Welcome to the Dark Side: Dark Fic, Why We Write and Read It

I wrote this piece back in 2002-ish for the Zendom mailing list website. It's no longer on their page, but I think this is still relevant - and especially relevant considering what's been going on in the Sherlock fandom.

Yin and yang, love and hate, peace and war, life and death, light and dark. Some believe (including myself) you can't have one without the other – in order to define light, you must have knowledge of the dark. And while fluffy / comedic stories have their place, they are also almost a requirement as an opposition to dark fic.

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