Fandom, Genre Fiction, and Slop

July 27, 2025

Last year I decided to myself to reduce reading web fictions and start reading more published stuff. Web fictions doesn’t necessarily mean web novels, to be clear, but also stuff like fan fiction, and the like. And I don’t limit what sort of published stuff I read: so long it’s published, I’ll read it.

Well, there’s one limit: it must follow fiction - nonfiction - fiction, and so on. And I generally avoid self-help; I don’t mind reading self-help, sometimes they can be enlightening, sort of lens of viewing human experience. But they tend to be a touch too self-contemplative to me.