>>creating pretty rigid categories that I think might warp what gets written and what doesn't
Exactly, and the effect's not limited to fic, imo. Big fandoms, at least as I experience them via my flist and network, cause me to throw a rash, usually, anyway, because the stratification of fannish preferences/production/attention/approval seems to happen ever more quickly and predictably and comprehensively.
It's a perception very much shaped by how I'm situated, exposure-wise; I'm not good-old-days-ing or anything. Just, I got to feeling either really alienated (SPN/BSG) or as though my fannish loves weren't shared by a large or cohesive enough group [with some connection to my flist/network] to make them really, you know, fannish (TSCC, A2A).
LotS is generous and funny and clever and DOESN'T CARE WHO YOU SHIP as long as Cara and Kahlan can slay each other's enemies with extreme prejudice there's lots of slo-mo knife-fighting involved. And hair streaming wildly, and, you know, general woobieness.
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Date: 2010-04-06 03:53 am (UTC)Exactly, and the effect's not limited to fic, imo. Big fandoms, at least as I experience them via my flist and network, cause me to throw a rash, usually, anyway, because the stratification of fannish preferences/production/attention/approval seems to happen ever more quickly and predictably and comprehensively.
It's a perception very much shaped by how I'm situated, exposure-wise; I'm not good-old-days-ing or anything. Just, I got to feeling either really alienated (SPN/BSG) or as though my fannish loves weren't shared by a large or cohesive enough group [with some connection to my flist/network] to make them really, you know, fannish (TSCC, A2A).
LotS is generous and funny and clever and DOESN'T CARE WHO YOU SHIP as long as
Cara and Kahlan can slay each other's enemies with extreme prejudicethere's lots of slo-mo knife-fighting involved. And hair streaming wildly, and, you know, general woobieness.::adores LotS fandom omg::