random curiosity...

[ratcreature]

What is the fanfic sub-genre that baffles you the most, like a plot device or kink or whatever, that you would have never guessed even existed as a button for others, yet there is a bunch of fic for it (or at least more than a few, I don't mean really rare bizarreness like Fawkes/Squid fanfic or whatever).

I think for me it is fanfic turning canonically unrelated characters into family in order to then have an incest fic rather like regular slash (I haven't just seen this happening with het ships, but I guess it might as well). It's not that common but for example on painless_j's Snape/Harry Incest thematic list are a dozen stories or so, and I've seen it with other characters as well.

Comments

[sanj.livejournal.com]

Oh, it's MPREG. I mean, it's all yadda yadda now, but when I first got into slash I was like, "you have *got* to be kidding."

I understand (and even really like) baby stories, weird incubator accidents, adoption scenarios, genderswap, whatever -- but the stories where the a man actually gets pregnant in his male body were ... strange ... to me, in a way that "not my kink" just doesn't even cover. And that remains to this day.

But I will read the Severitus slash, because I have both an incest kink and a master/student kink, and I'm a whore for Snarry of any kind.... But I don't really prefer seeing those two kinks indulged together, and I think the Severitus scenario, while plausible, is terribly unfair to James and Lily. So, I read it, but I don't chase it down, if that makes sense.

[ratcreature]

When I first came into HP I was surprised even that Severitus was a whole genre, but I get the appeal, because I like Snape-as-mentor fic.

I was a bit "huh?" about MPREG, but I found MPREG fanfic well after that Schwarzenegger movie, so the idea as such didn't seen that out there to me.