I have started being sucked into NCIS fandom. Despite having only seen a dozen or so episodes (it's a procedural—not like there are major plot arcs I am unaware of), I have already discovered a few things:
- Though I am very OTP already (DiNozzo/Gibbs – bastards FTW!), the fandom has quite a few dominant pairings, far more variation than you find in most fandoms.
- Despite the fact that the show is a procedural, there is a ridiculous amount of Tony apologist fic. You know, the kind where Tony's underappreciated and cuts himself and everyone realizes how awful they've treated him and has to beg his forgiveness and he has so little self-worth that he doesn't believe anyone could love him… Really, fandom? Have you seen the show?
- I've now run across three fic that were over 100 pages long that started out with a major conflict/misunderstanding between Tony and Gibbs that was resolved with mutual declarations of love and shmoopiness less than halfway through. I can only conclude that the rest of the fic was them going on dates and making moony eyes at each other because I stopped reading. Don't people understand that once you've resolved the major conflict, the story is over?
I've found a few really excellent stories (mostly revolving around Tony having an unhealthy obsession with earning Gibbs's approval and Gibbs being completely uncommunicative) but far more fic of the bad variety. It's like Sentinel fandom all over again. Anyone want to rec me NCIS fic/writers/rec lists?
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