Agreed, and with cwm specifically, it was that she could be relied upon to write long fic, write and publish frequently, write competent prose, and write fic that, while trope-y and predictable, tended to have a lot of different kinds of conflict and tension and just, notes that aren't often hit in S/G fic. Even if her fic wasn't good in some ways, I don't think fandom sheeple's collective memories have been fooled by time and circumstance into thinking it was something it's not. People who liked cwm know what they like, and it's easy to want it even more now that it's not there and no one has stepped into cwm's niche, and you might be reminded of that every time you refresh AO3 and there's nothing to read.
![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
Re: cwm's fic
From: (Anonymous)Agreed, and with cwm specifically, it was that she could be relied upon to write long fic, write and publish frequently, write competent prose, and write fic that, while trope-y and predictable, tended to have a lot of different kinds of conflict and tension and just, notes that aren't often hit in S/G fic. Even if her fic wasn't good in some ways, I don't think fandom sheeple's collective memories have been fooled by time and circumstance into thinking it was something it's not. People who liked cwm know what they like, and it's easy to want it even more now that it's not there and no one has stepped into cwm's niche, and you might be reminded of that every time you refresh AO3 and there's nothing to read.