On Fanfiction: tagging

[alnair_tair]

There’s is nothing that repels me more from reading a fic, that a long list of completely unnecessary tags of secondary and tertiary charas, and all sort of tropes that are touched only in passing.

A few years back I gave those stories some opportunities, trying to read them. Then I realised they were superficial and pandering towards the biggest number of readers possible by including lots and lots of implausible tropes or characterization.

Sometimes it’s just that an author is overcautious, and new to the fandom scene, or the horrible kind to put an unholy amount of drabbles and one-shots in the same. I won’t read either, bcs I hate not knowing which chaps are the ones with the one-shots I’d like. And when the author is an amateur ficwriter…  

Well. Sometimes they’re good, other’s okey, but most times they’re just passable and I’m afraid the almost 10 years I’ve been reading fic have made into a fic snob. 

And it’s horrible to go searching for a concrete pairing or prompt-trope-tag and see a pages and pages of basically trash or unrelated fic, where that specific term or fandom tag you’re searching is inundated and gah.

I guess reading fic is like being one of those goldminers of old, searching in the mud for the golden ones. xD