dekedangle_rpfanon | #23 — Brown Goes Down

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Hee. I lost it when they claimed there was less misogyny in fic. I am suspicious of the idea this person was active in fanfic in the 90s and has an actual basis for comparison of how fandom has changed.

...eight years ago was in the late 00s. Where fandom was just picking up on tumblr. They have no basis for comparison other than being exposed to older archives.

8 years ago? They are an Na, not the 12-year old anon.

NA Yup. And I remember there being a lot more poly fic back in the day, tbh, at least in the fandoms I read.

And a lot more gen fic and case fic, etc. etc. The issue in wanting more variety in fic is that you have to not have very narrow definitions of acceptability. The mentality that defines what is OK in fictional depiction is the same mentality that limits variety in fic, and the fact that they profess to want more varieties of fic and not want certain things to exist shows that they actually don't.

If you want more poly and ace and etc. fic, you gotta be OK with people tackling those topics in a way you don't approve of, since not every attempt will be successful. The 'write more kinds of stuff but only exactly within these narrow confines of acceptability' is exactly the kind of thinking that leads to less variety of fic.

Absolutely. It isn't variety if everything has to fit within someone's (whose?) specific parameters or not exist.

(Poly just came to my mind first there because lately I've been wondering if it's worth trying to track down some of the LoTR rpf stories I enjoyed several computers ago, without remembering either author names or titles.)

It isn't variety if everything has to fit within someone's (whose?) specific parameters or not exist.

Yes, the "whose paramaters?" question is a really important one, because these conversations tend to assume that we all know which things are bad in fiction and which are good, but actually there is a very wide range of opinions on that subject! So it generally boils down to whatever the commenter in question personally finds questionable.

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