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F!S Anon Meme (the ??th)

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3. No dropping personal info or IRL contact info, etc.

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(Today's post is below.)

Comments

Re: Those fics/authors/art pieces/artists that get a lot of praise in your fandoms, but you hate the

[(Anonymous)]

That Sherlock fic, Alone On the Water.

It's not incredibly shit, just not that good. Yet for about a year I couldn't spit on tumblr for people saying that if I hadn't cried at the end, I had no heart. And that it was a fandom classic.

So boring. And no classic.

I think the same writer wrote some other good fics, but not that one.

It fill me with rage that it became this juggernaut. I suspect a lot of its fans were very young Johnlockers who wanted to prove they weren't all about the shipping. The fic was ostensibly gen, but that was a joke. It was obviously highly shippy. So not only were the incessant fans of it hypocritical, they were deluded.

Re: Those fics/authors/art pieces/artists that get a lot of praise in your fandoms, but you hate the

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, that was the gayest gen fic I ever read.

Re: Those fics/authors/art pieces/artists that get a lot of praise in your fandoms, but you hate the

[(Anonymous)]

A millenial smarm fic?

Re: Those fics/authors/art pieces/artists that get a lot of praise in your fandoms, but you hate the

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, I think it's because when I do read gen fic, it's either a) super long and plotty and/or b) has a het bias.

Re: Those fics/authors/art pieces/artists that get a lot of praise in your fandoms, but you hate the

[(Anonymous)]

OP

I had to google smarm. But yes. Profoundly so. Even more in the reactions there were to the fic than the thing itself. About how beautiful and touching and adorable it was.

I don't understand the attraction in wanting to see male characters so emotional and OOC while maintaining they're still in a non-romantic relationship. It's non-threatening, I guess?

Re: Those fics/authors/art pieces/artists that get a lot of praise in your fandoms, but you hate the

[(Anonymous)]

From what I hear, Starsky & Hutch works like that. My sister is a shipper but she only reads gen because she says in that fandom, it's practically the same damn thing.

Re: Those fics/authors/art pieces/artists that get a lot of praise in your fandoms, but you hate the

[fingalsanteater]

Yep. Same with Merlin BBC.

Re: Those fics/authors/art pieces/artists that get a lot of praise in your fandoms, but you hate the

[(Anonymous)]

I feel that way about so many "fandom classics" in my fandom. People adore them and act like you can't really ship our ship without reading them, but when I read most of them, they seem OOC and fairly generic "any two white guys" sounding.