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ashkevran

Starsky & Hutch Fanfiction - Poll

Jan 14, 2011 14:06

To any who stop by, welcome to my latest and truly unscientific poll about Starsky & Hutch fanfiction for readers, writers/artists, and anyone in between. Fanfiction seems to be a large part of our fandom (any fandom?) ... almost as much as the canon episodes and the visuals and anything else related to our two favorite Bay City Detectives.

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nicoltyler January 14 2011, 23:37:44 UTC

I will probably be ranted at for this but I am being honest ( ... )

kuonji14 January 15 2011, 06:28:53 UTC

I dislike any extraneous scene. If you can skip reading a scene and not lose any impact from the fic (or even improve the impact of the fic), then that scene should have been edited out by the writer! If it's a super-cute scene about Hutch and a kitten, even, delete it! Post it separately, but if it doesn't belong, then it doesn't belong. :)

Of course, as a writer, I can understand how it happens. Sometimes you get attached to a scene and just yearn to keep it somewhere. And writers write what they personally think is right for the story (e.g. feeling that a good slash story has to have hawt sex somewhere), which will sometimes not agree with the readers'.

(Of course, I am now mentally rifling through my own slash stories to see if any offend... :D)

May I ask, what is your opinion of PWPs?

nickygabriel January 15 2011, 15:28:03 UTC

You know, there are some authors that write slash and I do read for exactly the reason you gave :)

ashkevran January 15 2011, 17:25:51 UTC

Thank you nicol. This poll is about/for folks to express anything they want when it comes to stories and story writing. I have my own bugaboos. One of the biggest ones for me, for example, is if one of them deliberately (or due to some angsty influence) hurts or rapes or something the other. I can never never see that happening, and I avoid it. But that's must me. I hope no one will rant at you for saying what you enjoy or don't enjoy.

Thanks again for participating!

-Angel

Thread 7

nyteflyer January 15 2011, 04:37:21 UTC

I'm all about slash, and I love emotionally intense, relationship-focused, dramatic fic. But I will say that the one thing that absolutely turns me off about any m/m pairing is when the author feminizes one of the characters. The second the guys stop acting/reacting like guys and start behaving like they're in the middle of an estrogen rush, I'm outta there....

ashkevran January 15 2011, 17:33:23 UTC

This explanation is much appreciated. I went to a "how to construct a sex scene" at SHareCon and this came up ... how most of us writers are women and they are guys - how difficult it can be for us from that perspective. There are a number of writers who can do this beautifully...

Thank you!

kuonji14 January 15 2011, 06:19:02 UTC

What is the difference between "The guys are out of character" and "The guys do things they really would not do" ? I checked both, b/c OOC-ness is the number one turn-off for me, almost to exclusion of all else ( ... )

kuonji14 January 15 2011, 06:35:14 UTC

Btw, I forgot to say, thanks for the poll. It's very interesting!

Also, this may interest you:
http://www.freewebs.com/alisonresearch/DISSERTATION2.pdf

It's a dissertation paper written in 2006 about fanfiction on the internet, researched and written by a woman who is herself a fanfic writer.

ashkevran January 15 2011, 17:32:05 UTC

Thank you! I look forward to checking this out! Anything else you may know about, with fanfiction and the literature, I would love to see...have a great day! :-)

ashkevran January 15 2011, 17:31:10 UTC

What an amazing and informative response here. Thank you so much for sharing some of your insights and motivations. I not only enjoyed reading, I learned more about you, and that is very helpful and enjoyable for me.

Re: the first question, I was trying to get a layer down, unartfully, in the poll...sort of a validation question of the first question. Out of character could mean the personalities were missed right from the start, from the moment "the short, dark one" or the "clumsy and giggling blond" walk in the door. :-( The second question was around behaviors - sort of more action oriented. I hope that makes sense.

Thank you so much!

-Angel

librathree January 15 2011, 18:27:23 UTC

My "others" are - what I like best is a fic that combines a good action plot with good, deep relationship analysis. I didn't see that as a choice on your list. :-)

As for what puts me off - you didn't include bad grammar, spelling, etc. That throws me out more often than anything else, usually in the first paragraph. If the writing skills are sound, then some of those other things might throw me out. :-) I'm a very nitpicky reader.

As for feedback, I put no, it's not important to me, but I should qualify that with "I like it - all kinds, absolutely including criticism - but I don't need it in any sense."

kuonji14 January 16 2011, 05:09:04 UTC

you didn't include bad grammar, spelling, etc.

I think that might be included under "Poorly written (technical or technique or idea)". At least, that is why I checked that one. ;)

librathree January 16 2011, 18:40:51 UTC

I think I might've gotten stuck on "technique" and though it was a style thing ... but yes, that is what I mean. :-)

soxendom January 15 2011, 21:01:31 UTC

The problem I have with a poll like this is that as a reader the sort of stories that I read depends on the mood I'm in, so more than 1 answer applied. I like slash but would prefer it to be implied rather than have a sex scene just because the writer felt like writing it and bunging it where it doesn't belong.
I find that bad grammar and spelling distract me from the story and if it gets too bad I'll just stop reading. It's probable that I've missed some good stories that way - I'm more likely to be thinking "Don't they know what a spell checker is?"