After reading the comments so far it appears to me:
1. Crackfic is all in the eye of the beholder. A het reader, for example, could be excused for considering a slash story crackfic. So we're just chasing our tails trying to pin down a definition for crackfic.
2. While it's possible for an entire story to be labelled a crackfic by the majority of readers (for me personally: badfic), the better the author/execution/etc., the more likely it is that only parts of their story are crackfic. Although 1 makes this shakey reasoning.
3. The acceptance of crackfic, whole story or part, by the majority of readers (which currently appears to be the case) has to have writers toying with ideas they normally wouldn't have considered, or would have thought unwelcome by the majority of readers. For whether or not this is a good thing: see 1. *g*
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Shallott's Harlequin...would you call that crackfic?
AU, with elements of crackfic - see 2. John a mail-order bride, the romance novel formula, the storm-in-a-teacup ending *facepalm* but it works because it's a Harlequin challenge. Readers may call it crackfic but for clarity the author should label it 'Harlequin Challenge', which she did. (Enjoyed it too, btw)
So I've revised my opinion. While I still like that crackfic has writers writing what they might not normally have considered writing, I've decided labelling a story a crackfic is like labelling a Lotus, a Mazda and a tricycle, 'cars'. A label that does that needs to be ignored.
And I reserve the right to revise my opinion again as more opinions come to light. :P
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Date: 2006-01-18 05:15 pm (UTC)1. Crackfic is all in the eye of the beholder. A het reader, for example, could be excused for considering a slash story crackfic. So we're just chasing our tails trying to pin down a definition for crackfic.
2. While it's possible for an entire story to be labelled a crackfic by the majority of readers (for me personally: badfic), the better the author/execution/etc., the more likely it is that only parts of their story are crackfic. Although 1 makes this shakey reasoning.
3. The acceptance of crackfic, whole story or part, by the majority of readers (which currently appears to be the case) has to have writers toying with ideas they normally wouldn't have considered, or would have thought unwelcome by the majority of readers. For whether or not this is a good thing: see 1. *g*
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Shallott's Harlequin...would you call that crackfic?
AU, with elements of crackfic - see 2. John a mail-order bride, the romance novel formula, the storm-in-a-teacup ending *facepalm* but it works because it's a Harlequin challenge. Readers may call it crackfic but for clarity the author should label it 'Harlequin Challenge', which she did. (Enjoyed it too, btw)
So I've revised my opinion. While I still like that crackfic has writers writing what they might not normally have considered writing, I've decided labelling a story a crackfic is like labelling a Lotus, a Mazda and a tricycle, 'cars'. A label that does that needs to be ignored.
And I reserve the right to revise my opinion again as more opinions come to light. :P