I even encounter that strong predilection for RPF in slash challenges, or slash-friendly challenges, that I enter. I'm not trying to dis RPF, but it's so weird that it seems to have taken over, in terms of popularity, for SPN fic. I mostly can't read RPF; sometimes I try if it's an interesting sort of AU. Trying to branch out, a week or two ago I read a rather poorly written J2 fic. It didn't even have much porn in it. It was a couple of weeks old, if I recall correctly... and closing in on 150 comments. 150! What SPN fic, no matter how brilliant, ever gets that many? It just really irritated me... not that I don't want RPF writers to get the praise, just... ugh. STOP TALKING, SC. ;-)

ETA: I love gen, too; all my favorite writers are gen-focused. <3 Fight the good fight! I'll be reading it.