I feel thoroughly educated. This was really very interesting to me since I haven't been in the fandom for very long. I first started watching Trigun a couple years ago, but didn't really seek out the fandom until last summer, and even then I was lurking most of the time.

Fic is slow in coming and shitty more often than it is good

I do get the impression that I missed the "Golden Age" of Trigun fic. All the fics I like seem to have been written at least two years ago. I never really thought I'd like fanfic. Before Trigun, the only "fandoms" I was involved in were music ones like Tori Amos and Radiohead, so "fanfic" wasn't a part of my vocabulary.

I was actually very lucky in that Interjacence was the first fic I read. All the crap out there and I decided to pick that one. Whew! I wasn't even a VM shipper before I read that, so I've only got you to blame. And I'm totally not saying that to kiss your ass...okay, maybe just a little ;)

And I agree that this fandom seems less divided and hostile than some, especialy in respect to het and yaoi. After coming out of the obsessive childish bickering that the Tori forumz had morphed into, LJ seemed to be some kind of bastien of maturity. Oh yeah, LJ's got its dumbasses, but I just pretend they don't exist....or make fun of them.