There's bad slash out there but the worst slash seems to be *way* better than the worst gen, which falls into all the cliches a 14-year old MarySue writer can imagine.
It makes me want to hide my face in shame. I'm beginning to think I got rather spoiled over in SG, where there were so many fine gen writers. I'd put the gen SG up against the slash SG any day. And that's not even mentioning the high proportion of good h/c.
(many of them apparently under the illusion that they invented fandom)
*snort* Did I tell you about one of the HP4GU websites that I ran into where the creator claimed HP4GU coined the term 'ship'?
Maybe people just aren't seeing the same gaps in canon to fill?
That's a really good point. Most canon sources are episodic, which I think leaves a great deal more in terms of gaps. There are some examples of movies spawning huge traditional fandoms (like SW), but movies and books do seem on the whole less likely to generate traditional fanfic fandoms.
Also, the books are all Harry POV, which I suppose can be limiting. But I would think that the flip side of that is retelling stories from other characters' POV (for example, CoS from Lockhart POV has the potential to be incredibly amusing, while PS/SS or OotP from Snape's POV could be exciting).
I find there's generally scorn towards AUs, so I'm not even going into that subject, but you'd think there'd be much more room for manoeuvre, wouldn't you?
As you know, I adore AUs (esp if they are dark and tragic), so you wouldn't hear me complain, but yes, I would actually think HP would generate quite a few AUs (ie, Neville as TBWL, Harry's parents live). I came close to applying for an AU RPG because of the intriguing plot line.
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It makes me want to hide my face in shame. I'm beginning to think I got rather spoiled over in SG, where there were so many fine gen writers. I'd put the gen SG up against the slash SG any day. And that's not even mentioning the high proportion of good h/c.
(many of them apparently under the illusion that they invented fandom)
*snort* Did I tell you about one of the HP4GU websites that I ran into where the creator claimed HP4GU coined the term 'ship'?
Maybe people just aren't seeing the same gaps in canon to fill?
That's a really good point. Most canon sources are episodic, which I think leaves a great deal more in terms of gaps. There are some examples of movies spawning huge traditional fandoms (like SW), but movies and books do seem on the whole less likely to generate traditional fanfic fandoms.
Also, the books are all Harry POV, which I suppose can be limiting. But I would think that the flip side of that is retelling stories from other characters' POV (for example, CoS from Lockhart POV has the potential to be incredibly amusing, while PS/SS or OotP from Snape's POV could be exciting).
I find there's generally scorn towards AUs, so I'm not even going into that subject, but you'd think there'd be much more room for manoeuvre, wouldn't you?
As you know, I adore AUs (esp if they are dark and tragic), so you wouldn't hear me complain, but yes, I would actually think HP would generate quite a few AUs (ie, Neville as TBWL, Harry's parents live). I came close to applying for an AU RPG because of the intriguing plot line.