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

[brownbetty]

Well, wing-fic is a great big bwuh? to me. I have no idea where it comes from.

[liviapenn.livejournal.com]

I think it comes from anime. Manga artists will often put pictures in their artbooks of the characters just randomly having wings because it's pretty. :)

[ratcreature]

I think crossdressing may be similar in that from my impressions it's more popular with art than with fic.

[liviapenn.livejournal.com]

It seemed like there was quite a lot of it in Smallville, but that was just because MR had several crossdressing roles under his belt and so people had the visuals all there to work with already. *G*

[ratcreature]

Yeah, what Livia said, it can be just pretty. I mean, wingfic I get on the same level that I get animal transformations and genderswap and such. It's just fun, and also flying! is just always cool.

[brownbetty]

I think I'm missing the "wings, pretty!" switch. Then again, animal transformation is also wholey dependent on the author in question, whereas genderswap? I'm pretty much always willing to give a whirl.

[ratcreature]

Well, FWIW, looking at your icon, it occurs to me that I'm similarly baffled by centaur!fic. I have read a couple that I liked, but in general horses don't really appeal that much to me.

[brownbetty]

Honestly enough, me too! I mean, the fact that it generally turns slashy only makes my brain recoil in horror.

[ratcreature]

Actually I can get into bestiality fic in general just fine (commonly in my fandoms so far it's been panthers, dogs and wolves mostly, because of the spirit guide thing in TS and the animagus thing in HP), but not with horses...