[ SECRET POST #4462 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4462 ⌋

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Comments

[fscom]

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[type_wild]

Isn't it amazing that fix-it-fic has a legit patron saint?

That said, the only times I can remember being legitimately upset about something happening in canon, it's all been for ship-related reasons. If endings make me sad, it's always been in ways that make sense.

Unless you count things like Tsubasa Chronicles and xxxHolic, but in both of those cases the stories had gone beyond ridiculous and made me start ignoring canon at way earlier points.

[(Anonymous)]

Urgh, TRC and xxxHolic both started good and then got amazing over time and THEN they just fizzled out in an explosion of nonsense. Makes me mad just thinking about it.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't even know what happened with Tsubasa and xxxHolic. There was just so much fuckery all around that I can't even pinpoint where it started to fall apart.

[(Anonymous)]

I liked how xxxHolic went, but my gosh if anything needs a fix-it it's TRC. And it would be so easy to fix too! (The clones are Watanuki's parents but not R!Syaoran's coz that was just weird, the clones don't suddenly disappear when FWR does for unnecessary angst, the clones get cursed with having to keep moving but the two reals stay behind, the whole Clow country R!Sakura dying etc I leave to others).

[(Anonymous)]

Same. I can read "What happens inbetween scenes/episodes/books/movies" fanfics, as long as they truly fit in there but fix-it fics? Not really. Especially when canon is REALLY set in stone aka when my fav or one part of my ship is dead or confirmed to have been married to someone else for 50 years in the epilogue or some such.

[(Anonymous)]

I agree. It particularly annoys me when I'm not especially upset over the canon in the first place, but a large percentage of the fic is suddenly about "fixing" a character death or undoing some other change.

There appear to be two different ways people use the term "fix-it fic," though. There's A) "I'm disappointed that my ship didn't get together in canon but since they aren't sunk, either, I'm going to write a continuation/epilogue where they get together," and then there's B) I hated the whole second half of the season so I'm going to write a fic where ~*it was all a dream*~ or a trick or a lie and every litte thing I ever wanted to be canon now happens instead." I'm totally cool with the former but avoid the latter.

[silverr]

This seems entirely reasonable to me.

[sparklywalls]

I don't mind fix-it fic but generally don't read it because of the fact I know it'll probably never happen in canon (especially in the case of character death.) Also it really makes me sad rather than elated when it feels like a fanfic writer put more thought into it than the canon writers did. It's a bit like a consolation prize by that point.

[(Anonymous)]

D'awww I forgot how cute Felix is.

[nightscale]

I'm a little like this I think, like even if I wanted something to be different I can't ignore the canon I've seen, but I also don't usually get so annoyed at a canon that I need it to be fixed. Most of the time I'm good with what I got.

There are exceptions but they're very few.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm the same way, what's canon is canon and I can't erase my memory of it so it's just stuck there.

[tabaqui]

That's too bad, Anon. I love a well-thought out 'fix it' that patches plot holes, ignores ridiculous continuity bullshite, and makes more plausible reasons for things that made no sense in canon.

And that also ignores utterly stupid plot 'twists' and information that had no base, no build-up, and barely any follow-through (I'm looking, for instance, at you, Clint's sekrit!! family on the farm!).

[greghousesgf]

this, except I don't know who Clint is

[tabaqui]

Clint/Hawkeye from Marvel. Guy with a bow.

[(Anonymous)]

Still not over MCU!Clint Barton. I weep for what could have been.

[tabaqui]

OMG, right? Jayzus.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeahhhh. I like fix-its, but then after the satisfaction of a well done fix-it fic comes the anger/depression at the fuckery what is canon. So I get it.

[(Anonymous)]

I used to feel this way. Then one day I realized *all fiction is equally fictitious.* And since then I have bee able to embrace fix it's with both arms.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, I used to be this way. Canon was canon, period. Canon was the story. I felt like, if I didn't accept canon and stick with canon, then what was I even a fan of?

Then, at some point, the way I thought about fiction changed. Like the anon above me said, I realized that all fiction is equally fictitious. So, like, what makes canon inherently more meaningful than a fic author's version of the story? And I realized that, for me, it's not inherently more meaningful. Canon is just one version of the story.

Canon is just the kernel from which the story and characters I'm a fan of grow. There are so many existing iterations of the story and the character, and so many more possible iterations, and I love the story and the characters all the more for existing so multi-dimensionally.

I accept that this isn't how everyone does fandom, and I respect that. But man I love being fannish this way, and I'm never going back.

[(Anonymous)]

i can enjoy reading some fixit fic but it'll never get me over the canon fact that naomi is dead, dammit

related: i'm kinda done with the fandom trend (that pervades around every fandom ever) that canon events that appeared to be bad writing can be completely disregarded even as canon. it happened. it sucks. deal with it

[(Anonymous)]

I often find fix-it fic to be badly written, honestly. It feels like "Here is something I quickly banged out right after that changes what I didn't like in the easiest and clumsiest way possible" rather than an interesting, well-constructed alternate story. I get that people frequently write fix-its like that to work through their emotions, but I'm going to have a hard time being comforted/satisfied by a fix-it fic if it sucks and everyone is OOC. Because of that, I generally steer away from attempts to undo cannon unless it's of the "Diverge from a much earlier point" variety.