High Fic vs. Low Fic
Another thing I’ve noticed about the VOY section of the ASC Awards this year is the prevalence of humor far beyond the humor category. Anywhere Liz goes, humor follows, and the Die Seven Die category only compounded the giggling.
Humor is fine in its place, but it’s hardly High Fic. Here’s my personal ranking of fanfic genres, plus annotations of what most sane people would change about it. The order is high fic to low fic.
- Adventure
- Filk (most people would call it low fic)
- Romance
- Character stories
- Humor
- Vignettes
- Drabbles
- Angst (most people would call this high fic)
- Haiku
- Slash
- Smut
- Real people fic
I’m not sure which order slash and smut should be in - I put slash first because the writers seem to think they’re saying something more than smut alone would say, if it said anything at all.