[ SECRET POST #3763 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3763 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Because the fic/headcanon is just a platform to talk about the thing and not an actual story/exploration of a character and how that thing might affect/fit into their life and what they do in canon.

I once read a fic that presented a character as trans and it wasn't tagged as such and the reveal (to the reader, not other characters) part way through was a complete surprise to me. It was a great fic, though (not being trans, I can't make a statement as to how representational it is). It's never been my headcanon but I liked the exploration of it.

On the other side of the coin, I once started reading a fic where all the main characters had complex gender identities and/or sexual orientations/relationship preferences and the thing was shaping up to be nothing but the characters explaining their genders/orientations to each other and getting on soap boxes to lecture about what their labels mean and everyone was way OOC. Completely different animal. I backbuttoned outta that one so fast...

[(Anonymous)]

I would backbutton out of the first example as well, just for the fact that these "surprise trans" fics tend to be authors trying to force it down people's throats how very progressive they are, as in "see, I tricked you into reading trans fic and you didn't notice until I told you!".

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT said that it was a story they were already enjoying though. I think that should be the deciding factor in all cases, whether or not the fic is any good.

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ayrt

It wasn't like that, and it was on LJ not AO3 so tagging wasn't really a thing, anyway.