Hidden fanfic preferences laid bare...
Feb. 21st, 2007 09:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dangermousieSo, I decided to come out of the closet. Fanfic reading closet, that is. And list my secret fanfic opinions/preferences, the ones I normally wouldn't. And I am curious what are yours? Share?
1. I don't like slash. I have nothing against a canon gay relationship being ficced but pairing two boys together just because two boys hotter than one is just as appallingly sexist as men with silly lesbian fantasies where the lesbians always look like college cherleaders. Blah. Taking a canonically straight character and writing them as gay just because he is hotter with a fellow boy than a woman? Yuck.
2. And yet I love Clark/Lex. I am a nasty hypocrite.
3. RPF/RPS, real people fic about anything, even if it's just them communing with trees? Makes me want to take a shower. I won't read it, I won't comment on it, I won't even skim it. That includes everything from the simplest authorial Mary Sue self-insertion to 'actors A and B are aliens fighting Martians in space' fic.
4. I don't mind incest fic, if it's either:
a. as messed-up as it should be
b. canon (I am a canon Nazi).
5. This said, if it's sibcest, OK. If it's parental figures, I don't care if it's messed up and/or canon. I will never ever read it.
6. Mpreg should die. So should gender swap fic. No, it's not OK for your character to suddenly wake up as a girl/boy.
7. Most humor fic is horrible. It's not funny or clever or anything. Just horrible.
8. The same is true for most cross-overs. Except for the few awesome ones.
9. I like Lord of the Rings Mary Sues. When they go for Gimli.
10. If I never read another Draco centric fanfic, it will be too soon.
11. If it's for a pairing/fandom there is little fic in, I will read anything, no matter how badly spelled.
12. Some fandoms there should never be any fic for, because the source material just won't be matched/won't work with fanfic. That includes Dorothy Dunnett, Shakespeare and Battle Royale.
13. Hatefics deserve hate. Any fic that is just about 'I hate character X so all canon characters do now too, all of a sudden?' Sucks.
14. I will never review if the story asks for reviews.
15. It takes a lot to make me flame (I'd rather not leave a comment at all), but I've done it. And didn't feel a bit sorry afterwards.
16. Deathfic. I just can't. No matter how good it is.
17. I used to read and like Highlander fic. h/c Highlander fic. Yes.
18. I don't get Buffy/Angelus fics. Not even S7 Buffy would be OK shacking up with a soulless murderous monster. And yes, DB is hot in leather pants but not enough to overlook that.
Any of your unpopular/hidden fic views?
Note: this doesn't mean I mind anyone else having different preferences etc. These are just my own.
1. I don't like slash. I have nothing against a canon gay relationship being ficced but pairing two boys together just because two boys hotter than one is just as appallingly sexist as men with silly lesbian fantasies where the lesbians always look like college cherleaders. Blah. Taking a canonically straight character and writing them as gay just because he is hotter with a fellow boy than a woman? Yuck.
2. And yet I love Clark/Lex. I am a nasty hypocrite.
3. RPF/RPS, real people fic about anything, even if it's just them communing with trees? Makes me want to take a shower. I won't read it, I won't comment on it, I won't even skim it. That includes everything from the simplest authorial Mary Sue self-insertion to 'actors A and B are aliens fighting Martians in space' fic.
4. I don't mind incest fic, if it's either:
a. as messed-up as it should be
b. canon (I am a canon Nazi).
5. This said, if it's sibcest, OK. If it's parental figures, I don't care if it's messed up and/or canon. I will never ever read it.
6. Mpreg should die. So should gender swap fic. No, it's not OK for your character to suddenly wake up as a girl/boy.
7. Most humor fic is horrible. It's not funny or clever or anything. Just horrible.
8. The same is true for most cross-overs. Except for the few awesome ones.
9. I like Lord of the Rings Mary Sues. When they go for Gimli.
10. If I never read another Draco centric fanfic, it will be too soon.
11. If it's for a pairing/fandom there is little fic in, I will read anything, no matter how badly spelled.
12. Some fandoms there should never be any fic for, because the source material just won't be matched/won't work with fanfic. That includes Dorothy Dunnett, Shakespeare and Battle Royale.
13. Hatefics deserve hate. Any fic that is just about 'I hate character X so all canon characters do now too, all of a sudden?' Sucks.
14. I will never review if the story asks for reviews.
15. It takes a lot to make me flame (I'd rather not leave a comment at all), but I've done it. And didn't feel a bit sorry afterwards.
16. Deathfic. I just can't. No matter how good it is.
17. I used to read and like Highlander fic. h/c Highlander fic. Yes.
18. I don't get Buffy/Angelus fics. Not even S7 Buffy would be OK shacking up with a soulless murderous monster. And yes, DB is hot in leather pants but not enough to overlook that.
Any of your unpopular/hidden fic views?
Note: this doesn't mean I mind anyone else having different preferences etc. These are just my own.
