I think this would just come down to taste. Or even timing - if you happen to read two fics with similar premises in a very short space of time, suddenly that storyline feels repetitive, whereas someone else might find it fresh and different from what they've been seeing.
I had a conversation with someone the other day who was talking about how all SW fic was already boring and relying too heavily on stupid recycled tropes. When I asked what they'd want to see that would be exciting and new, their answer was more coffee shop AUs, which I find to be one of the most overused tropes in all fandom. So different strokes for different folks.
Pretty sure they're solely on Tumblr and AO3. But they also reblog every single one of those 'cute OTP AU ideas' posts, especially the ones that revolve specifically to coffee shops, so I think they just reeeeally like coffee shop AUs. I've never been into them personally, but that's probably because I've never been into the whole 'lets hang out for hours in a coffee shop' thing IRL. Which is probably a generational thing - when I was in my late teens/early 20s everyone hung out in pubs.
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Re: TFA fics versus other fandom fics
(Anonymous) 2016-01-31 12:14 am (UTC)(link)I had a conversation with someone the other day who was talking about how all SW fic was already boring and relying too heavily on stupid recycled tropes. When I asked what they'd want to see that would be exciting and new, their answer was more coffee shop AUs, which I find to be one of the most overused tropes in all fandom. So different strokes for different folks.
Re: TFA fics versus other fandom fics
(Anonymous) 2016-01-31 12:40 am (UTC)(link)Re: TFA fics versus other fandom fics
(Anonymous) 2016-01-31 12:48 am (UTC)(link)Pretty sure they're solely on Tumblr and AO3. But they also reblog every single one of those 'cute OTP AU ideas' posts, especially the ones that revolve specifically to coffee shops, so I think they just reeeeally like coffee shop AUs. I've never been into them personally, but that's probably because I've never been into the whole 'lets hang out for hours in a coffee shop' thing IRL. Which is probably a generational thing - when I was in my late teens/early 20s everyone hung out in pubs.