Could also be that a lot of people are lonely and want to be chosen by someone/something.
>>People can grab onto little things and build whole edifices on them.<<
I observe that superhero (and some magic) settings often produce fanfics that explore the science behind powers, or apply science/logic to the use of powers.
>>Which stories and fanwriters get the most hits? <<
Some sites allow you to look at people's favorites or saved works. If you find someone who has similar taste in stories, that is another option to find good stuff.
>>The Trill episodes are popular for fanfic because, for instance, a symbiont who changes hosts is expected to drop previous relationships. What if they didn't? How would people cope with changing bodies and the impact on their relationships?<<
I read a good fanfic once that had a culture that was designed to incorporate that sort of shifting between identities and relationships. Alas, it was a discussion of a dying culture used to give background context to a more current in-universe problem. (Although...if those pronoun sets had actually been developed it might be very useful for humans who have radical shifts in persona or self-perception. Think bipolar disorder.)
>> What color would your dragon be,...<<
I wish they had more stories about the watch-whers. And I was never entirely clear if other humans ever returned to the Lost Colony...
>>What shape would your daemon take? <<
Daemonfic that incorporate daemon-equivalents for aliens can be pretty interesting. (Also, that is canon to the source material, where humans and witched have daemons, but the armored bears craft their armor and the mulefa can perceive and interact with Dust directly.)
>>Then you'll have some things that span fandoms, genres, literature as a whole.
Though you probably want to control for stuff that is so common it skews the results. Like multiple Generic Romance Plots.
>>Almost every fandom runs heavily to fixits. <<
I observe that you have canon universes that serve as fixits for Real Life.
>>A lot of it is really surface work. Hollywood likes to cover that with sex appeal and explosions.<<
...because that works on a lot of people. If someone likes it, fine, but the trend to focus on that stuff exclusively can be annoying for people who tend to latch on to patterns and details. Just like an extrovert-focused society bugs introverts.
...I remember noting the incongruity of a setting that had no real explanation for dulcimers and royalty in the same geographic area (I suspect the author wanted a mashup of Western romance mixed with marry-into-royalty motif.)
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Could also be that a lot of people are lonely and want to be chosen by someone/something.
>>People can grab onto little things and build whole edifices on them.<<
I observe that superhero (and some magic) settings often produce fanfics that explore the science behind powers, or apply science/logic to the use of powers.
>>Which stories and fanwriters get the most hits? <<
Some sites allow you to look at people's favorites or saved works. If you find someone who has similar taste in stories, that is another option to find good stuff.
>>The Trill episodes are popular for fanfic because, for instance, a symbiont who changes hosts is expected to drop previous relationships. What if they didn't? How would people cope with changing bodies and the impact on their relationships?<<
I read a good fanfic once that had a culture that was designed to incorporate that sort of shifting between identities and relationships. Alas, it was a discussion of a dying culture used to give background context to a more current in-universe problem. (Although...if those pronoun sets had actually been developed it might be very useful for humans who have radical shifts in persona or self-perception. Think bipolar disorder.)
>> What color would your dragon be,...<<
I wish they had more stories about the watch-whers. And I was never entirely clear if other humans ever returned to the Lost Colony...
>>What shape would your daemon take? <<
Daemonfic that incorporate daemon-equivalents for aliens can be pretty interesting. (Also, that is canon to the source material, where humans and witched have daemons, but the armored bears craft their armor and the mulefa can perceive and interact with Dust directly.)
>>Then you'll have some things that span fandoms, genres, literature as a whole.
Though you probably want to control for stuff that is so common it skews the results. Like multiple Generic Romance Plots.
>>Almost every fandom runs heavily to fixits. <<
I observe that you have canon universes that serve as fixits for Real Life.
>>A lot of it is really surface work. Hollywood likes to cover that with sex appeal and explosions.<<
...because that works on a lot of people. If someone likes it, fine, but the trend to focus on that stuff exclusively can be annoying for people who tend to latch on to patterns and details. Just like an extrovert-focused society bugs introverts.
...I remember noting the incongruity of a setting that had no real explanation for dulcimers and royalty in the same geographic area (I suspect the author wanted a mashup of Western romance mixed with marry-into-royalty motif.)