To my mind (and thanks for bringing this up, because I've been wondering about it lately) -
Not all humorous stories are crack!fic, but all crack!fic are humorous.
Hmm. I think that's working for me.
As a reader, I wouldn't want the term crack!fic to be used as an excuse for shoddy writing (ridiculous premise, OOC-edness, impossible to read because of errors). As a writer, I've used the term once to describe one of my fics, and it could just as easily have been labelled 'humour' or 'silly'.
I don't think any crack!fic can be angsty or dark. It is a property of crack!fic that it be funny or so completely out there that you're laughing at the bizarreness of it.
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Date: 2006-01-19 08:27 am (UTC)Not all humorous stories are crack!fic, but all crack!fic are humorous.
Hmm. I think that's working for me.
As a reader, I wouldn't want the term crack!fic to be used as an excuse for shoddy writing (ridiculous premise, OOC-edness, impossible to read because of errors). As a writer, I've used the term once to describe one of my fics, and it could just as easily have been labelled 'humour' or 'silly'.
I don't think any crack!fic can be angsty or dark. It is a property of crack!fic that it be funny or so completely out there that you're laughing at the bizarreness of it.