[ SECRET POST #4655 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4655 ⌋

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

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08. [SPOILERS for Chicago Med]

[Conner/Ava]







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Comments

[type_wild]

I've read a bit of m/m romance the last couple of years, and a lot of the time, it's really obvious that the writers started out as slash shippers. I can't put my finger on what exactly it is, however, but its like three pages in, "oh yeah, you started out writing fic".

If it's any comfort, I feel your bitterness. There's a ton of trashy literature being published already, and making "original fanfic" a legit genre is the next logical step, under capitalism. But from a quality standpoint... yikes. 99% of all fic is tropey drivel regurgitating the same stories and the same conflicts as everyone else, and that's why we love it. But as far as the benefits of reading fiction go, fanfic has the nutritional value of a marshmallow.

[(Anonymous)]

Same.

[(Anonymous)]

I've had that experience too and with a book I read not that long ago! It had these really long sex scenes in it that totally read like slash fic sex scenes. I'm sure they weren't intended to make me laugh (especially because one sex scene came in the aftermath of a heated argument), but they did because I immediately recognized the language. I don't know if the person used to write slash fic or not though.

[type_wild]

I've looked up a couple. It was took two minutes in google to find that they both had a background from LJ. And I don't want to cast myself as the expert here (because I'm really not), but there is an extremely obvious difference between the modern m/m romances I've read, and Ellen Kushner's eighties and nineties writing.

[(Anonymous)]

If you sincerely think Kushner never wrote fanfic I have some bad news for you...

[type_wild]

Yeah, that doesn't surprise me. But she wrote Swordspoint in the eighties, meaning that she either started out in profic, or came from a fanfic community so small that it's extremely unlikely that her main literary influence was Kirk/Spock medieval AU.

[nightscale]

I've got a few free e-books on my kindle that read exactly like your average m/m fanfic, and honestly I do find them amusing as shit because I play an internal game of slash-fic bingo in my head while reading them. But holy crap they're not good and I'd never pay for them.