[ SECRET POST #3989 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3989 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Overrated fanfiction?

[kaijinscendre]

There was this series of fics from the MCU fandom that were hugely popular. I have no idea why because they were horribly written. I don't remember much about them except I think the title was something like, 'The Queer Avengers Do Stuff'.

Re: Overrated fanfiction?

[(Anonymous)]

I'm queer and that title is setting off my rage. Is it not bad enough that people IRL insist on defining queer people solely by our orientation. Do you HAVE to drag that bullshit into fandom so blatantly? My "straight girl who likes to fantasize about hawt gay guys" o meter is going off.

Re: Overrated fanfiction?

[kaijinscendre]

Yeah, it was such a weird story. I think I read like the first chapter. But from what I recall there was like...a lot of woobification of characters and emo stuff.

Re: Overrated fanfiction?

[(Anonymous)]

This is just my personal experience, but: my sense is that stuff doesn't come out of "straight-girl-fantasy"; my sense is that it mostly appeals to young people who are queer, or questioning their identities, and want to see fiction that's fundamentally about those topics.

Re: Overrated fanfiction?

[(Anonymous)]

This. There's certainly a strain of fic that rings very straight-girl-fantasy, but "the characters are queer and do things and did I mention they're queer" smacks a lot more of young or immature writers who are using fic as a way to explore their concept of identity in a relatively safe space.

That or trolls writing parodyfic because they're outraged by the existence of ~the SJWs~.

Re: Overrated fanfiction?

[soldatsasha]

Oh yeah I remember those! idr anyone ever actually reccing them anywhere, or saying they were good. But they had so many kudos and hits and shit.

I tried to read the first one and I gave up about halfway through iirc. So bad!

Re: Overrated fanfiction?

[kaijinscendre]

Yeah, they had an obscene amount of kudos. It was so confusing.

Re: Overrated fanfiction?

[soldatsasha]

idk I never found it confusing, just kind of predictable. There was a really popular Kingdom Hearts fanfic that followed basically the same formula.

Get super popular characters, and make all of them super duper gay. Pick the most popular pairings in the fandom, preferably. Doesn't matter how OOC they are. In fact, making them a parody of themselves is better. Stick them in situations the average reader would be familiar with (High School, coffee shop, domestic fluff in the Avengers tower). Maybe throw in some descriptions of the cool clothes they're always wearing. Make sure there's some low stakes drama, like a miscommunication. Instant fucking kudos.