AUGH! How could I forget Fathom Five! It's right at the top of my 'Fics I Worship' list.
That is a great list! Thank you! I have read a few of them, but my memory is fuzzy, I will need to revisit them. Idella's Resurrection is one of my all time favourite. My stomach does little flips every time I read it. The writing is so gorgeous.
Why is there so much happy-ending and/or William-obsessed fanfic being written now? Why is it so popular with the general readership, almost to the exclusion of anything else?
I am not sure I can answer this without sounding like an arrogant elitist bitch.
Oh well...
A)babyfic has always been a popular genre I don't think this is a recent phenomenon.
B)less writers means less quality writing. It means more pedestrian, predictable stories. The mediocre quality stuff that used to fade in the background back in the days because we had so many awesome writers to pay attention to is now back center stage because the fandom royalty has buggered off.
C)Again, I'll be an old fart and ask: is it possible that the current general readership is less well read than the old one and therefore less discerning? I've noticed the shift in various forums where I hang out, from Oh No They Didn't to TV Com, to Reddit - how less articulate people seem to be in general, than say, 15 years ago. In the old days, the computer savvy people tended to be the literate, highly educated kind. But today everybody is online. Therefore there might be a 'downward tug' in terms of readership desires and expectations, less TS Eliot, more Entertainment Weekly.
ETA: damn I really must go to bed, but I need to add this: I'm not saying happy fics or baby fics are inherently bad, but that bad stories often seem to fall in those categories. Am I making sense?
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Date: 2014-09-16 09:22 pm (UTC)That is a great list! Thank you! I have read a few of them, but my memory is fuzzy, I will need to revisit them. Idella's Resurrection is one of my all time favourite. My stomach does little flips every time I read it. The writing is so gorgeous.
Why is there so much happy-ending and/or William-obsessed fanfic being written now? Why is it so popular with the general readership, almost to the exclusion of anything else?
I am not sure I can answer this without sounding like an arrogant elitist bitch.
Oh well...
A)babyfic has always been a popular genre I don't think this is a recent phenomenon.
B)less writers means less quality writing. It means more pedestrian, predictable stories. The mediocre quality stuff that used to fade in the background back in the days because we had so many awesome writers to pay attention to is now back center stage because the fandom royalty has buggered off.
C)Again, I'll be an old fart and ask: is it possible that the current general readership is less well read than the old one and therefore less discerning? I've noticed the shift in various forums where I hang out, from Oh No They Didn't to TV Com, to Reddit - how less articulate people seem to be in general, than say, 15 years ago. In the old days, the computer savvy people tended to be the literate, highly educated kind. But today everybody is online. Therefore there might be a 'downward tug' in terms of readership desires and expectations, less TS Eliot, more Entertainment Weekly.
ETA: damn I really must go to bed, but I need to add this: I'm not saying happy fics or baby fics are inherently bad, but that bad stories often seem to fall in those categories. Am I making sense?