So what's a real TS fic?

[mab_browne]

When I posted Sideline as a WIP, I remarked a few times that the plot had crack tendencies, and Bev was kind enough to comment that she didn’t see crack at all. And this led to me having thoughts about my perception of the ‘desirable’ TS plot and why I felt that way.

Comments

[janedavitt]

Interesting post! I'm too new to have a grasp of the history of this fandom yet (there's a lot of it :-)) but I've been in one fandom(s) (Buffy and Angel) which went from being open canon to closed and that has a definite, sometimes clear, sometimes subtle, knock-on effect on the fic. I'm guessing a lot of those classics (which I've discovered and loved) were written while the show was still airing, still fluid?

Now, of course, people writing know everything that happened. They can't get jossed, they've got a wealth of canon to draw on.

And they've got an intimidating, overwhelming, encompassing amount of fic to put their own offerings up against if they're new.

I'm reading a lot of fic and trying to avoid any plots I've seen used in them, sometimes discarding a half-planned fic of my own when I come across one that's already done it and done it better, but every time I write I'm uneasily aware that I might be just adding to a heap of similar fics. Which is okay; it always happens, but even so...

And feedback... oh, boy, is it not predictable! Heh.

But when it comes down to it, you have to write what works for you and if it's the out there stuff, so be it. I loved your fic and it didn't seem at all implausible given what the canon has included. I know that one of the drawbacks of a community can be that it can steam roller over lone voices - but also, if that voice is strong enough, it can halt the roller and redirect it. Fandom appreciates good stuff, just as it can worship dreck; it's a contradictory entity at times.

Okay, I'm babbling; sorry :;g::

[mab_browne]

Babbling is no problem. *g* And yes indeed, many of the 'classics' were written when everything was very fluid indeed. And I am so with you on the contradictory nature of fandom, exasperating and glorious creature that it is.

I really like the fact that I can't get jossed with TS, and from a slash pov, the series finale is about as good as it gets - our boys go off into the sunset together sans any inconvenient women.

I don't mean this post to sound 'poor oppressed me' because many of the perceptions we bring to fandoms can become rods to beat our own backs. But is interesting to look back from a three years perspective and think about what I came in with and what I'm operating on now, which is, I think, becoming quite different. ::blesses LJ::