To the idea that certain types of stories are less acceptable, mockable or lightweight, not worthy of serious reading or writing consideration. Mpreg, wingfic, stories that have been fairly widely laughed at, snarked about, pooped on or otherwise classed as 'lesser.' Are some people labeling their secret kinks 'crackfic' as camouflage, so that they won't be tarred with the 'unworthy' brush, rather than saying, 'hell, yes, I like this, wanna make something of it?' I'm not really worried about the potential repression of the elf-lovers so much as I'm just pondering the idea. It's a new thought, for me.
To me, it is the flip side of a story labeled experimental, which to me is something sort of pretentious -- weighty and heavy, obscuring the story, and intending to be considered a 'serious' work. Whereas crack!fic is what it is, without pretentions....intellectual appeal =experimental, emotional appeal =crack!fic
I love what's coming out about how the term strikes different people in different ways. No wonder there's no consensus on a definition. How cool.
Or so I feel at this moment. Ask me what I think tomorrow.
Yeah, tell me about it. *g* My views are changing with every response.
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To the idea that certain types of stories are less acceptable, mockable or lightweight, not worthy of serious reading or writing consideration. Mpreg, wingfic, stories that have been fairly widely laughed at, snarked about, pooped on or otherwise classed as 'lesser.' Are some people labeling their secret kinks 'crackfic' as camouflage, so that they won't be tarred with the 'unworthy' brush, rather than saying, 'hell, yes, I like this, wanna make something of it?' I'm not really worried about the potential repression of the elf-lovers so much as I'm just pondering the idea. It's a new thought, for me.
To me, it is the flip side of a story labeled experimental, which to me is something sort of pretentious -- weighty and heavy, obscuring the story, and intending to be considered a 'serious' work. Whereas crack!fic is what it is, without pretentions....intellectual appeal =experimental, emotional appeal =crack!fic
I love what's coming out about how the term strikes different people in different ways. No wonder there's no consensus on a definition. How cool.
Or so I feel at this moment. Ask me what I think tomorrow.
Yeah, tell me about it. *g* My views are changing with every response.