I must say, I'm continuing to love the meta that's coming out of your Otalia experience. Continue to react. I'm still of the old-fashioned mindset that anything that happens on a soap opera is socially significant, especially one as venerated as Guiding Light, and I'm glad someone's posting analysis of the fandom. And posting analysis that's readable and interesting, not analysis that makes me want to scream and throw things through walls.
I have no problem with rape!fic probably because it doesn't really appear in my fandoms (unless I'm writing it--oops). Just Xena, and Xena was large enough for the IDIC status. I wonder if it has to do with the het-normative status of the characters, vs canon lesbians or indifferent canon (like NCIS--Abby's sexuality is not an obstacle to femslash. Is Otalia's?)
And of course, there's the idea that the better a canon storyline is, the harder it is to write fic about it.
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Date: 2009-06-01 03:30 pm (UTC)I have no problem with rape!fic probably because it doesn't really appear in my fandoms (unless I'm writing it--oops). Just Xena, and Xena was large enough for the IDIC status. I wonder if it has to do with the het-normative status of the characters, vs canon lesbians or indifferent canon (like NCIS--Abby's sexuality is not an obstacle to femslash. Is Otalia's?)
And of course, there's the idea that the better a canon storyline is, the harder it is to write fic about it.