brightknightie: Nick picking up Joan's cross (Faith)
Amy ([personal profile] brightknightie) wrote 2020-12-29 02:33 am (UTC)

>"But if you set out to write idfic and it somehow ended up reading like crack to you, I feel like you would have somehow missed achieving idfic and ended up with something else instead."

Ah! Thank you very much. That sentence seems to make the connection I could not, when I looked at the definition and references on Fanlore and just a little general Googling. Almost all the examples of "idfic" that I encountered sounded like "crackfic" to me.

>"for some people it might be 50K of domestic curtainficcy fluff"

Is long length one of the expected characteristics of the idfic genre?

>"gloriously self-indulgent" | "without worrying too much about how or why"

Back to that possibility of a third sub-genre that I'm missing: Is there a classification for a stupendously self-indulgent piece that nevertheless worries about the how and why? Or does the fact of addressing the how and why render it, if not a "normal story," at least "just" an AU?

Thank you!

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