I hate most "genre" romances, and maybe that's why? The historical inaccuracy really makes me twitch, especially since I have a button which things that there's nothing romantic about pirates, cowboys are obnoxious, and God help me if you try to convince me a "saucy" woman would ever be conceived of as attractive to a Lord of the Manor. Historical romance is a shared fantasy genre.
A lot of my favorite fanfics are the ones that play on the fandom cliches, inverting them to show a different spin... there's nothing I like so much as reading something and saying, "of course, that makes sense now!" or "that is EXACTLY what should happen/how it is."
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Date: 20 Nov 2009 12:01 am (UTC)A lot of my favorite fanfics are the ones that play on the fandom cliches, inverting them to show a different spin... there's nothing I like so much as reading something and saying, "of course, that makes sense now!" or "that is EXACTLY what should happen/how it is."