I started out your typical rabid H/D shipper, cliche's and all. I read all the big fics, most of the small ones, and loved quite a few.
And then I read more. And more. And they allbecameexactlythesame. Seriously, the same three or four cliches repeated over and over again until I could tell you after a thousand words or so how a 20 chapter fic was going to end.
Then I started writing fanfic, and while I've dabbled in H/D (mainly in humor, actually, and not much recently) I found that I really don't like writing it. I'm not sure why, but as much as I came into the fandom on the H/D wave, I don't write it. Go figure.
And now, I find myself skipping H/D fics unless there from author's I know and already like for their merits, and not for the pairing.
So thank you for having the balls to point this out to a fandom that tends to avoid saying that it's fics can be crap.
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Date: 2004-08-19 05:21 pm (UTC)I started out your typical rabid H/D shipper, cliche's and all. I read all the big fics, most of the small ones, and loved quite a few.
And then I read more. And more. And they all became exactly the same. Seriously, the same three or four cliches repeated over and over again until I could tell you after a thousand words or so how a 20 chapter fic was going to end.
Then I started writing fanfic, and while I've dabbled in H/D (mainly in humor, actually, and not much recently) I found that I really don't like writing it. I'm not sure why, but as much as I came into the fandom on the H/D wave, I don't write it. Go figure.
And now, I find myself skipping H/D fics unless there from author's I know and already like for their merits, and not for the pairing.
So thank you for having the balls to point this out to a fandom that tends to avoid saying that it's fics can be crap.