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Re: Does fandom as a whole actually WANT variety in its fic?
(Anonymous) 2015-09-19 12:43 am (UTC)(link)I think there tends to be two different types of tropes. General tropes found in every fandom (genderswap, aliens made them do it, sex pollen, etc) and then canon specific tropes (.
In my experience at least, the canon based tropes that emerge in fandom tend to be in part informed by the one or two gem fics that exist. The fandom classics.
There's another angle to this that muddys the water. Good authors often write stories which fit into the universe they're writing about. If you're writing about that Universe, there's not a huge amount of room to experiment. People are telling each other stories about the same Universe and so tend to rely on similar frames of references to build up that feeling in their stories.
Hope that made sense, it's really late here and I'm rapidly losing consciousness!