I was going to say, what bad rap? Because surely fandom acknowledges that nothing is inherently good or bad, but writing makes it so. (Although I will grant that high school AUs are little more prone to bad writing than most. But they can also be good, and show me a fannish trope that isn't susceptible to the curse of bad writing.)
And then I saw an anti-HS AU post scroll past on my friends list.
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I was going to say, what bad rap? Because surely fandom acknowledges that nothing is inherently good or bad, but writing makes it so. (Although I will grant that high school AUs are little more prone to bad writing than most. But they can also be good, and show me a fannish trope that isn't susceptible to the curse of bad writing.)
And then I saw an anti-HS AU post scroll past on my friends list.
So, yeah, bad rap. *sad*