I think there's a big difference between small and big fandoms on this. One of my fandoms is all about the OC. Seriously, everyone has their own OC and it's not always to end up shippy. I think in larger fandoms part of it becomes about identity. Camps develop and people gravitate to a camp which they most relate to. And then that sort of informs what people write.
I don't know, as someone who's mostly gen in most of her fandoms and a multishipper in others, it could also be that I see the gen because I want to. But again, I do think that in smaller fandoms where there aren't enough enough authors to segregate into camps, it's different.
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Date: 2007-12-21 01:27 am (UTC)I don't know, as someone who's mostly gen in most of her fandoms and a multishipper in others, it could also be that I see the gen because I want to. But again, I do think that in smaller fandoms where there aren't enough enough authors to segregate into camps, it's different.