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fandomsecrets2009-12-07 05:10 pm
case) wrote in fandomsecrets2009-12-07 05:10 pm
[ SECRET POST #1067 ]
⌈ Secret Post #1067 ⌋
Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.
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Notes:
Secrets Left to Post: 13 pages, 325 secrets from Secret Submission Post #153.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 2 3 - not!secrets ], [ 1 2 - not!fandom ], [ 1 2 3 4 - too big ], [ 1 - repeat ], [ 1 2 3 - ships it ], [ 1 - would hit it ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.
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I've never understood the conflation of gen fic with quality. The OP didn't state it, but this attitude has come up in the discussion threads, and rarely ends up contested. Just because a story has some kind of plot and avoids pairings doesn't mean that it's automagically superior. I can understand it when people prefer genfic, but dude. Genfic fans are no different than slash fans in the sense that both would rather read well-written stories than crappy ones.
I often suspect that certain vocal anti-slash gen supporters have the attitude that people who like slash are somehow inferior as readers. Especially if the only kind of fanfic someone reads is slash, this often gets treated as a sign that the readers are uneducated rubes with no taste. And although it's probably true that many slash readers are rather limited in their preferences, so are many gen fans, and ya know what, who cares if someone is a "bad reader" anyway? Reading fiction is a pastime, not a vocation (even people who teach literature for a living have to do more than read).
I personally only read slash online. I prefer slash with lots of plot, but I don't read fanfic unless it includes pairings I like. The reason? If I'm going to read something putatively "gen," I'm going to read a freakin' book. Something, you know, published. I'm sure there is great gen fic out there which can qualify as literature, but I am not at all interested in wading through reams of crap to get to it-- whereas I will totally read tons of crap eagerly if I'm looking at it from a pairing perspective. My love of certain pairings makes me very forgiving as a reader, and I end up getting enjoyment out of some of the randomest, stupidest stuff... but only if I am convinced by the characterization. Slash gives me an excuse to enjoy badness; gen doesn't.
I wish this debate would end, because it is premised on such ridiculous snobbery on both sides. Gen is a preference, not a signifier of quality. People should not feel ashamed for preferring gen, but they shouldn't be smug about it either. (Ditto for slash fans, but I'm not responding to a snobby slasher secret here).