Also, to answer your question - What do you look for in fic, or in other fanworks?

- I guess internal consistency most of all, and psychological consistency. Crack that maintains the same tone throughout? Excellent. Characters who value the opposite of what the narrative says they value? Meh. And I want a work to have an idea about the characters or the canon, that it communicates to me. That sounds very cerebral but 'I think this would be hot' counts.

It's fascinating to me to hear you don't place high value on works that mimic a source's written style. I really do, and I aim for it when possible. But I also enjoy works that deliberately avoid that. I can find an otherwise competent and creative work offputting if someone is aiming for pastiche and (in my very subjective judgment) falling distinctly short.