Dispatches from Mundania

[rivkat]

Slate suggests that CSI might be the most fanfic-generative show on TV.

Say wha?

I understand the need for a hook for a story, and I have no beef with anyone who does write and/or read CSI fic, but that's just annoying ignorance. (OK, when I checked on ff.net, CSI was a lot closer to the top of the list than I thought it would be, but even assuming ff.net is a good bellwether for overall numbers, Buffy beats it by an order of magnitude, and the Slate story's links to two archives with a total of about 300 stories between them does not help persuade me.) I'd be interested in a story about Grissom's attractiveness, but not a story that has to get its punch by making up an exclusivity/preeminence that doesn't exist.

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[rivkat.livejournal.com]

I know the feeling, though with 6000-odd stories (possibly very odd stories), ff.net might have little bits of heaven lurking in there somewhere. I don't know whether the archives cited in the Slate story are any good or not.