fanfic tastes that defy logic
Dec. 3rd, 2020 01:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
deird1So... fanfic readers: does anyone else have a genre of fanfic that is totally not their type, that it makes absolutely no sense they'd be into, that they nevertheless adore?
Here's mine: John/Rodney SGA fic.
Which, as mentioned, makes no sense whatsoever.
1) It's slash. I don't like slash (I'm a gen-fic person).
2) It's a show that (until recently) I knew absolutely nothing about. In fact, when I started reading it, I knew absolutely nothing about the Stargate franchise.
And yet...
The thing about John/Rodney fic is that it's fic that lives and dies entirely on snarky conversations between its main characters. And even when I didn't know anything about these characters (other than that they starred in snarky slash fics), the prospect of reading them arguing some more was so appealing that I clicked on every fic I could find. Still do.
I have read John-is-secretly-into-Rodney fic, and Rodney-is-secretly-into-John fic. I have read coffee-shop AUs, college lecturer AUs, and high school AUs. I have read action adventure extravaganzas, and intimate evenings at home. (And I'm not into any of those things, in any fanfics that aren't this lot! Really!) And I love them all.
It is a genre of fanfic that I adore, despite it contradicting my every taste in fanfic.
Does anyone else have one of those?
Here's mine: John/Rodney SGA fic.
Which, as mentioned, makes no sense whatsoever.
1) It's slash. I don't like slash (I'm a gen-fic person).
2) It's a show that (until recently) I knew absolutely nothing about. In fact, when I started reading it, I knew absolutely nothing about the Stargate franchise.
And yet...
The thing about John/Rodney fic is that it's fic that lives and dies entirely on snarky conversations between its main characters. And even when I didn't know anything about these characters (other than that they starred in snarky slash fics), the prospect of reading them arguing some more was so appealing that I clicked on every fic I could find. Still do.
I have read John-is-secretly-into-Rodney fic, and Rodney-is-secretly-into-John fic. I have read coffee-shop AUs, college lecturer AUs, and high school AUs. I have read action adventure extravaganzas, and intimate evenings at home. (And I'm not into any of those things, in any fanfics that aren't this lot! Really!) And I love them all.
It is a genre of fanfic that I adore, despite it contradicting my every taste in fanfic.
Does anyone else have one of those?
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Date: 2020-12-04 12:31 am (UTC)* I actively dislike Batman and many of the core premises of Bat-centric DC canon.
* I think the writers did a shoddy job with a lot of canon events (as far as I know them.)
* insert rant here about Bat-canon, no, seriously.
* I find dysfunctional families pretty upsetting, in general.
And yet there's so much Batfamily fic I love - largely thanks to
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Date: 2020-12-04 12:35 am (UTC):D