*ack* Laptop was still logged in on the room-mate's account. Sorry for the re-post.
I'm more than willing to admit I may have over-reacted. ;)
Though later I was giving this question some thought, as I was having another conversation with an old chum from HP fandom, about the vast cultural differences between HP and Sherlock fandoms.
It seems to me that Sherlock fans are a lot less likely to be willing to invest the time in a long fic/series; in this fandom 20,000 words is considered a novel and in HP a medium-sized fic. I think a lot of people are turned off by the presence of OCs (that's true of most fanfic readers in any fandom), regardless of how well AJHall writes them. And I think the crossover elements make people hesitate to plunge into a fic; I know I usually won't read a fic if it's a crossover and either I'm unfamiliar with the other source material, or it's something I am familiar with and don't like, regardless of how those elements are used.
The only reason I was willing to take on Queen of Gondal was because of the author (for whom I once was willing to take on hundreds of thousands of words of Draco/Neville for heaven's sake). So yes, lots of little triggers keeping people away from this wonderful series. And all those things make it unconventional for Sherlock fic, and those conventions exist for a reason.
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I'm more than willing to admit I may have over-reacted. ;)
Though later I was giving this question some thought, as I was having another conversation with an old chum from HP fandom, about the vast cultural differences between HP and Sherlock fandoms.
It seems to me that Sherlock fans are a lot less likely to be willing to invest the time in a long fic/series; in this fandom 20,000 words is considered a novel and in HP a medium-sized fic. I think a lot of people are turned off by the presence of OCs (that's true of most fanfic readers in any fandom), regardless of how well AJHall writes them. And I think the crossover elements make people hesitate to plunge into a fic; I know I usually won't read a fic if it's a crossover and either I'm unfamiliar with the other source material, or it's something I am familiar with and don't like, regardless of how those elements are used.
The only reason I was willing to take on Queen of Gondal was because of the author (for whom I once was willing to take on hundreds of thousands of words of Draco/Neville for heaven's sake). So yes, lots of little triggers keeping people away from this wonderful series. And all those things make it unconventional for Sherlock fic, and those conventions exist for a reason.