drusillas_rain

Right, and fanfic is simultaneously more constrained (since it's within the 'verse of a particular text) and less constrained (because there's really no censorship in fandom, just our self-policed warning culture). Because I like Fandom X, I can usually be reasonably sure that fic for that fandom is something I'll like...unless I'm warned off it. (Same logic applies to characters/pairing tags, I guess.) Whereas just because I like Genre Y, it doesn't follow that I'll like everything that's in Genre Y, so there's not the assumption that I'm going to read everything unless warned away from it. This is similar to how television is often characterized: there's this assumption that the TV is just on, and viewers are passively consuming whatever's broadcast, and so we have to be very careful with what we allow on the air (especially in times where children might possibly see, omg.)