You're totally right. It is a useful way to expand your horizons (I've definitely written ships/gotten ideas that I never would've thought of or done on my own) but also limiting in its own way. It's funny - the Clois fic idea actually was because of someone back on LJ drawing a "role reversal"/"Superwoman" AU based off of Tom Welling's Vogue photoshoot, if I remember correctly. Over a decade later, I finally got around to trying to write it! :D
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You're totally right. It is a useful way to expand your horizons (I've definitely written ships/gotten ideas that I never would've thought of or done on my own) but also limiting in its own way. It's funny - the Clois fic idea actually was because of someone back on LJ drawing a "role reversal"/"Superwoman" AU based off of Tom Welling's Vogue photoshoot, if I remember correctly. Over a decade later, I finally got around to trying to write it! :D