Question upon question ...
Dec. 6th, 2008 02:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
scottishlassComing from a fandom that only had the occasional slasher but lots and lots of het fic, I sometimes wonder about this whole boyband/Johnny boys fandom.
Sure, an all male members band will probably accumulate a lot of slash, esp. when you see bands like KAT-TUN and their fanservice or Kinki Kids (WOAH MOMMA!!).
What I can't understand though is that het fic is shunned so badly in the fandom. Can't we non-slasher fans have literary fantasies as well? While non-slash fans like me love to read the occasional slash fic, esp. when the characterization and overall plot is written very well, I have noticed that almost all slashers ignore or even make fun of non-slash fan fiction. Why is that so?
Take the SMAP fan fic fandom ... okay, so not many sempai writing authors around, but from the SMAP stories I have read so far that are publicly posted in official JE fan fic boards/communities, I can only name two authors whose fic I really like because they are exceptionally good writers. Their stories show that they give a lot of thought to plot and characterization and go for quality not notoriety. The rest? Badly spelled, badly characterized and soooo Mary Sueish in a slasher way, that I feel dirty after reading them.
And then of course there is het fic ... or is there? So far I know of only two writers who write SMAP het fic. And one of them is me though I haven't published anything yet. But a good friend of mine ... oh woah!! She has written the most amazing Shingo/het fics so far but did she get a lot of reviews/praises/critiques? None, Nada, Zip. It went as far as she deleted her stories again from the biggest JE fanfic community because even the lousiest written (slash) fic got more praise than her het fics.
Something isn't right ... or perhaps my friend and I are just old dinosaurs in a fandom where teenies write. I don't know ... but I find it sad.
This said, here are my favourite SMAP writers ... in no particular order
slash -![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
honeyswallow, goblinbrodie both are strong writers with very good characterizations and funny/bittersweet plots.
het -little_witch27 posting as novelcuisine, her stories SHOYA and SAYONARA are the most beautiful pieces written I have read in a long time in a purely fannish AND professional way.
Sure, an all male members band will probably accumulate a lot of slash, esp. when you see bands like KAT-TUN and their fanservice or Kinki Kids (WOAH MOMMA!!).
What I can't understand though is that het fic is shunned so badly in the fandom. Can't we non-slasher fans have literary fantasies as well? While non-slash fans like me love to read the occasional slash fic, esp. when the characterization and overall plot is written very well, I have noticed that almost all slashers ignore or even make fun of non-slash fan fiction. Why is that so?
Take the SMAP fan fic fandom ... okay, so not many sempai writing authors around, but from the SMAP stories I have read so far that are publicly posted in official JE fan fic boards/communities, I can only name two authors whose fic I really like because they are exceptionally good writers. Their stories show that they give a lot of thought to plot and characterization and go for quality not notoriety. The rest? Badly spelled, badly characterized and soooo Mary Sueish in a slasher way, that I feel dirty after reading them.
And then of course there is het fic ... or is there? So far I know of only two writers who write SMAP het fic. And one of them is me though I haven't published anything yet. But a good friend of mine ... oh woah!! She has written the most amazing Shingo/het fics so far but did she get a lot of reviews/praises/critiques? None, Nada, Zip. It went as far as she deleted her stories again from the biggest JE fanfic community because even the lousiest written (slash) fic got more praise than her het fics.
Something isn't right ... or perhaps my friend and I are just old dinosaurs in a fandom where teenies write. I don't know ... but I find it sad.
This said, here are my favourite SMAP writers ... in no particular order
slash -
honeyswallow, goblinbrodie both are strong writers with very good characterizations and funny/bittersweet plots.het -
little_witch27 posting as novelcuisine, her stories SHOYA and SAYONARA are the most beautiful pieces written I have read in a long time in a purely fannish AND professional way.
