I need to reread it too, it's been quite a long time. But the people who have recently read it are making me hopeful it will hold up. (I never got into her later stuff as much, but I think that's because they got more atmospheric and less plotty over time, Riddle-Master had just about the perfect balance for me.)
Team fic is so! I agree too that writers are less likely to write Only One Ship (or Only Slash, Only Het, or Only Gen, for that matter.) I think that's partly a result of AO3 too though, when your only engagement with a fandom was for the This Pairing mailing list or This Pairing LJ Comm, there's a lot more motivation to stick with just the one pairing!
The hard-to-categorize fic is a good point - we used to have, like, smarm, which was intense friendship fic that was basically romance-but-not-queer!!!! and I feel like a lot of what I'm reading now is a sort of modern equivalent that's intense friendship fic that's queer-but-not-romance!!!!
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Team fic is so! I agree too that writers are less likely to write Only One Ship (or Only Slash, Only Het, or Only Gen, for that matter.) I think that's partly a result of AO3 too though, when your only engagement with a fandom was for the This Pairing mailing list or This Pairing LJ Comm, there's a lot more motivation to stick with just the one pairing!
The hard-to-categorize fic is a good point - we used to have, like, smarm, which was intense friendship fic that was basically romance-but-not-queer!!!! and I feel like a lot of what I'm reading now is a sort of modern equivalent that's intense friendship fic that's queer-but-not-romance!!!!