Detective Conan Fanfic Rants

[dreamingfifi]

So, over the past few months I've been wallowing in the Detective Conan fandom. It's kinda nice. It's not very active, but it's cozy. The fan theories are a ton of fun to read and come up with. The source material is excellent. It's a very long running fandom (since 1994!) so there is 20 years' worth of fanfiction, fanart, and AMVs.

So, I just spent the past few months reading hundreds of DC fanfics. I've gotten a pretty good sense of the trends and tropes, as well as some of the more annoying habits that sometimes border on bigotry and/or pedophilia... holy shit does this fandom have a darkside. It doesn't have the vast numbers that the Harry Potter fandom did to explain it; it comes from the canon itself, which lends itself to a particular type of darkside that.... that will have to be one of my rants.

This will be an index of sorts for my rants. Hopefully this will result in something useful for my new fandom. We'll see.

• Detective Conan's Darkside - Sometimes you set out to write a DC romance and end up writing childporn. Trigger Warning!
• Gender-Bending Characters - Sometimes you set out to add some diversity to this sausage-fest of a story and end up insulting all LGBT people.
• Religion in Detective Conan - Sometimes you set out to write Shinichi the Vampire, but forget he's also a Skeptic.
• Foreign Tongues in Fanfic - Sometimes you set out to immerse your readers in the setting and end up drowning them in Fan-Japanese.