I just realised I should probably go read some fic about Marrow. *wide grin*
The only ones I've read are by Janete, but hot *damn*...
Ahem.
And I'm not even a big femslash fan.
So, is this about comicverse writers' attitudes to movieverse, or non L/R-ers' attitudes to LR/-ers? Because I do believe there is quite a considerable difference. I'm more than willing to admit that I have prejudice against L/R and that it will take a lot of effort from the writer's side to make me like it. That certainly doesn't make me comicsverse.
There's a perception that quite often, anything movieverse is dismissed because it's automatically *assumed* (and you know what assuming does, eh?) to be L/R. About which then there is a second assumption that L/R is crap. Therefore, the faulty logic of movieverse=L/R=crap comes into play, and *that's* what I'm talking about.
You don't like a pairing, that's not my problem. I don't like certain pairings and won't read them - I wouldn't tar all the fic written about them with the same brush, nor would I exclude a whole genre from my reading list simply because I thought that because fic about X pairing was crap, so the whole genre must be crap.
And I speak from experience on this. My first exposure to internet media fanfiction was back in 1998 and it was an absolutely atrocious (in a scary way) Buffy/Angel reunion after Becoming fic.
I didn't read fanfic again for almost a year based on the sheer badness and horror of that one story. I decided all fanfic must be crap.
I've since learned differently.
The L/R vs. anti-L/R within movieverse is a whole different kettle of fish.
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Date: 2002-10-28 02:08 pm (UTC)The only ones I've read are by Janete, but hot *damn*...
Ahem.
And I'm not even a big femslash fan.
So, is this about comicverse writers' attitudes to movieverse, or non L/R-ers' attitudes to LR/-ers? Because I do believe there is quite a considerable difference. I'm more than willing to admit that I have prejudice against L/R and that it will take a lot of effort from the writer's side to make me like it. That certainly doesn't make me comicsverse.
There's a perception that quite often, anything movieverse is dismissed because it's automatically *assumed* (and you know what assuming does, eh?) to be L/R. About which then there is a second assumption that L/R is crap. Therefore, the faulty logic of movieverse=L/R=crap comes into play, and *that's* what I'm talking about.
You don't like a pairing, that's not my problem. I don't like certain pairings and won't read them - I wouldn't tar all the fic written about them with the same brush, nor would I exclude a whole genre from my reading list simply because I thought that because fic about X pairing was crap, so the whole genre must be crap.
And I speak from experience on this. My first exposure to internet media fanfiction was back in 1998 and it was an absolutely atrocious (in a scary way) Buffy/Angel reunion after Becoming fic.
I didn't read fanfic again for almost a year based on the sheer badness and horror of that one story. I decided all fanfic must be crap.
I've since learned differently.
The L/R vs. anti-L/R within movieverse is a whole different kettle of fish.