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Well, to be honest, I do actually tend to like the majority of the fanfic that I read ... which is limited to the output of relatively subtle authors like bantha_fodder, and in her case I only read the works "transformed" from canon in which I have an interest: Narnia, Dune.

I can't verify from recent personal experience that there's a giant ocean of substandard fanfic out there, I can only go from secondary sources on that one!

Life's short, why waste it on trash. Most of the original texts that become focal points of the fanfic community are sub-par anyway. Bad TV and book series. Probably it's partly because the ficcers see those texts as in more urgent need of being rescued by reconstruction, as was the original Trek ... and as wasn't the, y'know, James Joyces and Angela Carters of this world.