Fandoms confuse me.
Let's say a person posts a story about a show that's mostly action/adventure in nature. Now, let's say this story is romance. Or family-centric, or random, fluffy-sweet day-to-day fic. And then let's make ourselves some popcorn as we sit back and watch some wacko or other on
fanficrants throw a shit-fit because the story is being TOTALLY UNFAITHFUL to the TONE of the SOURCE MATERIAL, and SHOULD NOT BE TOLERATED in a FANDOM that should be ALL ABOUT the ACTION!!!!!
Fair enough; they watch the show for action, and they want it in their fic. Personally, I think it's rather annoying to set down ground rules that you can ONLY write stuff in keeping with the genre of the original source material, because most of the time I'm writing and reading fanfic to fill in some blanks, but what can you do? I still understand where the gripe comes from.
Until.
The next day, someone comes along and posts an equally romance-ish, family-ish, or cutesy-fluffy ordinary-day-type fic for a different fandom. A fandom that
is primarily about romance, family, and cutesy-fluffy ordinary day type stuff. Well, we'd better go get some more popcorn, because it's only a matter of time before the bitchin' will start again. This time, it's BORING when EVERY SINGLE STORY is EXACTLY LIKE the SHOW, so NO ONE should EVER WRITE a STORY LIKE THAT AGAIN!!!!!
Yup, here's me confused.