Burning question...

[rabbitwrath.livejournal.com]

So I've been in the CM fandom for a while now, and as much as I'm loving it, a strange...unease...has been growing in me.

I've been in a lot of fandoms, and I've read a lot of fanfiction. It tends to follow patterns, a sort of rough pyramid; at the bottom, reams of incoherent dreck, narrowing into the realms of 'not too bad' and peaking with a few excellent stories. It's a pattern I've found as unfailing as sunrise.

But this doesn't seem to have happened in the CM fandom. Have I ended up on a strange new planet? Have I found the one corner of the internet free from The Awful? People, I have to ask - where is your badfic?

Where are the Sues, the Stus and the painfully OOC canon characters? Where is TerribleCheesyFlirting!Garcia and SecretlyDescendedFromElvishRoyalty!Reid? Where is the teeth-grindingly awful angst? The nauseating fluff? Where are the cliched hackneyed plots done again and again? Why haven't I seen a single fic where Morgan and Reid are mysteriously turned into three-year-olds and allowed to run around the BAU?

This is like being in a dark room and waiting for the scary monster to tap me on the shoulder. Please, put me out of my misery!

Comments

[mcgarrygirl78.livejournal.com]

While this may be your favorite entry ever, your comment almost made me fall off the bed laughing : D

[ohh-honeybee.livejournal.com]

I second this. OMG.

[a_blackpanther]

Yes. This. Although i'm fairly certain there's something similar on FF.net somewhere.

[ohh-honeybee.livejournal.com]

That thought is really rather frightening. O_O