Sorry. I believe you -- and yet, I didn't start out wanting to make the claim that my taste appears not to be the majority taste.
I come to the statement the hard way, through years of being told I'd love things that made me flinch when I actually got there, and more years of reading about celebrations of aesthetic norms I kind of hate.
Id-vortex fic tends to make me squirm with embarrassment and bail early. I don't like genre romance, and don't read it. I hate hurt/comfort. Redemption-through-healing-true-love gives me the creeps. In my fandom of origin, I dislike many of the most highly-recommended and best-loved works, and the ones I dislike are those that most conform to what I've come to think of as the fanfic majority aesthetic. And, you know, blah blah blah: I could go on, and probably even bring in independent corroborating testimony, but you get the general idea.
I promise, it's not that I'm seduced by the perceived need to present myself as different from the other children. I'm sick to death of it, to tell you the unvarnished truth. I'd love to find my reading tastes situated squarely in the middle, here or anywhere. I can't prove that to you, of course; all I can do is to say that from my own subjective point of view, from over here where I have trouble finding fiction I want to read, let alone media products I can sit through, it sure feels as if it's true.
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Date: 1 Jun 2010 08:44 pm (UTC)I come to the statement the hard way, through years of being told I'd love things that made me flinch when I actually got there, and more years of reading about celebrations of aesthetic norms I kind of hate.
Id-vortex fic tends to make me squirm with embarrassment and bail early. I don't like genre romance, and don't read it. I hate hurt/comfort. Redemption-through-healing-true-love gives me the creeps. In my fandom of origin, I dislike many of the most highly-recommended and best-loved works, and the ones I dislike are those that most conform to what I've come to think of as the fanfic majority aesthetic. And, you know, blah blah blah: I could go on, and probably even bring in independent corroborating testimony, but you get the general idea.
I promise, it's not that I'm seduced by the perceived need to present myself as different from the other children. I'm sick to death of it, to tell you the unvarnished truth. I'd love to find my reading tastes situated squarely in the middle, here or anywhere. I can't prove that to you, of course; all I can do is to say that from my own subjective point of view, from over here where I have trouble finding fiction I want to read, let alone media products I can sit through, it sure feels as if it's true.