Interesting, Caroline. But neither of the fics you've cited fit - In Ad Astra, Clark moves on as well as Lois. So no double standard.
And in Demi's amazing Heaven's Prisoners, L & C are together at the end. In that story, Clark, too, was on the verge of a relationship with someone else, but like Lois with her boyfriend, he couldn't bring himself to take it to the next level. The title says it all
As well, I wanted to exclude the 'elsewhere' super long-lived Clark because that raises a whole different set of issues and has been discussed here and elsewhere.
No, it's the 'normal age" Lois and Clark fics I'm asking about. Yep, they're a minority of fics - but the double standard does exist, both with readers and writers, and I'm curious abut why it does.
so many of us are hopeless L&C shippers. I know I wouldn't write it, just because I'm here because I love to see Lois and Clark together,
Me too.
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