When Bad Fanfic Happens to Good Characters, Part IIB

[mark_asphodel]

I changed my mind.  This is another installment of Part Two, When Pairings Eat a Fandom.  It does not focus on Fire Emblem.

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[mark_asphodel]

a handful of top-shelf genners (e.g. John Biles, Doug Helm, Tim Nolan, etc.) that came to be supplanted by a whole generation of pairing 'ficcers (e.g. the entire Usa-Mamo army).

Yeah. Though I was often in weirder corners of fandom-- Dark Kingdom fiction, Dead Moon Circus Fiction, Outer Senshi fiction. I recall a good many rabid Seiya/Usa fans and not so much the Usa/Mamo backlash.

If one felt like taking a risk, one might contemplate how this shift occurred at the same time fandom flipped from being overwhelmingly male to overwhelmingly female, but that is for another time.

I am not afraid of such speculation. It might not belong in this thread today, but I don't think gender trends in fan communities should be ignored simply because some might take offense.

[sarajayechan]

Dark Kingdom fiction

Sup fellow DK-er. =)