dekedangle_rpfanon | #24 – Not Sure If Serious or Playing Dumba

#24 – Not Sure If Serious or Playing Dumba

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Looking at fics around that marker, most of them are from two or three years ago. I'm sure a decent chunk of people jumped ship, but it's likely a lot of good writers did, too, since fic as a whole hasn't been Great since then either.

na

I came into K/T fandom about 2.5 years ago, and there was a BNF turnover right about then. It looks like a few of the most popular stories since I started reading have hit the 1k mark, but there was another turnover last fall and (thankfully) nobody has really filled the void. Meanwhile everyone who was writing S/G when I came in has mostly gone, and Stars fic has never quite hit the same popularity. The fandom is pretty clearly in a lull (especially with a few new mega fandoms like SWTFA pulling people), but I think with a really catchy new ship and some new blood it could easily take off again....just a question of if/when that happens.

NA

I also think many of the others I consider good are writing rarepairs right now.

Yeah, just saying the fandom basically lost its top juggernaut, around the time another was stalling and the third didn't quite take off (I know people expected K/T writers and readers would go into those pairings but it didn't really happen). The people who stuck around did seem to mostly shift into rarepairs or rookie class fic (which isn't much more popular than rarepair, individually), and I also think SWTFA really drew off a lot of people. I don't know what other big fandoms are winding down now, but it seems like the last big influx of people came from TSN and GK, so maybe that'll happen with something else.

GK?

Generation Kill. At least 2 of my fave K/T writers came from there.

Oh, okay, got you!

One (possibly two or more) of the Carter/Richards writers too.

If only swtfa fandom's fic choices aligned with my likes... I feel so left over in my fandoms atm. :(

I'm curious what will happen hockey fic fandom wise when more of the players from the 2015 draft class actually get to play in the NHL.

Agreed on both fronts...I liked the movie but SWTFA fic just isn't doing it for me, and I v much doubt most of the rookie pairings will survive them all playing for different teams way spread out. Or they'll survive, but none of them is likely to draw a big following.

I think the swtfa fandom is skewing young, which in my bitter and jaded experience tends to mean that a lot of the fic is on the dross-y end of the spectrum. I'm kind of on the lookout for a new active fandom as well, and nothing has piqued my interest yet.

You're probably right that the fandom in general might be younger, and because of that probably more tumblr influenced if that makes sense? I don't mean this in a bad way, just something about the writing that strikes me that way. MCU fandom seemed similar to me in that way.

Never read fic for the movie, but the impression my tumblr dash has given me is that there's just so much wank about everything?

Yeah, I came out of the movie shipping Finn/Poe big time, but writing for the pairing is basically like stepping into a minefield of angry people calling you racist, so there's been a lot of writers moving into safer pastures. And even for pairings I'm not invested in like Reylo, it annoys me to see so much hate and spitefic written just to troll the shippers. TFA fandom is a mess.

DA

I'm the same basically. I'd really like some good Finn/Poe fic, but finding some is worse than looking for a needle in a haystack. That paired with the fact that I can't bring myself to like any of the other ships enough to bother searching out the fic just made me give that fandom a miss as a whole.

Oh yeah. If you ship Reylo, you are the devil, if you ship Hylux (is that the ship name?), you are the racist devil. If you write Finn with anything but a happy ending or anything but a good person, you are racist. If you write Poe Dameron sleeping around, you are racist. I kind of want to write spite fic about Reylo just to annoy the anti-shippers who think people who ship Reylo are abuse apologists.

I ship Finn/Poe and I still think the fandom is reaching heights which the Harry Potter fandom would be proud of.

na

I came out of the movie going "eh, it was episode 7 again," and haven't ever read Star Wars fanfiction, but I still see enough of the wank to be annoyed and to half-want to start a Finn fic fest. Again, for a fandom I am not in. I just have seen so many posts about how shipping every possible ship is racist, how writing Finn and Poe in any way is racist, and also how shipping the white people isn't racist it's just that no one wants to write PoCs suffering and villain ships are naturally more compelling, to want ALL the Finn fic to exist.

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I love Finn/Poe, but so much of the fic is bland and not at all to my tastes that I just stopped bothering. I actually really like Poe/Kylo and some of the dirtybadwrong stuff there, but there's also this one author who spams the tag and whose stuff I find generally kind of annoying, so I haven't checked that one in awhile, either.

But yeah, the fandom in general is a bit of a mine field with the shipwar nonsense dialed up to 11. Which isn't that unusual for a large fandom, but I agree that it does seem to be a first fandom for a lot of people, so the wank is taken up a notch above what it usually would be. (Not that people who've been in multiple fandoms can't be wanky, because boy can they ever, but a lot of people seem to mellow a bit the more fandoms they've been through. And if you have a good mix of mellow/non-mellow, it can level things out a bit.)

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Yeah, I'm old and bitter and have been in fandom since current college age kids were in kindergarten or younger. Hockey was enjoyable because it seemed to draw people who'd been through several fandoms before, and thus the endless cycle of wank didn't happen in precisely the same way (not that it never happens).

So far. There are a lot of new K/T authors writing shorter fics. I don't think there'll ever be another 1000 kudo fic, because the number of people willing to read K/T fics has dropped significantly, but I wouldn't be surprised to see fics that WOULD have gotten 1000 kudos before being written in coming months/years.

The K/T fic that has the most kudos since the allegations is The Sweetest Sounds I'll Ever Hear by Linksy which has 911. So I don't think it's completely out of the realm of possibility that it will hit 1000 in time since it was only posted in Feb/March this year.

That seems surprising...

Linksy probably had a good handle on people who weren't sure where they fell on the Kane issue, since she spent so much time hand-wringing over just finishing her "last" K/T.

For the timer fic? Sure. But Sweetest Sounds was Feb-March. The kudos were not people on the fence.

da

Why? She was really popular before and I think people still liked her because she discussed (my cynical side wants to say: paid lip service) the problems with K/T on tumblr, so maybe they felt like they could read her stuff without feeling too bad. (Disclaimer that I haven't read that fic.)