[ SECRET POST #2861 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2861 ⌋

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Comments

[intrigueing]

Well, I'd be delighted if the proportion of romance fics to gen fics dropped to something like 1:3, but seriously dude? Romance is a part of life. And it's a pretty interesting and important part of life. I know those people who gush about how romance is the end-all-be-all of living are annoying, but romance is not something super special or different or separate from the the rest of life. It's just an aspect of human nature alongside all the other aspects of human nature. Why should it be excluded?

Actually, now I'm wondering if you're just a troll who wants to lol at shippers going HDU, or trying to give gen fans a bad rap...

[(Anonymous)]

Romance can be annoyingly overrepresented but it is, like you said, normal. I mean, we're basically evolutionarily programmed to avoid death and get sex to pass on our genes to future generations (and make sure those offspring survive to do the same). Conflicts surrounding that -- surviving, getting sex, protecting those we love -- are really compelling to us on a basic evolutionary level because for those it wasn't compelling to, they were less likely to successfully survive and reproduce, thus diluting their effects on the overall population.

[(Anonymous)]

Actually, now I'm wondering if you're just a troll who wants to lol at shippers going HDU, or trying to give gen fans a bad rap...

MTE.

It's trolls like that what cause unrest.

[(Anonymous)]

Not to mention that the source a great deal of fanfic comes from could arguably be considered 'gen' so why be surprised when people want to add that potentially missing element to it by exploring the characters romantic lives?

[intrigueing]

I don't think that's what the OP was getting at though. There are usually about 783645873673 non-romantic "missing elements" to explore in fanfic (this is why I find the extreme overemphasis on romance so fucking irritating) and I personally AM surprised that out of all those possibilities, everyone just explores and re-explores nothing but romance to the point of repeating cliches of cliches.

But romance is not somehow wildly different from those other missing elements. It's a part of the characters' lives too and there's no reason for it to be segregated out. For that matter, mixing and matching is a thing -- you can have a shippy fic with other elements too! Y'know, like real life. ;)

[(Anonymous)]

Really? Very few canons contain no shipping at all. Even kids' TV shows have parents, canon couples, etc.

Unless we're talking about a fandom for The Very Hungry Caterpillar or something, and even then the caterpillar goes off to find a mate at the end of the book, by implication.

[(Anonymous)]

That's probably part of what ayrt is getting at. "Gen" can't possibly mean "no shipping at all," because nearly everything has some sort of relationship in it.