Date: 18 Jan 2025 07:58 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] hamsterwoman
but let's move swiftly on just in case...)

Hahaha! (Yeah, I do also start thinking about counterexamples and how would this work for me, which usually ends up being some kind of subversion, or else a POV that feels the same about the not-my-favorite trope that I do.)

although increasingly, it feel as rather as if fandom has forgotten too much of the 'what if' and 'have fun' bits of fanficcing.

Now that you mention it, it does feel like those aspects linger sort of only in nostalgia settings, and the newer stuff tends to be more towards "imagine your OTP" [in flower crowns / described by this newspaper headline / etc.] I hadn't thought of that before, but I think you're right that there's a trend away from the random what-if, which was always something I really enjoyed about fandom...

(I'm really very thankful I did not have any sort of proper access to the internet and fandom until I was 18.

Hehe, very much SAME.
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