The only reviews I've ever deleted have been ones that have pointed out some technical problem that I subsequently fixed, like when someone alerted me that my story had come out as one solid block of text. (And I thanked the reviewer for letting me know.)

I'm an editor and occasional writer (not of fiction) in my RL job, so I take the study and use of language very seriously. I just enjoy using my skills for evi- I mean, to produce niche erotica in my spare time.

I'm not sure I'm understanding your point about how the treatment of women in the media leads to slash--if that is indeed your point.

Interesting point about e-book companies. I was listening to a radio program the other day on which someone opined that e-readers have created a market for a lot of genres and formats (eg, novellas) that have little or no commercial appeal in the print market. Maybe I'll look into that, when I'm not too busy creating smut just for fun.

I completely agree. Bite-sized chapters work extremely well in some works (especially if there are a lot of simultaneous plot threads); other works need longer chapters to really get you into a scene.