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

[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*