Weirdly, I think that fandom may have missed the trope fest that this film was! And, to be fair, I have missed Footloose, so I think that it's entirely possible for me to have been missing references to that film in fic for... basically my entire life. (Footloose predates me.)
(and here's where I get indulgent with my curiosity - bear with me!)
I did some Fandom Science, aka, I played with the filters on AO3, and it looks like there are only about 5 fic that use the tag "Speed (1994)" without using the main canon pairing "Anne Porter/Jack Traven" - https://bit.ly/2X1HtsR (a couple seem to be using the Speed characters but not tagged correctly)
So, 5 fic is still not nothing, and I'm going to bet that only the most faithful of tropey adaptations actually bothered to tag for Speed as a source. Footloose (1984) has 13 fic on AO3 (including the source material's characters) so, yeah, maybe there are lots of untagged tropey fic out there that are just relying on us to pick up the themes without tagging.
I suspect I have just missed the boat for the fandom on this movie - it is from 1994, so it predates Livejournal, as well as AO3, so it's entirely possible that the majority of the fandom for this fic was IRL or mailing lists or zines.
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Date: 2019-06-12 01:17 pm (UTC)(and here's where I get indulgent with my curiosity - bear with me!)
I did some Fandom Science, aka, I played with the filters on AO3, and it looks like there are only about 5 fic that use the tag "Speed (1994)" without using the main canon pairing "Anne Porter/Jack Traven" - https://bit.ly/2X1HtsR (a couple seem to be using the Speed characters but not tagged correctly)
So, 5 fic is still not nothing, and I'm going to bet that only the most faithful of tropey adaptations actually bothered to tag for Speed as a source. Footloose (1984) has 13 fic on AO3 (including the source material's characters) so, yeah, maybe there are lots of untagged tropey fic out there that are just relying on us to pick up the themes without tagging.
I suspect I have just missed the boat for the fandom on this movie - it is from 1994, so it predates Livejournal, as well as AO3, so it's entirely possible that the majority of the fandom for this fic was IRL or mailing lists or zines.