An Appeal On Behalf Of Serious Writing (or not)

Back when I started writing fanfic, I mostly tried to write serious stuff. Granted, they usually had a comedic or satirical edge, but they were serious stories. The End of The World, for instance, is relatively grim.

But of late, I seem to have got bored of being serious. My two latest works have been... well, I'd say "exceedingly silly", but that might be something of an understatement. Hollywood Or What? has Ginny kidnapped by a Death Eater who botches a spell, so Harry has to chase them through a bunch of films - it gets very silly. The Death Eater, as Darth Vader, accidentally chops a Stormtrooper in half...

And then there's A Treatise On The Perils Of Excessive Involvement In The Reading Of Fiction, a crossover-themed challenge fic where the silliness is perhaps best illustrated by this simile:

"the shadow attached itself to his foot with a sound much like that of a blue cheese omelette wrapped in a custard wig hitting a lightly annoyed bonobo monkey; it is perhaps not surprising that neither Ginny nor Harry recognised the sound."

It's a very silly fic. But then, perhaps there's nothing really wrong with that. Perhaps, comedy is more important than profundity. (Come on, this is me talking - is there really any doubt which side I'll come down on?)

Or, just perhaps, I'm just plugging my fics because I think they're funny. And I really like good, reasoned reviews...