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Originally Posted by ficbot
I think the two worst fanfics I ever saw were:
1) A Harry Potter fic that was Weasley twin slash. As in, slash---with each other. With your identical twin. Ewwww.
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Twincest is one of the big themes in Harry Potter slash. It's common, & there's a lot of it. (I take it the one you saw was not the Snape/Harry/Twins story about Harry coming of age into the BDSM community?)
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2) A Joan of Arcadia fic that was Joan/G-d slash. So, the Almighty One not only chooses to manifest on the earthly plane for the purposes of sex, but a) chooses underage girls as their partner and b) chooses underage girls who are their employee. God as the lesbian sexual harassing pedophile. Great fanfic idea! Not.
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There's a trope in fanfic of "what's the most extreme pairing or possibility I could imagine... someone should write that." (Neither of these examples remotely qualifies. Malfoycest is a lot creepier than either of these examples, and it's not considered particularly extreme. Icky, but not extreme. Extreme involves the giant squid.)
Fanfic, as an unregulated literary genre, allows exploration of themes and concepts that cannot be done in other arenas. It's very much part of the story that the fanfic *is not real*--it's important that these stories exist in contrast to the original canon; they're not stand-alone stories with random characters. Sometimes the fanfic is pushing an idea of "it might be this way and the author just didn't tell you;" more often it's asking "if it were this way, how would that change the rest of the book/movie/tv show? How would it change the characters, the world, the ending?"
Fanfic is sometimes-to-often a form of analysis & criticism, a spotlight on some aspect of the original that the fanfic author thinks is worth noting. (I'll grant that, fairly often, what the fanfic author wishes to note is "there's not enough sex in this tv show. Let me fix that for you.")