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Fanfiction - Good or Evil?
Sil76:
Oh, I'm not saying there's nothing good on ff.net - heck, some of my older stuff is in there somewhere ;D It's just really quite a process, dredging through the muck to find the good stuff. Naturally, once you spot a decent author, you read their stuff, you follow their recommendations to other decent stuff and so on... And if you're really lucky, somewhere along the way you find another handful of sites that aren't a free for all. Less muck is good. ;D
And, incidentally, the trudge is twice as difficult if one is looking for decent het fanfic... Oh, the gallons and gallons of bleach my poor eyes required before I found the smaller sites I now frequent! ;)
Fade:
het????
Sil76:
non-slash... to be most accurate, sticking to cannon-accurate sexual orientation of characters; in other words, if the characters in a pairing are straight in the original work, they are straight in the fanfic.
In general, het sites are 'het-only' sites, mostly because the majority of mixed sites (like ff.net) are slash-heavy, and there are proportionally very few het-heavy sites, especially those that welcome NC17 material.
Nothing wrong with slash, it's all a matter of opinion. Nothing wrong with bi or gay characters either, mind you, but in the case of fanfic, only when the original author intended it that way -- it's part of respecting the original work.
trboturtle:
In anime fanfiction, stories with explict sex are called 'Lemons'. Stories that have sexual situations but no details are called 'Limes'. M/M parings are Yaoi, F/F parings are Yuri.
Strange how different areas develop their own lingo......
Craig
Sil76:
;D
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