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aggression (and, depending on the degree of torture, may be additionally
labeled as “dark”) or whether the story starts with the beginning of the
aftermath of a sexual aggression (in which case, depending on the plot line
and fandom, it may be also categorized as “Hurt/Comfort”), is up to the author
of course. Some people who read non-con read it because they have rapefantasies,
others read it because they like angst, and even others just read it as
they would read any number of different genres, expecting a struggle for
psychological balance and a happy ending. As Red mentioned to me the other
day, “I have read fics who just have rape in them because they need the angst;
they’re very fluffy, and they still have rape in them, just because people
couldn’t figure out how else to put angst in.” What is most interesting, to me
at least, is not the existence of rape, darkness and pain in fanfics; there are as
many funny and fluffy fics. It is the shared conventions of labeling fics, of
having categories at the header including rating (G-NC17 mostly) and
warnings (angst, fluff, dark, death etc.), and the notion of good etiquette to put
up these warnings in one’s stories, as well as the formation of a common code
of language and terminology that enables the sharing of “keywords” which
convey larger ideas. In a very real sense, most of the terms various fandoms
have coined have this meaning, and if the reader refers to Kielly’s Fanfiction
Glossary in the Appendix, she/he can see many of the most common ones,
categorized according to fandom, but often used cross-fandom (as fans are
rarely monogamous online).
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