I haven't yet seen any Katrina fanfic; I think a lot of people are still too shellshocked. While there are human beings to blame for some aspects of the disaster, ultimately this was a hurricane - unless you want to argue it was sent by God, there is no one to blame. 9/11 was a human-created tragedy and I think people needed to find ways of coming to terms with that. I think I saw the first 9/11 fics showing up the day after - mostly characters giving their opinions of the terrorists. Fic dealing with the actual reality - rescue fics, lost people fics and suchlike came later. I noticed people tended to use the more fantasy-based fandoms; there was a noticable number of Highlander fics, for example because the immortals would naturally be among the survivors.
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I haven't yet seen any Katrina fanfic; I think a lot of people are still too shellshocked. While there are human beings to blame for some aspects of the disaster, ultimately this was a hurricane - unless you want to argue it was sent by God, there is no one to blame. 9/11 was a human-created tragedy and I think people needed to find ways of coming to terms with that. I think I saw the first 9/11 fics showing up the day after - mostly characters giving their opinions of the terrorists. Fic dealing with the actual reality - rescue fics, lost people fics and suchlike came later. I noticed people tended to use the more fantasy-based fandoms; there was a noticable number of Highlander fics, for example because the immortals would naturally be among the survivors.