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: 2020-12-06 02:54 am (UTC)There are definitely many things I've gotten into because I read the writer's other work and then consumed everything they produced. Or read because the writer is a friend.
I guess one thing might be sort of the opposite of yours: fic with slash pairings where the couple isn't really in the story and it's genfic about their kids. Best example I have is The Rhodes-Stark Parent Trap by AmarieMelody, which is a WIP: https://archiveofourown.org/works/11513736/chapters/25838667
It's a kind of story I might seek out in other fiction, but not fanfic.
There's also a general rule where if I'm not into a ship, if in the fic one or more of the characters are trans I'll give it a shot. Also sometimes if it's cis white people in canon they're genderbent, racebent, or disabled in the fic (and not canon. Is there a word for that?).