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likeadeuce. I went for a slight twist on this, as I have been navel-gazing more and more recently.
10 Unpopular Fannish Fandom Opinions
1. Having two male characters decide that they want a baby is enough justification for an MPREG fic. There's the issue of - well, it's not physically possible. Why is people wanting something seen
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I would highly recommend galadhir's fic, which is Pirates of the Caribbean and deals principally with Norrington/Gillette. She is very realistic about the serious legal, social and psychological difficulties that such a relationship would entail at that period (up to and including execution).
And as a writer of Silmarillion gen, I thank kangeiko for opinion 5.
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Word on the general quality and enjoyableness of galadhir's stories.
I'm mostly a reader of mature, well-written gen, for the very reasons already mentioned under point 5; and quite often I feel that I need to take a look at a writer's gen fiction first, before deciding whether or not to follow them into slash country.
Clearly an act of general skepticism on my behalf, an "are you good enough to make me buy and enjoy the fictional world evolving around your pairing?"
The first piece I ever read from galadhir, Mutiny on the Dauntless was a very well-written gen novella with a breathtaking plot and very endearing, psychologically believable and multi-faceted characterisations. So I also tried a few galadhir's slashier stories. It's a decision I have not regretted, because the stuff is just as good and convincing as her gen ;-)
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*perks up* Silmarillion gen? Where where where? I'd love to read some good Sil-fic, but I'm not a slasher and the ubiquity of the slash has mostly scared me away from wading into it.
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I think one reason a lot of authors might skip or leave out the societal repurcussions/personal angst thing is that, if the characters are being slashed in a fic, and it's not totally about the angst of breaking that taboo, it's a foregone conclusion that they'll get over it, so why rehash what's been repeated ad infinitum in fic already. There're only so many ways to write "well, I though I was straight but I'm not" or "I'm not supposed to be gay/bi/whatever because the military/society/my family says it's wrong/evil/not allowed.
Not saying that the turmoil about all that should be skipped, and of course many authors handle it smoothly in a way that isn't clunky or repetitive, instead of writing it like it's a quick hurdle to be jumped or sidestepped. I just think that for some its a case of familiarity with that plot point breeding contempt, or at least disinterest ( ... )
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That's an interesting point, and I can appreciate it, but there's a fine line between weighing a fic in favour of post-realisation elements and skipping over them entirely. As a reader, I feel cheated somehow - it's a legitimate hurdle, and if they devote so much time to strawberry- or chocolate-flavoured lube, I'd expect at least a cursory nod in the direction of legalities and 'the real world'. That said, I'm a big stickler for real world details while others might not care about them at all.
There're only so many ways to write "well, I though I was straight but I'm not" or "I'm not supposed to be gay/bi/whatever because the military/society/my family says it's wrong/evil/not allowed.Yes, indeed ( ... )
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Yes, exactly. That's my issue with a lot of the historical fic I've come across, especially the ones that seem to culminate in an Army-wide orgy... (they never covered that in my history classes...)
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