I'm not sure all the (would-be) woobifiers are in the purity camp; the woobie!Obi-Wan fics I mentioned definitely feature those themes. (Thinking of, like, the entire oeuvre of I_Gave_You_Fair_Warning on AO3, for example.)
I think it captures the particular tensions between different models of Doing Fandom very well rather than treating fandom as a monolith; I think it does this because it's aimed at fans, while works like Rowell's are intended for a more general audience that might have no familiarity with, say, LiveJournal or even Tumblr.
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Date: 2021-08-20 05:05 pm (UTC)I'm not sure all the (would-be) woobifiers are in the purity camp; the woobie!Obi-Wan fics I mentioned definitely feature those themes. (Thinking of, like, the entire oeuvre of I_Gave_You_Fair_Warning on AO3, for example.)
I think it captures the particular tensions between different models of Doing Fandom very well rather than treating fandom as a monolith; I think it does this because it's aimed at fans, while works like Rowell's are intended for a more general audience that might have no familiarity with, say, LiveJournal or even Tumblr.