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FF.net or AO3?

Zero Moment said:
It wasn't a thing before?
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I cannot stress to you how much it wasn't a thing.

What Kratos says about Gen is really true, I think. I mean, you see it all the time with fandoms - there's an obscure show or game or something and nobody really posts any stuff about it, until someone does, and then all the fans who wanted there to be a fandom just kind of come out of the woodwork. Some people just have to get the ball rolling.
 
I've glanced at this Archive Of Our Own site once or twice, but it seemed to be even more disproportionately pairing-focused than fanfiction.net was. Considering that one of the main reasons I don't even bother trying to find stuff to read on ff.n anymore is the "pairing overdose" that's saturated almost every part of the site, I didn't think that was even possible, but... yeah.
I don't think I saw a single non-pairing-focused story in the first page or two of the sections I looked through (though it has been a while, so I guess it's possible that it's different now), so it seemed like just more of the same old crap to me (...maybe with better grammar, but that's about it) rather than the "OMG SO MUCH BETTER" it was being advertised as.

I hardly read any fanfiction that isn't my own (or my sister's, or a real-life friend's) as it is, though, so I'm pretty much only on fanfiction.net when I'm uploading new stuff or if someone sends me a message/review/etc. that I want to reply to. And the "uploaded files get certain symbols (and sometimes random spaces) trimmed out of them" thing with fanfiction.net is really annoying. I can't imagine how bad writing a Pokémon story on there must be... so many "Pokmon" to go back and correct after ff.net trims out every single é you typed...
 
You know you can search for only 'gen' fiction on AO3? The search function on AO3 is much better, so you might have some luck there.
 
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