Guess what? I've had another epiphany. This one came a couple of days ago:
I accept fanfiction as a concept.
As a concept, mind you. There is still no excuse - nor will there ever be - for the clumsy, feculent, inappropriate, character-disrespecting, childish fic-maunderings of the average fangirl (of any sex). But then, there's sod-all excuse
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Some series fare worse than others - by definition, fanfiction is written by fans, so the quality of fans influences the quality of fanfiction. Hence I daresay Deadwood and Firefly fanfic is, on average, a bit better than Harry Potter or Naruto. And, of course, you need to be prepared to run as far and as fast as you can when the sentence begins "Though [male character] had always thought of himself as straight, the strange feelings coursing through him ..."
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Seriously. Apart from Real Life(TM), work, all my usual researches-for-fun, and additional work in the form of genrelism and paid editing, I'm in the middle of writing an unslashable Book...
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(I'm not even going to bring Rule 34 into this, because I've already thought up some ghastly counter-examples to my above statement, and that rule pretty much states that the unimaginable has already been imagined.)
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I have no idea what Rule 34 is. But then, that's probably not surprising. You and I inhabit different parts of the sphere of reality :-)
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