Fanfiction = Good

[meddow]

I'm going through a major Rolling Stones phase at the moment. I think it's because I've been watching my S1 House DVDs again. So the the Chase icon has been dragged out. Jesse Spencer is just wonderful

Comments

[jadeddiva]

You're quite welcome! The few entries you submitted stood out at the ficathon and honestly, R/T needs better writers.

I like rec'ing people for the same reasons Gun does - it's a reward in and of itself :)

[gunderpants]

This is going to sound like a horrible thing to say, but there are really relatively few R/T authors who I'd voluntarily choose to read these days. I have a list of about eight, and sincerely I find the rest just painful to read. meddow's stuff is so refreshing to read because she doesn't have to resort to crap purple prose, unnecessary fluff or smut or any crassness to entertain. It's the same reason I go out of my way to plug Bri's fics: it's so fucking refreshing to read fics about plots and characters for a fucking change.

[jadeddiva]

No, it's true - but I think that even on my short list, it's a crap shoot. I'll love one piece by an author, and then not be wowed by another and feel bad because I like other fics they've done. No one is consistant which is to be expected, but sometimes I wish that were different.

[gunderpants]

I really haven't even written much about the pairing these days because I think of something I'd like to write and see the idea be butchered by someone else's handling of it. Thank god for gen and OT3 these days or I probably wouldn't be writing fic at all. Fuck, even the association of being an R/T author stops me finishing 'Loneliness'.

That all sounds incredibly bitchy, but there's such a connotation of R/T as being this fluffy, saccharine pairing full of idiotic fangirls, and when you read a lot of the stuff that goes up online it just makes you cling to the sane, ascerbically funny fanauthors even more.

[jadeddiva]

That all sounds incredibly bitchy, but there's such a connotation of R/T as being this fluffy, saccharine pairing full of idiotic fangirls, and when you read a lot of the stuff that goes up online it just makes you cling to the sane, ascerbically funny fanauthors even more.

That's how Sylvia and I feel, pretty much. Join the club, we meet at the bar.

[gunderpants]

Brilliant. Hey, who knows? I may submit some stuff to this round of the rt_challenge.

I actually think I started writing R/T just because it was all such a squeaky-clean pairing. I wanted to write it with real grottiness and profanity. Tres fun.