I think generally speaking most people are EXTREMELY easy to please? Most people don't create anything and find it magical that someone else does create something -- I'm like that with artwork, for example. I can't draw to save my life so even though I draw the line at obviously BAD art, sometimes artists I follow will make fun of/disparage some art style and I'll go look at it and be lke "but this is incredibly beautiful?" I think when you don't know how to do something it's much easier to have lower standards in it. ^^;
And it also has to do with availability of "good" (vs mediocre/bad) material, generally speaking. Like, some of the smaller fandoms I'm in, many popular fics are atrocious by HP fandom standards but because there just isn't very much fic to choose from at all, and most of it is written by complete beginners, the general quality standards are much lower. At the very least they're lower than what I'm used to in HP so very often I have to grit my teeth and drastically lower my expectations if I just want to see my OTP doing cute things (or just write it myself, which is obviously not ideal).
And with something like Twilight, which is essentially an example of a fan fiction-without-a-canon featuring the pairing Hot Guy/Heterosexual Female Reader (because let's face it, Bella's complete lack of character is what makes her the ideal stand-in for ANY young woman her age). And Hot Canon Dude/Reader fanfic is ridiculously popular because it's just pure fantasy wish-fulfilment.
And it also has to do with availability of "good" (vs mediocre/bad) material, generally speaking. Like, some of the smaller fandoms I'm in, many popular fics are atrocious by HP fandom standards but because there just isn't very much fic to choose from at all, and most of it is written by complete beginners, the general quality standards are much lower. At the very least they're lower than what I'm used to in HP so very often I have to grit my teeth and drastically lower my expectations if I just want to see my OTP doing cute things (or just write it myself, which is obviously not ideal).
And with something like Twilight, which is essentially an example of a fan fiction-without-a-canon featuring the pairing Hot Guy/Heterosexual Female Reader (because let's face it, Bella's complete lack of character is what makes her the ideal stand-in for ANY young woman her age). And Hot Canon Dude/Reader fanfic is ridiculously popular because it's just pure fantasy wish-fulfilment.
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