Someone wrote in [community profile] daredevilkink 2015-10-06 01:00 pm (UTC)

Re: Inclusiveness of Defenders?

Another reason to consider this proposal just has to do with the realities of how much crossover fic there will be.

There's a reason that, despite the huge popularity of Thor, Iron Man and Cap individually, fandom chose to go with Avengerkink and they don't each really have their own kink memes. It's because if they didn't do that, fans of each would miss out on amazing crossover stories constantly. Nobody wants to have to duplicate a fantastic Stony fic or Frostiron fic in a half-dozen different memes so that everyone who might like it sees it. You only have to look at AO3 tags and see how many Stony fics that Tony is in are only labelled as "Captain America" or the other way around to realize the value in keeping them all in one place. Same thing goes for great crossover prompts that people want filled. You want as many eyeballs on them as possible so that the right person fills them, regardless of which fandom they're in.

They've already said that Claire is appearing in all of the Defenders shows. And hinted that a major DD character may appear in Jessica Jones. Do you want to miss out on awesome DD-related stories or stories about Claire because you don't check the other three memes?

And what happens when Defenders comes out? That becomes a fourth meme then that everyone from here has to migrate over to, since Matt will be HUGE in that!

And yes, there's no cap on the number of kink memes that can exist. But there is a cap on the number of people who want to go to a half-dozen kink memes when they love this one, even if the other content is stuff they'd like. So I feel like you'd be spreading the fandom too thin and setting each kinkmeme (including this one) up to fail down the road.

I also know that I could go set up a Defenders meme tomorrow. But DD is a Defender! So what does that mean for Daredevil fans? Technically all of the fic here is Defenders fic already. If the DD fans don't go to a Defenders kink meme, it will either completely fail early on because people will be confused as hell, everyone will eventually abandon this kink meme because they think that the Defenders meme is where DD fic now goes (which I don't think anyone here wants) or it will completely fail and everyone will just keep posting Defenders fic here. Why make fans have to choose between two places for DD fic?

I know some people don't want to see this meme change, but it doesn't have to. It can be the same place it's been from the beginning, only just including new characters who are part of it's universe anyway only in an extended way. The plan on Marvel and Netflix's part is for them to be too intertwined for us not to.

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