Having also been called repetitious (which, much like 'she writes borderline Mary-Sues out of very minor canon characters!' and 'she writes pairings for the sake of pairings!' is an insult which makes me go *blinkity* and say 'Uh, yeah, I thought that was pretty evident, one might even say intentional on my part, but thanks for pointing it out for tedium's sake!'), all I have to say is that
- Hobbits and Robins have both been around since the thirties, so -- what with postmodernism and movieverses and the like -- I don't think you're actually going to end up against the firing-squad wall if you don't have something startling and new to say every time.
- It is a big jump from Hobbiton to Gotham, and I imagine that if I were shuttling between the two with regularity my head would probably hurt a lot. So even if you were risking death by stoning by writing a similar story in both fandoms (obviously nobody in the world of fanfic ever gets stupidly worked up over ridiculous things; I would never imply such a thing about boring cranky killjoys), the difference in character and place would make the story a very different beast. Because, like, if you just wanted to tell the same story again, why would you have switched to a different fandom to tell it?
I know I'm repeating myself a bit, but Tolkien repeated himself all the time (amputation, eagles, what's not to like?) and comics repeat themselves all the time (Batman has issues! Batman needs to trust people! Batman has trouble trusting people! Batman hurts those who love him, due to trust issues!), and the sad fact is that there will always be whiny dickheads who want to piss in other people's corn flakes. I'm sure there's some sort of universal law stating as such.
Write what you want to write, be it Dick/Tim or hobbits or whatever else. Your readers (of which I'm one, but I'm so behind that I haven't gotten through the pile and left comments in, like, ever) don't just read you because of what you write (because hey, know what? Fandom's repetitive, too. Try typing 'pleasure slave' into a star wars archive search sometime), they read you because of how you write.
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- Hobbits and Robins have both been around since the thirties, so -- what with postmodernism and movieverses and the like -- I don't think you're actually going to end up against the firing-squad wall if you don't have something startling and new to say every time.
- It is a big jump from Hobbiton to Gotham, and I imagine that if I were shuttling between the two with regularity my head would probably hurt a lot. So even if you were risking death by stoning by writing a similar story in both fandoms (obviously nobody in the world of fanfic ever gets stupidly worked up over ridiculous things; I would never imply such a thing about boring cranky killjoys), the difference in character and place would make the story a very different beast. Because, like, if you just wanted to tell the same story again, why would you have switched to a different fandom to tell it?
I know I'm repeating myself a bit, but Tolkien repeated himself all the time (amputation, eagles, what's not to like?) and comics repeat themselves all the time (Batman has issues! Batman needs to trust people! Batman has trouble trusting people! Batman hurts those who love him, due to trust issues!), and the sad fact is that there will always be whiny dickheads who want to piss in other people's corn flakes. I'm sure there's some sort of universal law stating as such.
Write what you want to write, be it Dick/Tim or hobbits or whatever else. Your readers (of which I'm one, but I'm so behind that I haven't gotten through the pile and left comments in, like, ever) don't just read you because of what you write (because hey, know what? Fandom's repetitive, too. Try typing 'pleasure slave' into a star wars archive search sometime), they read you because of how you write.
I'll stop blithering now.