They aren't any harder than any other trope out there; it's just so few people *try*. And we're willing to institutionalize freaking AMTDI and mpreg but quail at deathless love.

Something is *wrong* with that, when I can get critical examinations of genderswitch and the nodding thoughts on this, that, the other, and in all of those, both highly acclaimed and not, there's just as much a bend and it's handwaved as part of the experience.

Though I keep in mind we disagree on both of the fics above, so yeah. *g*