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Originally Posted by ardeegee
I was thinking that slash was for any sexual crossings-- didn't realize it was m/m or f/f only. I only wrote Gandolf because-- not being a Tolkien fan-- I couldn't remember the name of the character played by Liv Tyler in the movies.  |
Arwen. Yeah, there's a great shortage of Hermione/Arwen. (The m/f stuff is called "het." Fanfic not focused around the romantic elements is called "gen.")
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And this is the truth faced by people who have to plow through slush piles. Most people who think that they can write-- can't. Most self-published writing is very, very, very, very bad.
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Archiveofourown tends to be high-quality as fanfic goes, because it's fairly new, and founded by people who are long-time fanficcers. It hasn't had time to collect the schlock that clutters up fanfiction.net. (There's some good stuff at ff.net... but there's also a whole lot of teenage first writing, twitch shudder.) AO3 (Archive Of Our Own) has limited membership for now, and the writing quality tends to be high.
The writing *subject matter* ranges from "missing episodes" of tv series to bizarre erotica.