yeah i knew an ask like this was coming, i posted it yesterday and i didn’t expect it to blow up that much
in no way am i trashing fics from other fandoms, but from my observations hopping from one fandom to another, the sheer quantity and the quality of 1d fics is incredible. 1d fandom has a lot of fics that are of publishing quality, and my observation is that people in this fandom have been so spoiled that they can’t even recognize that they’re sitting in a fandom with a goldmine of fics. really, outside the 1d fandom (and maybe the fandoms wherein there’s a lot of osmosis with the 1d fandom–harry potter, captive prince, captain america/marvel, bts maybe?) i haven’t, in my 10 years of reading fic, read fic similar to how the 1d fandom authors write fic. there’s a certain way 1d fics are written (on ao3 at least) that make them so addictive and so good, that is just not present in other fics. people write differently, yes, but fics popular in the fandom/fandom preferences definitely play into how people write fics, and so the hegemony in this fandom is that fics are written in a certain way, which is not present (or rarely present) in other fandoms, and so well-written that sometimes i think they should be published. that’s just my observation.
could i have phrased my post better? yeah definitely. but i didn’t know it would blow up, i made that post at around midnight and then went to sleep. i just wanted people not to take for granted what they have in this fandom, show appreciation to the authors who write for free.