We talked about tropes in DD fandom in the most recent podcast, and Slavery AUs came up. As did BDSM fic featuring sub!Matt, and our fandom's love of romance tropes and recent trend towards the cracky side of things.
You're right that all fandoms have their things though. Supernatural fandom has so much bestiality fic that it blew my mind, as well as a lot of tentacle porn. Teen Wolf fandom is for obvious reasons big on A/B/O. Sherlock fandom has a ton of romantic trope fic, but also a fair amount of Slavery AUs too from what I've seen. I've been told that Glee fandom's thing for a long time was Alternate First Meeting AUs, and in Marvel fandom you've got Hydra Trash Party, which is a very specific kind of humiliation, non-con and dubcon trope.
I'm super interested in tropes that end up being super specific to a fandom. I feel like with DD, it's not just that we have Slavery AUs, but we've gotten fairly specific kinds of Slavery AUs happening within that framework, based on characterizations of Matt as a person overcoming victimhood and Foggy as a fluffy, open-hearted innocent.
More than the AUs though, I would say that our fandom's big thing is pining and sometimes one-sided unrequited romance between Matt and Foggy. Which I adore it for.
But yeah... the Slavery AUs are interesting and the idea of them all crossing over is cool and a testament to how good some of the worldbuilding has been in them and the creativity of their authors. I wonder if AO3 lets you tag a fic with more than one Related Work?
Re: Slave!Matts + Canon Matt
http://otpodcast.tumblr.com/post/134803540921/episode-7-of-our-show-is-about-all-things#disqus_thread
We talked about tropes in DD fandom in the most recent podcast, and Slavery AUs came up. As did BDSM fic featuring sub!Matt, and our fandom's love of romance tropes and recent trend towards the cracky side of things.
You're right that all fandoms have their things though. Supernatural fandom has so much bestiality fic that it blew my mind, as well as a lot of tentacle porn. Teen Wolf fandom is for obvious reasons big on A/B/O. Sherlock fandom has a ton of romantic trope fic, but also a fair amount of Slavery AUs too from what I've seen. I've been told that Glee fandom's thing for a long time was Alternate First Meeting AUs, and in Marvel fandom you've got Hydra Trash Party, which is a very specific kind of humiliation, non-con and dubcon trope.
I'm super interested in tropes that end up being super specific to a fandom. I feel like with DD, it's not just that we have Slavery AUs, but we've gotten fairly specific kinds of Slavery AUs happening within that framework, based on characterizations of Matt as a person overcoming victimhood and Foggy as a fluffy, open-hearted innocent.
More than the AUs though, I would say that our fandom's big thing is pining and sometimes one-sided unrequited romance between Matt and Foggy. Which I adore it for.
But yeah... the Slavery AUs are interesting and the idea of them all crossing over is cool and a testament to how good some of the worldbuilding has been in them and the creativity of their authors. I wonder if AO3 lets you tag a fic with more than one Related Work?