Read this entry in isagel's journal now. Read the discussion that follows and tell me if they aren't talking about our fandom with all it's love for happy!fluffy! stories.
Make that all pairings/relationship fic and I'll bite.
Exactly. I fail to understand why it is important to oversimplify these relationships by putting them in the classic formula - when it is clearly quite different in canon. I would have never been attracted to LFN had it not been for the complexity of the show. And it makes me wonder if these fans were attracted by some other aspect of the show - some aspect I (and most other fans I've interacted with in the FFMB) clearly don't see.
I guess it all again comes back to the author's personal beliefs - maybe the person finds herself most comfortable when dealing with the 'classical' conditions of romance, and therefore keeps on incorporating those in her fan fiction. Sometimes it's unconscious, more often it's not. That it doesn't go with the canon of the show is not important, because it's just fan fiction.
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Date: 2004-02-26 05:00 pm (UTC)Exactly. I fail to understand why it is important to oversimplify these relationships by putting them in the classic formula - when it is clearly quite different in canon. I would have never been attracted to LFN had it not been for the complexity of the show. And it makes me wonder if these fans were attracted by some other aspect of the show - some aspect I (and most other fans I've interacted with in the FFMB) clearly don't see.
I guess it all again comes back to the author's personal beliefs - maybe the person finds herself most comfortable when dealing with the 'classical' conditions of romance, and therefore keeps on incorporating those in her fan fiction. Sometimes it's unconscious, more often it's not. That it doesn't go with the canon of the show is not important, because it's just fan fiction.
Swatkat