Yes, it struck me after I'd written that that there's probably only a particular type of writer that's drawn to remixes, as you said, not all writers. The more self-aware, "intellectual" type perhaps. Which I think is the type of writer that usually produce the edgier and more "difficult" kind of stories. Not that there isn't a broad spectra of remix writers and the kind of stories they write, but I really think that if you looked at popslash as a whole and compared it to the remixes the proportion of that kind of writer and story is much higher in the remixes.
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