For me, that overwhelming infrastructure over there in the popular pairings makes it easier for me to write rarepairs -- I can focus on the characters as I see them, I can focus on development and depth and all that without being barraged by all this fic that insists that John is written THIS WAY or Rodney is written THIS WAY, and they have to be written like that or else. It feels like that, to me.
I prefer rarepairings precisely because they don't have that supporting infrastructure of so many people who like it and have made the pairing cohese into boring repetition of the same old characterisation the same old quirks the same old habits the same old settings the same old reactions the same old ... you get my point. I can write the characters as I see them, not as fandom sees them.
So for me, I don't exactly want more fandom support for my pairing -- not until after I'm done with it, at least, because for me that just ruins it. It makes it difficult to write the characters instead of regurgitating the fandom hivemind. So, no, I'm not bothered by the lack of (perceived) support for rarepairings.
I am bothered by those who won't read them simply because they're not their One True Pairing or within their very narrow range of preferred pairings, but by those who refuse to write them? No, not at all.
For me, that overwhelming infrastructure over there in the popular pairings makes it easier for me to write rarepairs -- I can focus on the characters as I see them, I can focus on development and depth and all that without being barraged by all this fic that insists that John is written THIS WAY or Rodney is written THIS WAY, and they have to be written like that or else. It feels like that, to me.
I prefer rarepairings precisely because they don't have that supporting infrastructure of so many people who like it and have made the pairing cohese into boring repetition of the same old characterisation the same old quirks the same old habits the same old settings the same old reactions the same old ... you get my point. I can write the characters as I see them, not as fandom sees them.
So for me, I don't exactly want more fandom support for my pairing -- not until after I'm done with it, at least, because for me that just ruins it. It makes it difficult to write the characters instead of regurgitating the fandom hivemind. So, no, I'm not bothered by the lack of (perceived) support for rarepairings.
I am bothered by those who won't read them simply because they're not their One True Pairing or within their very narrow range of preferred pairings, but by those who refuse to write them? No, not at all.
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