[ SECRET POST #3257 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3257 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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03. [SPOILERS for Downton Abbey Season 6]



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04. [SPOILERS for Mockingjay Part 2]



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05. [SPOILERS for Undertale]



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06. [WARNING for rape]



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07. [WARNING for rape]



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08. [WARNING for child abuse]

[King Lear]


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09. [WARNING for abuse]

[Tales From the Borderlands]


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10. [WARNING for abuse, PTSD]

[Jessica Jones]









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Comments

rageprufrock

[(Anonymous)]

Used to be my favorite fan author. I would read any story she wrote regardless of fandom, so I ended reading quite a few things for canons I wasn't familiar with. I always thought those stories were great.

After a lengthy break from fandom, I came back and attempted to read a new story she'd written for a fandom I was actually in -- and realized that her writing is actually super OOC. She has a strong writer's voice that I still enjoy, but I'm better off reading her fics for fandoms I don't recognize.

Re: rageprufrock

[(Anonymous)]

I had the same issue with a different author, and for me the trigger was their AtLA Zutara fics. Once I had actually watched the show, I reread the fics and.... They were awful. :(

Re: rageprufrock

[(Anonymous)]

But do you still like Zutara though?

Re: rageprufrock

[(Anonymous)]

Honestly? No.

But, even if I did, I don't think I would have liked the fic, because it wasn't really "Zutara" it was "fannon-Draco-Malfoy/Loki-in-Zuko-skin"/Katara. All haughty glances and noble carriage, and nothing of the dorky hot-headed character I had grown to appreciate in the show.

Re: rageprufrock

[(Anonymous)]

Ah, yes, one of those.

Re: rageprufrock

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, pretty much.

Re: rageprufrock

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, she writes original fic pretty much all the time.

Re: rageprufrock

[(Anonymous)]

I have the same problem with her. I like her AUs well enough because the OOcness isn't as charring, but can't get into her canon fics.

I honestly think that a lot of BNFs have this problem; their own writer's voice overshadows the characters' voices.

Re: rageprufrock

[(Anonymous)]

I can't speak for this particular author, 'cause I've never read their stuff (I don't think they're in a fandom I follow), but your last sentence there kinda makes me glad I'm not a BNF :p.

Seriously, if I'm writing a story and the readers feel my voice is overshadowing that of the characters, I REALLY want them to tell me. I always consider it the highest compliment if a reader tells me my characterization was spot on in a story.

Re: rageprufrock

[(Anonymous)]

I don't necessarily think one fic for one fandom means an author's entire fic catalog is OOC. I've never considered rageprufrock one of my favorite authors, but her fic The Least Of All Possible Mistakes is one of my favorite fics in the Sherlock fandom (and I've read around 2500 fics in that fandom). I thought her characterizations in that fic where pretty awesome. She also wrote another fic with really strong characterization for the Sherlock fandom.

So maybe she's just not as good at writing in character for one fandom as she is in some others?

Or maybe it's a subjectivity issue. Perhaps if I were to read the fic you find OOC, I would find it in character. How we perceive characterization is a pretty subjective thing.

But the most likely one of all is that rageprufrock was being deliberately OOC - i.e. going with a headcanon/fanon interpretation of the characters rather than a strictly canon interpretation.

Re: rageprufrock

[(Anonymous)]

So maybe she's just not as good at writing in character for one fandom as she is in some others?

It's probably this. rageprufrock is all about the witty snark, in both narration and dialogue, and it's great to read which is why I've followed her for almost a decade now. Sherlock, afaik, has a lot of snarky bantering between the leads, so it plays well into her writer's voice. But other characters in other canons aren't like that, or at least aren't like that to the extent that they seem to be in her fics. So it becomes very obvious after awhile that this is the author talking to the reader, not the character.

Re: rageprufrock

[(Anonymous)]

The only thing I know about rageprufrock is that she was once featured at FandomWank for a ridiculous, over-the-top reaction to people discussing her fic without her permission.

As I remember it, some people in the Stargate fandom had set up a sort of book club, only with fanfic, where they would discuss a big novel-length fic every couple of weeks. One of rageprufrock's fics was a selection...and she made a big stink because it was done without her permission and critical comments were made and she felt ~violated.