No, you're right - I've seen only a few fanfics where the writer says she's been inspired by a song and has perhaps used its title but I can't recall coming across any actual songfics in the English fanfic sense of the term.
I think mpreg isn't popular in JFandom because there's not the same stigma attached to turning the characters into girls as there is in WFandom. So they just turn them into girls and then impregnate them. :P
Hmm, another big difference is the almost non-existence of crossovers. In fact, when I accidently stumbled across an Initial D/TeniPuri Keisuka/Ryouma crossover a while back I keeled over in shock - not just because of the WTF pairing but the fact that there existed a crossover at all. It was the first one I'd come across in my 2-3 years of Japanese fanfic reading. O_O
No fiction archives either, which is an aspect of WFandom (particularly slash fandom which is where I originally came from) I kinda miss...But the amazingly detailed search engines make up for it. And the lack of WFandom style meta. You get plenty of character/plot thoughts and analysis but those happen on individual sites/diaries rather than as a fandom-wide participation thing. (Personally, I like the lack of vitriolic fandom bitching and suspect it's probably a cultural difference in discourse.)
Nowadays I prefer hanging around JFandom...it's both saner and more insane than WFandom. *grin*
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Date: 2005-02-21 07:50 am (UTC)I think mpreg isn't popular in JFandom because there's not the same stigma attached to turning the characters into girls as there is in WFandom. So they just turn them into girls and then impregnate them. :P
Hmm, another big difference is the almost non-existence of crossovers. In fact, when I accidently stumbled across an Initial D/TeniPuri Keisuka/Ryouma crossover a while back I keeled over in shock - not just because of the WTF pairing but the fact that there existed a crossover at all. It was the first one I'd come across in my 2-3 years of Japanese fanfic reading. O_O
No fiction archives either, which is an aspect of WFandom (particularly slash fandom which is where I originally came from) I kinda miss...But the amazingly detailed search engines make up for it.
And the lack of WFandom style meta. You get plenty of character/plot thoughts and analysis but those happen on individual sites/diaries rather than as a fandom-wide participation thing. (Personally, I like the lack of vitriolic fandom bitching and suspect it's probably a cultural difference in discourse.)
Nowadays I prefer hanging around JFandom...it's both saner and more insane than WFandom. *grin*