icarusancalion

This is really interesting. Just some things I thought of, on first reading - the evolution of fanon!John over the year? I've been thinking about this recently, and it seems to me that on reading fics that were written a couple of years ago and very popular of the time, like, say, astolat's Transcendental or Time in a Bottle, the way John's being written now has changed so much so that many of those older fics seem OC to me, now, although at the time they didn't. Is that because the way his character's been rounded out in canon (although I'm not sure it has at all) or just stories like cesperanza's MVP taking centre stage, where John's a lot more fucked up? I think generally speaking the fandom has taken a turn for the darker, actually. trinityofone's 'Human Vacillation' and 'Misery to Man', were more darker and sci-fi-y than the fandom was used to, as far as I could see. Also there was a period where fics which dealt in some way with DADT seemed to become quite big, like trinityofone's DADT, Damyata, Dayadhvam and amireal's Scenes from a Lesser War.

Hope that's helpful!