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Struck by a random urge to read PoT fic, I clicked on an old one that a lot of people said is brilliant but I never read because I wasn't interested in the pairing.

................it's okay. It's fine. There's plot and characterisation and grammar. But the pace is slack and the build up quite weak and the plot not very exciting. And perhaps I have longer memory than others or actually read more carefully because I spotted repeated phrasings and descriptions which were not done intentionally to make a point, more like the author didn't have enough of a range of ways to talk about things. I wouldn't call the fic brilliant. Am I expecting too much? Or maybe that pairing - not a major one but not unpopular either - simply didn't have great authors so anything that's "fairly good" automatically is "amazing"?

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[celen.livejournal.com]

You know, I find that in the smaller fandoms: they don't have much people who write about it, and therefore every single fic, no matter how good or bad it is, is automatically amazing, just for the simple reason that it has been written at all. :/

But even in larger fandoms, and even with pairings that are hugely popular, there are authors who are popular and whose fics are praised by practically everybody, and then when I've decided to read them, I've just thought, "well, it was okay, but I can't see what all the fuss is about". Then again, some people do have really low standards when it comes to fics, and don't require much else than a cute plot (if it can even be called a plot) and their favourite pairing. >__>