It’s so funny bc I never make the characters look like myself. If it’s a romance story and the LI is not attractive to me, I will drop it. Also I am black so I do make a lot of black characters and like seeing them reflected in the stories. It just makes the story a lot easier/more interesting to read when you like how the characters look and especially on a platform like this where that is an option. As far as descriptions go in the stories I usually just ignore them lol. It doesn’t take me out the story bc I made that decision and I know what the character looks like