gen > everyone

[studyofrunning]

(Except for you, flist. I heart you guys.)

I had this idea for a comm. It would be called something like justliketheshow or itslikecanon. (icantbelieveitsnotcanon is over the character limit. Alas.)

It would be for posting, reccing, and asking help finding any fan-made thing (mostly fic, but Horrible Turn would totally count) that is similar in tone to the canon it's based on. For most fandoms,

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[cosmic_celery]

justliketheshow is a clearer name for it, I think.

As for the general idea, I like it, but I'm not sure that you'd have a lot of people behind it. You're facing a couple issues. Firstly, People are less likely to join in a comm the more general it is (multiple fandoms) ...which could result in a larger amount of fic from one or two fandoms. Secondly, what someone else thinks is sticking to the canon mood may be wildly divergent from what you or anyone else does.

(Hope you find this helpful instead of critical. )

[studyofrunning]

These are good points

[beagleinspace]

I quite like the name ICantBelieveItsNotButterCanon :D Shame about LJ restrictions :(

While I welcome more gen fic, I'm also a little wary that one person's interpretation of canon =/= another person's.

Also, tbh, depending on the fandom, I'm not always the biggest fan of it's canon.

I sort of see the comm working best in a rec format where there's an explanation of why this fic/fanwork is just like canon. Then the challenge is to find active reccers in a variety of fandoms.

[studyofrunning]

...Why would you be in a fandom if you're not a fan?

[beagleinspace]

Oh no, I didn't mean not a fan of the canon completely, I meant specific bits of it's canon (usually having to do with canon couples or certain character developments).

[studyofrunning]

Huh, what otherwise awesome show might there be which regularly gives its best characters terrible arcs?

:(

I wasn't really thinking perfect exact canon-replication which adheres to every plot detail on screen and focuses on every single thing the show has ever focused on. Sometimes in recs you see people describe something with "reads like an episode", and as debatable as it kind of sounds in abstract, nobody really has trouble understanding what that means when it happens. I would like a comm for only those fics. And I think we can broadly agree that most, say, scifi shows, while they may contain romance, could not be put in the romance genre. (There are other examples that don't just come down to "I think gen is best", but I never run into them because I have such good taste in fandoms.)

But now I think it would be really problematic to do anyway.