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what are your thoughts on gen
1. To the several people on my flist who have been reading Riddle-Master and/or the Perilous Gard, two of my all-time favorite formative fantasies: They're so good, aren't they?? Also I mostly read DW on my phone lately so I lost your posts before I could comment on them but I want to say: yes, I agree.
2. Panel suggestions for this year's con.txt convention close today. If you would like a say on what is discussed at this year's con.txt, get your submissions in now! They still have a very low number so you're at risk of far too many of mine getting in. (you don't have to agree to run them just because you suggest them, btw.)
3. A thing I did not suggest as a panel but I keep thinking about lately so I'm going to just dump my thoughts here:
Has anyone else noticed that it seems like non-romance-focused fic is getting a lot more attention lately? Like when I started in fandom, and for many years after, it was axiomatic that almost nobody reads gen. But as you may have noticed I sometimes like to play around with AO3 stats and I keep noticing that it seems like there are more and more & ships and no-relationship fics ranking toward the top. So here are some not-well-thought out points on the question of "why is non-romance fic getting more prominence lately?"
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Anyway that's all very raw braindump and may be completely wrong, anybody else have any thoughts on this?
2. Panel suggestions for this year's con.txt convention close today. If you would like a say on what is discussed at this year's con.txt, get your submissions in now! They still have a very low number so you're at risk of far too many of mine getting in. (you don't have to agree to run them just because you suggest them, btw.)
3. A thing I did not suggest as a panel but I keep thinking about lately so I'm going to just dump my thoughts here:
Has anyone else noticed that it seems like non-romance-focused fic is getting a lot more attention lately? Like when I started in fandom, and for many years after, it was axiomatic that almost nobody reads gen. But as you may have noticed I sometimes like to play around with AO3 stats and I keep noticing that it seems like there are more and more & ships and no-relationship fics ranking toward the top. So here are some not-well-thought out points on the question of "why is non-romance fic getting more prominence lately?"
( Read more... )
Anyway that's all very raw braindump and may be completely wrong, anybody else have any thoughts on this?