I just posted my first crack_van rec. For some reason, I'm more jittery about this than about posting my own fic.

I wonder what it says about me that I'm less worried about people thinking I'm a bad writer than I am about people thinking I have bad taste?

I felt the same way Anne. I'm not even a slasher, mostly, which puts me on Fandom's special bus wearing a football helmet.

Does het/gen really constitute a minority of fanfic? I would have thought it was the other way around, except that here there's an unusual proportion of slashers.

an unusual proportion of slashers

yep, we're all about the unusual proportions.

I think slashers are just noisier--and I think there are more us here than in the general population. It's a slash sanctuary!

And I think you notice things you don't write.

As for me, I tend to write gen, and have little inclination to want to write slash, but I like reading the stuff. Go figure.

I think it took me four hours to sort out what I wanted and what I was willing to write for Yuletide. Whew.

Does het/gen really constitute a minority of fanfic?

Depends on the fandom, I think. In Smallville, it's a minority. In CSI, it's the majority.

crack_van skews toward slash, but I think that has more to do with the volunteers. Sometimes I get the impression that slash fans are more interconnected (and, I think, multifandom?), and therefore news and information can spread quickly, widely, and get a pretty deep penetration (yeah, yeah).

I've been a fannish crackwhore for years, so it's hard for me to get any kind of accurate picture.

I'm not even a slasher, mostly, which puts me on Fandom's special bus wearing a football helmet.

I love your brain. Have I mentioned that lately? Because I do.

Thanks, shrift. Just not real good at spotting subtext...I mean, yeah, on SV, but I'm not *dead* which is what it would take to miss that, all the popping champagne corks and whatnot. But the family-"values" crowd is really excited about that one...do you think it's amnesia?

But the family-"values" crowd is really excited about that one...do you think it's amnesia?

Hysterical blindness. Gotta be.

Superman is the Great American Hero. He dresses in primary colors. He's in love with Lois Lane. He's got family values and morals and grew up on a farm in a small town, where he carried a torch for the beautiful Lana Lang.

It allows them to overlook the fact that sometimes Clark Kent dresses up like rough trade and asks his obscenely rich, purple-wearing, bad element of a best friend to run away with him. But he does his chores and respects his parents, so it's all good!

bwah!