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square peg, round hole
A good number of my fanfic pet peeves are due to writers trying to fit square pegs into round holes.
There characters for whom domesticity is a better match than for others.
There are stories that make the most of an explicit sex scene, and there are stories that are ground to a tedious halt by sex scenes.
There are fandoms that are absolutely primed for a high school AU, and there are fandoms where it just wouldn't make a lick of sense, no matter how AU you take it.
I know, I know - it's fic, and we can do whatever we like with the source material. That's the point, right? But honest to god, you don't need to tell EVERY STORY EVER with the same damn characters, in the same damn fandom. Sometimes you'll find a better match if you switch gears and write it in... idk, Moby Dick fandom.
You can keep on jamming that square peg into that round hole, or you can hold onto it until you find a naturally square hole.
On a side note, where's my freaking zombiepocalypse Gilmore Girls AU!? Damn it, world.
There characters for whom domesticity is a better match than for others.
There are stories that make the most of an explicit sex scene, and there are stories that are ground to a tedious halt by sex scenes.
There are fandoms that are absolutely primed for a high school AU, and there are fandoms where it just wouldn't make a lick of sense, no matter how AU you take it.
I know, I know - it's fic, and we can do whatever we like with the source material. That's the point, right? But honest to god, you don't need to tell EVERY STORY EVER with the same damn characters, in the same damn fandom. Sometimes you'll find a better match if you switch gears and write it in... idk, Moby Dick fandom.
You can keep on jamming that square peg into that round hole, or you can hold onto it until you find a naturally square hole.
On a side note, where's my freaking zombiepocalypse Gilmore Girls AU!? Damn it, world.