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[tree_and_leaf]

Gosh, there's a lot of rubbish reboot Trekfic on the AO3 these days. Benedict Cumberbatch seems to be inadvertently to blame for some of it, as there is the usual rash of badly-written Sherlock crossovers*, but even discounting that, the quality seems to have gone down dramatically.

Also, I wish people wouldn't tag slashfics with 'gay sex'.


* Stupid though Martin Crieff/ John Watson or Martin Crieff/ Moriarty is as a premise, it's surely topped by Khan Noonien Singh/ Molly Hooper?

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[tree_and_leaf]

And also there hasn't been any new canon for a while, which is fine in a small fandom where there is lots of ground that hasn't been covered, and people are probably in the fandom to engage with that, but more of an issue in a big and trope-heavy fandom, especially when it involves Benedict Cumberbatch.

That's a good point.

Khan Noonien Singh/Molly Hooper is at least more plausible than Kirk/Smaug.

Anatomically, if nothing else. Has anyone written that? I'm not sure I dare look.

I suspect that at least some of the warning/promise relates to the fact that the characters in the fic are old/middle-aged, and thus officially beyond the age up to which sex is allowed.

Heh. Yes, probably.

[nineveh_uk]

I would bet that someone has written it somewhere (kink memes? I'm not going to look). AO3 is not promising, though it does contain McCoy/Smaug. Bilbo/Smaug is of course A Thing.

[ineptshieldmaid]

Bilbo/Smaug became a thing as soon as Cumbersnoot was cast, I remember that (I mean, fandom being a thing it would've become a thing eventually: given Snape/Giant Squid exists, Smaug is a perfectly cromulent participant in erotic fanfic).

[tree_and_leaf]

... I am now wondering what the fact that I find Giant Squid porn unsurprising, but Smaug porn implausible, says about me.

And whether I actually want to know.

[nineveh_uk]

That you find plausible those things that grow organically, such as that given enough time and enough fans, everything will happen, particularly when it is Harry Potter fandom, which would try anything for the sake of fun, vs something being obviously about wanting to shoehorn in a favourite actor for the sake of barely-veiled RPF.

[aunty_marion]

One of the more unlikely fics I read once was Giant Squid/Astronomy Tower.