I have no idea why that happens, but it certainly happened to me. I wasn't at all hooked up to online fandom at the time, and I didn't even have an LJ, but I managed to find Area 52, and ended up reading acre upon acre of Woobie!Daniel fics. Usually involving jammies and Daddy!Jack. And...wow. I'm deeply impressed by my own stamina and endurance, yanno?
I think this type of dynamic is inevitable from beginning slash writers (you saw A LOT of it in Professionals fandom, as I recall), and also very often in the beginning days of a fandom. It's as if fanwriters are born with these types of fics already programmed into their brains, since there's no other explanation of how they can produce a 1950's-vintage Harlequin Romance pretty much spontaneously and very often without being IRL readers of Romance of any kind. But since I came into the fandom a good five years on, there's no real explanation of how I ended up only encountering this kind of story. I tended to gravitate toward <10K fics almost exclusively, and I still found myself immersed in it.
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Date: 2014-09-04 11:11 pm (UTC)From:I think this type of dynamic is inevitable from beginning slash writers (you saw A LOT of it in Professionals fandom, as I recall), and also very often in the beginning days of a fandom. It's as if fanwriters are born with these types of fics already programmed into their brains, since there's no other explanation of how they can produce a 1950's-vintage Harlequin Romance pretty much spontaneously and very often without being IRL readers of Romance of any kind. But since I came into the fandom a good five years on, there's no real explanation of how I ended up only encountering this kind of story. I tended to gravitate toward <10K fics almost exclusively, and I still found myself immersed in it.
IDEK.