[ SECRET POST #3773 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3773 ⌋

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[Notorious, Megan and Julia]


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[David Tennant in Broadchurch]


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[Paul Hollywood and Noel Fielding, Great British Bake Off]


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[The Americans]


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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

The wish fulfillment/fantasy part of character/reader fics isn't the part bothers me. I wrote stories about myself with characters I crushed on when I was younger, after all, so this is no different and a bit of harmless fantasy is no biggie.

For me, it's more just mainly the fact that, from the couple fics of that sort I have looked at, the reader description will either have to be so vague because they're trying to make it where anyone can insert themselves, which kind of detracts from the story, I think, or they've got just enough specific details for the reader character to where I wonder why the author doesn't just turn them into a proper OC*. And then the (Y/N) aspect throws me out of the story, too. It's just jarring.

*(But then, of course, if the author did that, they'd get flak from people who don't like canon character/OC stories, too, so... Can't win either way, it seems.)

And on a general level, I think one reason those kinds of stories bother some people so much is because the canon already has so many characters one can use to write about/ship a character with/whatever, and they might be rather frustrated that some fans are ignoring exploring those characters and possible dynamics (platonic and non-platonic) in favor of some vague reader-insert.

That said, however, even though those kinds of fics aren't my thing in general, I'm not going to get bent out of shape if people write them. I just simply scroll past them and move on. And since AO3 has a way to filter out the types of stories you (general "you") don't like, then people who really can't stand those kinds of fics can just use that. Should solve the problem, I'd think.

And if anyone does have any examples of good character/reader fics, feel free to share them :). Always good to be reminded that any type of fic can work in the right hands.

[(Anonymous)]

:)

I hope one day a very long multi chartered choose your own adventure AU Self insert/ OC story I will write will make the list of good character/reader fics.