Of fans and fics

I feel, very strongly, that something can easily be a good fic without necessarily being a good fanfic.

A good fic, or story as they call it outside fandom, manages to convey something. It can have characterisation, plot, buildup, resolution, world-building, all sorts of stuff that makes it a nice read.

A good fanfic has that AND it stays true to to the world and the characters it uses.

So just because a lot of thought and effort has gone into a fic, and it's exciting and whatnot, it can fail completely as a fanfic.

And that's why character bashing fics always are badfics.










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