When someone uses "it's just fiction" as a reason why people shouldn't get all worked up when they find a story -- any narrative, canon or fanwork -- hurtful, I'm going to also assume they don't think much of the ability of stories to make people happy, to make them laugh, or cry, or have thinky thoughts, or leave pink sparkly hearts of joy in the
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There's lots of awesome in those genres (varying according to personal preference) -- but I can't get behind the idea that any one of them is somehow immune to, or more prone to, being a Bad Genre Prone to Fail.
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Yeah, I'm gonna need, like, detailed analysis before I buy those sorts of comments. Like a scientific study of the percentages of shoddy fic in each genre...which would need a (~magic~ probably) unbiased, non-subjective system of measuring suck and awesome in written works. :P So not likely!
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And an addendum to No. 2: Fail does not confine itself to a single fandom.
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And yep, all writing possibilities can lead to big epic fail.
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Thank you! That's something that's been bothering me in the hc_bingo discussions, because there are all these great posts and comments about ablism and how to avoid disability fail in your writing and stuff, and in the middle of it, people keep popping up just to go "eeeeew, hurt/comfort, gross!" as if that has anything to do with it. The point is to minimize fail everywhere, regardless of fandom or genre of challenge format.
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We can work on not failing, or failing less, or calling out fail when we see it, but we can't magically insulate ourselves
Thank you, yes, that. It's also not a reason for fans to stop writing and posting. If no one writes and posts, then how does anyone learn anything on *any* topic, not to mention what a sad, sad place fandom would be without fanfic and posts.
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This. Calling stuff out when it's in your chosen genre or fandom can't happen if you let yourself believe it's only a problem over there. :P
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