Sometimes when I talk about how non-commercial my writing is, Cass is like, okay, so just do a find-replace on pronouns and stuff
And like. First of all: how dare you, but second of all lmao I can't do that! I once tried using the exact same premise for an f/f story as I had just written for an m/f story and it immediately turned into a completely different thing while also killing my desire to work on the first one. Like, I know I'm specifically attempting to write formulaic romances here, but I'm also way too navel-gazey about the subtleties of why people do shit to be able to find and replace names and pronouns!