[ SECRET POST #4217 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4217 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I'm not even in the Marvel fandom but no. People are under no obligation to include characters they don't want to include. I'd much rather a female character that I liked wasn't in a fic than to have her shoehorned in to either be bashed or written badly when it's clear the writer only wants to write m/m. Let people write what they want. If I don't like it, I'll find something else that has the things I do like in it or write it myself. No one needs to add women if that's not the story they want to tell. It's not 'erasing' her. She's still there in canon.

[(Anonymous)]

But is it shoehorning if she's canonically this character's guardian and a big part of his life? Surely there's ways to include both the existing family (which is literally the two of them) and the m/m ship.

NAYRT

[(Anonymous)]

It could be (a little bit) if she's not actually relevant to the plot, the situation, the story that's being told.

And... to be honest, I think a lot of fanfic is going to fall into that story? It's not really surprising to me that a lot of fic writers wouldn't want to write about Aunt May. Not just because of slash writers erasing women.

Re: NAYRT

[(Anonymous)]

It's not like Uncle Ben's particularly popular either.

[(Anonymous)]

It is shoehorning if the story you want to tell is Steve and Tony raising Peter as their own kid. The fact that she's his guardian is important to canon but there is no reason that it has to be important to the story the fanfiction writer wants to tell. That's why I say a definitive no on this.

Same with romances. Usually, a romance is a very important part of a character's canon life but I'm more than happy to ignore that to ship the characters I like. Something being important in canon has no bearing on whether it needs to be in fic.