What fandom says it wants vs. what fandom actually wants

[transemacabre]

What people in fandom say they want to read:
-- IC, slow burn, realistic romance with world-building and canon details, totaling many thousands of words
-- Female and non-white main characters
-- Femslash

What people in fandom ACTUALLY want to read, judging by hits and comments:
-- Any Two Guys/whitecock explicit PWP under 1k
-- AUs set in bakeries/coffee shops with fantastical canon elements replaced by the mundane
-- Not femslash

Comments

[silverwhistle.livejournal.com]

Yes, depressing, isn't it?
Well, I can safely say, I don't write what people want to read. No explicit sex, no mundane present-day AUs (why gratuitously remove characters from their setting?!), and my current story is going to include an inter-racial (Elf/Orc) femslash subplot.