Whatever happened to...

[kangeiko]

I've had little to do but think for the past few days (well, other than sleep, or contemplating the bathroom tiles, of course), and it suddenly occured to me that entire genres of fic had come and gone and - well - they aren't around anymore!

So. I bet that there are more 'fan history'-savvy people out there who can help me out. Anyone know what happened to the following types of fic?

1. Author!fic: Not a Mary Sue, but a direct authorial insertion, where the author directly meddles in the 'verse. Could be that the author retains authorial powers, or that she is a victim of outside meddling (e.g. Babylon 5's Infinite Regress universe).

2. 'Get 'em!' fic: not merely dark!fic, or death!fic, but a type of fic that positively revelled in throwing everything including the kitchen sink at our belovee characters and watching them drop like flies. More like death and destruction as an entertainment form, rather than aspiring for any particular artistic achievements.

Help the curious?

(And, of course, if any other genres have disappeared off the face of the earth, tell me, for I am nosy. Yes.)

Comments

[executrix.livejournal.com]

I think that a "Get 'Em" fic is the overall generic title for what is known in Blakes7 as "BUARA": "Beat Up and Rape Avon." I don't watch or read Supernatural but I kind of get the feeling that Get 'Em fics are not unknown there.

[kangeiko]

Not just one character, though (although that's what it seems to have morphed into recently). I guess that it could be best described as apocalypse!fic, except that everyone dies, and they die missing bits of themselves, and there are also man-eating tigers, and one of them is a traitor, and most of them get raped, and then the universe starts to explode.

*thinks* I had one in the draft stages that I never finished, which was basically a serial killer loose in Sunnydale, slowly picking off the Scoobies one by one. It was a gore-fest, basically, and then it turned out to be one of the Scoobies (either Oz, or an insane!Janna Calderash-possessed Giles). In retrospect, I'm quite pleased that I didn't finish it.

The X-men fandom used to have quite a few fics like this - one in particular I lost a while back and have been searching for, chronicled the fall of the X-Men (and their deaths, one by one), followed by Magneto & his group, and it basically had Gambit as the only survivor, but bound in a way that was worse than death. He was talking to a young mutant - Shackle? Shard? Something like that - and the world was continuing to fall apart.