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.

[brownbetty]

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

[thornsilver]

Mpreg. Mpreg-mpreg-mpreg!!!

Because males do not get pregnant. That's what makes them male.

[catmoran.livejournal.com]

I don't know if this counts as a sub-genre, or if it's just plain badfic:

AUs where the characters share nothing but their appearance and/or name with their canon counterparts.

[simargl-wings.livejournal.com]

Deliberate badfic.

When people go "You know what would be really bad? Sesame Street porn!" or something like that and go out and write it. I don't think it's really that funny when done on purpose.

[(Anonymous)]

The all-time, strangest, most shocking genre i've ever seen (never mind read) has to be an O'Neill/Thor(SG-1) fic my friend wrote. She got some "you are a bad, bad person" comments for that one though.

It just confuses me because... thor doesn't even have genitalia! How could it happen?!? Its physically impossible (like MPreg but I can accept that).