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Re: Foggy rapes Matt???

[(Anonymous)]

+100000

I think one of the big reasons why slavefic has caused so much tension is because we haven't cleared the air about warnings, flatmeme, and subject titles. Fandom exists over a lot of platforms, all with its own conventions and silent rules, and it's impossible to expect everyone to be on the same page immediately. I think this whole discussion will go a long way towards avoiding possible future conflicts too.

Re: Foggy rapes Matt???

[(Anonymous)]

...huh. You know, that flatmeme thing might be something to look into.

If a slavefic fan is new to the meme, or just doesn’t get/use flatmeme, then that might explain why some of them feel like the comments of 'wow, there's a lot of slavefic' are some sort of unprovoked attack rather than it being like someone saying 'wow, it's really windy today'.

Because in threaded view, it's like you're in your own little house doing your own thing while people in neighboring threads do *their* thing and all of it is mostly separate and self-contained. Commenting on a thread explosion in that kind of environment looks a lot more like sour grapes, especially since you could easily ignore it if you wanted to.

While in flatmeme NOTHING is separate. You get everything all the time, whether you like what's on offer or not. And what flatmemers have been getting the last few months is 100k+ worth of slavefic when for all of the year before that slavefic wasn't even a blip on the radar. That's blink worthy at *least.*

And then the follow up question becomes 'so who's doing all this writing?' And the answer is, 'a relatively small group (in comparison to all the content that's being created) of slavefic fans.' And that's not a judgement. It’s just a mystery solved.