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meaning, no climax.” What is interesting to me is that Yuri enjoys and
strongly prefers specific genres which she will seek out in every fandom, no
matter how different the source text. Leaning towards “angst” and “gore,”
these fics are the first she will search out in any fandom. Angst according to
the Fanfiction Glossary is a general fandom term, which
Refers to the emotional wounds suffered and/or borne by a
character, especially if they spend pages moaning about
their miserable life in great detail. Can add intensity to a
story or turn it into one big long pity-party. Warning: angst
can be addictive!
In my experience, often certain genres will flourish in some fandoms, while
not being as popular in others. Certainly, the genres will read “differently”: an
emotionally charged fic, in which the main character is tortured, will read
differently at large in the Harry Potter fandom, where there is a certain dark if
fantastical element, than it will in a cop show, with its human criminals.
Yes they read differently, but I always go for the same
thing, which is angst and gore. So on fanfiction.net and
mediaminer, when I get into a new thing, I first search for
“tragedy” and then “angst” and then very last, I’ll select
“romance” or “hentai” [sexually explicit fics].
Some of Yuri’s fandoms have prevalently fem-slash pairings, such as
Revolutionary Girl Utena (1997) or Final Fantasy X-2 (a Playstation II game -
1998). Though she “roots” for the fem-slash pairings either hinted at or openly
displayed in the canonical source text, she does not want to read up on them.
She explains this in the following:
One of the problems with slash is: a good portion of the
fandom is sexual, so that leaves you with a relatively small
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