Honestly it's making it a lot less fun for me to write fic these days. I started 20-25 years ago before all these set tropes and AUs got established/imported from romance profic, and while of course explicit HEA OTP fic got the most attention it felt like there was still space for other kinds. Now there's so much out there, a lot of people just want the happy fun OTP stuff and nothing else.
Re: Losing Yuletide
Honestly it's making it a lot less fun for me to write fic these days. I started 20-25 years ago before all these set tropes and AUs got established/imported from romance profic, and while of course explicit HEA OTP fic got the most attention it felt like there was still space for other kinds. Now there's so much out there, a lot of people just want the happy fun OTP stuff and nothing else.