I think for me it's a bit of #1 and a bit of #8. I don't usually ship just one pairing in a given fandom, so it's not that f/f ones lend themselves less well to outlandish tropes. My fannish history is wide and varied, so I've read a lot of tropes and written a few. (In fact, the last time I had a f/f OTP, in Glee fandom, I wrote a superhero high school AU, a sex pollen PWP, and a tentacle fic. Only time I've written any of those three things.) And now I'm looking at my AO3 account and thinking that maybe I shouldn't say I don't write non-conservative f/f, because the first two things under the f/f category are porny incest, and then there's a PWP set in a college office, and further down there's secret dating and a mini spy AU and a number of rare pairings--
--but the truth is, I frequently hold back from writing tropes into f/f, and a big part of that is that there just isn't that much out there. Very often I'll latch onto a pairing and want to write it, but it would be the first or second fic for it, and I find myself fearing it might do the pairing a disservice if the first thing written about them is, say, plotless porn revolving around a cliché or a kink. Then add to that that if there isn't much of an audience for the pairing in the first place, you will cut it down by half by throwing a kink into the mix, and then I'm like, why bother, you know? Plus, again, when a pairing isn't established in fic, especially when it's a rare one or not well-supported by canon, I feel compelled to explain it, to set it up and build it up in fic, to sort of give it the base it deserves, and giving a rare pairing a base can take a lot of work that's just not really worth it if you're the only person who's going to enjoy the existence of that fic. So I don't write the base fic, and I don't write anything else, either.
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Date: 2011-04-30 01:56 pm (UTC)--but the truth is, I frequently hold back from writing tropes into f/f, and a big part of that is that there just isn't that much out there. Very often I'll latch onto a pairing and want to write it, but it would be the first or second fic for it, and I find myself fearing it might do the pairing a disservice if the first thing written about them is, say, plotless porn revolving around a cliché or a kink. Then add to that that if there isn't much of an audience for the pairing in the first place, you will cut it down by half by throwing a kink into the mix, and then I'm like, why bother, you know? Plus, again, when a pairing isn't established in fic, especially when it's a rare one or not well-supported by canon, I feel compelled to explain it, to set it up and build it up in fic, to sort of give it the base it deserves, and giving a rare pairing a base can take a lot of work that's just not really worth it if you're the only person who's going to enjoy the existence of that fic. So I don't write the base fic, and I don't write anything else, either.