[ SECRET POST #3043 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3043 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Please keep writing genfic. Gen fic is the best fic. The rabid shippers might be more noisy about smut, but genfic fans are just as appreciative in a quieter way. You genfic authors are sorely needed in all fandoms.

I've seen too many people drop great fics because they feel they have to lever in some smut or shipping and they just don't like writing that. I hate that there is this meme that fanfic is all about the smut and the shipping and always has been. It just is not true. The gen was always more important, but the smut always got more talked about.

[(Anonymous)]

Unfortunately, the smut is what gets the clicks and comments/kudos. If I'm feeling lonesome I write something spicy, even if I'm neutral on a pairing. Et voilà! Activity in my in box. Perversely, I find this depressing because often times my careful crafted case fics get tumbleweeds.

[(Anonymous)]

You're pretty much an example of an obnoxious gen fan, aren't you?

[(Anonymous)]

Really? Given that gen fic is pretty much drowned out by metric fuckloads of shipping, I can't say I blame gen fans when some of them occasionally get obnoxious in their frustration.

It just feels ridiculous to me to be butthurt at gen fans for being annoyed at having to scour and scrounge for gen, when we het/slash fans generally have so much het/slash fic to gorge ourselves on that we couldn't even begin to finish it all.

/rabidly OTP-centric fan here

[(Anonymous)]

DA

Except they didn't say they were annoyed and frustrated at having to scour for gen. They were self-important and judgemental over the stuff that doesn't fit their special little criteria, and that's why they were obnoxious.

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+1 Now I wouldn't say ALL the best fic is genfic, since some of the fics that IMO would be on the list of "best fics I've ever read" are slash or het fics. But genfic is definitely rarer and fandoms are way more in need of more good solid honest-to-god genfic, which tend to be rare even in fandoms are cranking out more shippy fic than they can shake a stick at.

And also, I think writing a great and satisfying genfic is a whole lot more impressive than writing a good and satisfying shippy fic. It (usually) takes much more ambition and originality and creativity to craft something compelling and fulfilling without the crutch of shipping (not that shipping is inherently bad, obviously, but, just like in Hollywood, it is very often used lazily to the point where it becomes a feat to create a story without it.)

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[(Anonymous)]

Every word of this comment is total truth.

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[(Anonymous)]

YES. ALL OF THIS.