Originally Posted by
Ratman
Pastebin, to be completely honest. Pretty much everybody I talk to about the stuff go to FF.net, sufficientvelocity and spacebattles commonly though, so they link me something sometimes and it pretty much always staggeringly sucks.
It's supposed to be imageboards for me, or was a few years ago, /tg/ in particular, but even topical original content is a topic of contention these days 'cause people don't like things that are different.
BL's not bad, I've read a whole bunch of good stuff here.
That's because late TM is not very inspiring. Like with any pop culture, the two reasons why fanfics happen are for attention/brownies, and driven by inspiration. A social hive like spacebattles will inevitably have ten thousand people starting their shitty holy grail war quest with rider hitler and archer einstein baiting clicks, while having absolutely no knowledge of the source material. That's just being an entertainer - which you can still be a master of, of course - but it's something completely different from a writer noticing something weird about the work and wanting to explore whatever implications this bit has in a transformative work of their own. For a basic bitch example, Star Wars sequels are an example of the former, Heir to the Empire is the latter.
TM isn't doing as bad as we make it sound, and the culture here is basically still tight. It's not retroactively ruining itself or anything, it's just being kind of lame recently. The writers wait for bones to be thrown since the entire skeleton we have has been gnawed on to death.