You do, darling. There is some lovely crack. Gen crack, even. Like the ass rainbow story.

Fay, my SPN crackfic is here, in case you want to peruse. I suspect it looks a lot like Plei's SPN crackfic list.

Sadly, even my crackfic (unicorns! mpreg genderswap wingfic!) ends up sadly gen-like.

I'm the most vanilla ficwriter EVER.

Can we have a moment to remember Postapocalyptic Humans as Slaves of Giant Cats, and also the 15-foot cock? Good times, man, good times.

Something about a fandom with magical canon seems to take a lot of the crackness out of it.

with magical canon

Well, it's no fifteen foot cock. But still, watch where you're pointing that thing.

Can we have a moment to remember Postapocalyptic Humans as Slaves of Giant Cats, and also the 15-foot cock? Good times, man, good times.

Man, yeah. 15' alien tree cock! Fuck, I love typo-ridden badfic at times.

GIANT CATS.

You know, I made the mistake of reading some slash meta from what appears to be, I dunno, an older school branch of slash fandom, and not only do I have eyestrain from reading it on my iPhone, I have it from how hard my eyes rolled out of my head.

I've had slash goggles as long as I can remember.

Yet curiously, this fails to lead to an, eww! het! response, nor is the het I read worse* than the slash, or somehow more prey to antiquated gender roles. What kinda het did these peeps read?

*Okay, maybe in Certain Fandoms, but that's mostly because the only people who slash in it that I can find aren't really in Said Fandoms. Oh, who the fuck am I kidding? Yes, I'm talking about Dark Angel. OMG, I've read so much bad het in that, the shit that actually fits the descriptions in said meta, but that's NOT the case in any of my other fandoms. It's like, a craptastic exception.

What kinda het did these peeps read?

Presumably, Mary Sue, with the Spock, in the drawing room.

Well, I don't know that they're THAT old school.

I think they're more from the 80s/90s era, and such slashterpieces as A Fish Called Krycek. It would probably help if anyone in threads like that (aside from the people who are honest enough to admit that having a female character involved bothers them on some visceral level--which is an argument/explanation I've seen from some friends, and is more complicated than I've made it seen) would clearly articulate what they hope to find in a het story when they venture out of the slash corner, and what they've found instead. Reading it, I feel like I'm looking through a dirty window at people who are wandering around Hetsville without a map and getting trapped in the bad neighborhoods.

I suspect Nutty is right. And also? Such het is still around, I guess, because I keep seeing people say, with straight faces fonts, "I stay away from het with OFCs because of the Mary Sue issue." And I go, buh?

I've seen damn little SPN het, fr'instance, that actually uses a character you could call a Mary Sue.

Of course today I saw a couple of anti-slash gen writers (absolutely anti-slash, not just gen-preferring) boggling at the concept that there could be some latent misogyny in slash circles. Not just boggling, mocking the very idea.

I did not, in fact, come down on them like the wrath of Andrea Dworkin. Tempted though I was.

So... yeah. Old-school ideas, still quite rampant.

I suspect Nutty is right. And also? Such het is still around, I guess, because I keep seeing people say, with straight faces fonts, "I stay away from het with OFCs because of the Mary Sue issue." And I go, buh?

So frustrating!

Of course today I saw a couple of anti-slash gen writers (absolutely anti-slash, not just gen-preferring) boggling at the concept that there could be some latent misogyny in slash circles. Not just boggling, mocking the very idea.

What are you gonna do? There are strands of misogyny in some slash circles (internalized, and often unconscious), hints of homophobia in some gen and het circles (again, often unconscious), and so on and so forth. It's that damned made of people problem.

Somehow, today was the day for me to click on links, blink, and go, "okay, so could you tell me what assumptions you haven't yet checked at the door again?"