>Why do these problems occur? How can each person contribute? How have you contributed? How do you overcome or mitigate them?
This is a tall order of questions. Basically:
1) Fandoms accumulate trends and cliches. It just happens. Same goes for normal lit genres. 2) They write fanfic that either uses those tropes, de/reconstructs them, or avoids them. 3) I don't think of my fanfic as intentionally commentating on fandom trends. I occasionally write in-story scenes that are a response to certain things I've read in other fics, like the fact I've pointedly avoided ever using "Good Agni!" or "Agni" anything in my fics, but the only fic that I wrote specifically as a response to a fandom's trends is one I've only gotten to the planning stages of. (It's an Evangelion fic I've outlined, one that address a lot of problems I have with the fandom and with my previous Eva fic, Taking Sights.) 4) You can go after these trends yourself, for one thing. But fandom's an organic thing and then people will be responding to your response.
>Harry Potter how did you feel about the Ginny romance?
I could take it or leave it. I've seen it done well in fic, and I've also seen it overplayed and idealized.
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>Why do these problems occur? How can each person contribute? How have you contributed? How do you overcome or mitigate them?
This is a tall order of questions. Basically:
1) Fandoms accumulate trends and cliches. It just happens. Same goes for normal lit genres.
2) They write fanfic that either uses those tropes, de/reconstructs them, or avoids them.
3) I don't think of my fanfic as intentionally commentating on fandom trends. I occasionally write in-story scenes that are a response to certain things I've read in other fics, like the fact I've pointedly avoided ever using "Good Agni!" or "Agni" anything in my fics, but the only fic that I wrote specifically as a response to a fandom's trends is one I've only gotten to the planning stages of. (It's an Evangelion fic I've outlined, one that address a lot of problems I have with the fandom and with my previous Eva fic, Taking Sights.)
4) You can go after these trends yourself, for one thing. But fandom's an organic thing and then people will be responding to your response.
>Harry Potter how did you feel about the Ginny romance?
I could take it or leave it. I've seen it done well in fic, and I've also seen it overplayed and idealized.