[ SECRET POST #4892 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4892 ⌋

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Comments

[fscom]

05. https://i.imgur.com/sTeq6Iz.png

[(Anonymous)]

I'd expect most people want that self-indulgent fic. Myself included.

[philstar22]

If I hate a canon event, I prefer fix-its that pretend canon didn't happen or explicitly fix what happened and make it better. Sorry. Sometimes canon just is bad and needs to be fixed. That's exactly what fic is for.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, this. One of my canons did my favorite character dirty for no good reason so yeah, I want fix-it fic. I don't mind terrible things happening to characters if it serves a larger purpose in the overall narrative or as a catalyst for character development, but when it's just "ha ha let's have this awful thing happen to this character for no reason"?

No thanks, bring on the fix-it fic.

[(Anonymous)]

But taking stuff into account and explaining it and better integrating the event/character decision is still a fix-it fic, isn't it? Like, what's the consensus on what this means?

[(Anonymous)]

That's exactly what I was thinking. One of my fandoms has had a ton of fix-it fics lately, and there are only a few I've seen that pretend like what happened in canon didn't happen. In most of them, the events of canon still happened, it was just what happened afterward/how characters reacted to it that was different, and to me, that still counts as fix-it fic.

[(Anonymous)]

It's rather hard to write fic when one half of your ship is dead.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I have written fics that aren't fix-it, but there's only so many flavours of angst to explore. Since the story is canonically based around the two characters and their relationship, the ending in the canon was a literal dead end to the story itself.

I can understand the frustration if you're looking for fic that explores the canon angst and can only find fic where it never happened. I'm just saying sometimes sticking to the canon series of events limits the range of fanworks you can produce.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah mostly this. When I'm looking for "fix-it" it usually means "the characters you want to see are still alive."

[(Anonymous)]

Loving the picture choice, OP.

[(Anonymous)]

1. In the fandoms I’m in, the majority of fix-it fics do take canon into account. They acknowledge canon and then find a way to interpret it or spin it or add to it so that it sucks less is more to the author’s liking.

2. I like fix-it fics well enough, but I prefer when fic writers just ignore canon entirely, or spend a couple sentences hand-waving something away and leave it at that. Like, I don’t need 5K explaining how Tony Stark came back to life. Just tell me he came back, give me a general sense of how long he was dead for, and we’re good. I also don’t require a 100K fix-it for Steve bailing at the end of Endgame. I’d really prefer he just never did the thing in the first place.

But ymmv and that's cool.

[(Anonymous)]

I agree with #2.

The "explaining how Tony Stark came back to life" fics (or rather the equivalent in other fandoms, since I've never read MCU fic) usually aren't well-written since they're the kind of thing people bang out early on when the pain is still fresh.

In fic, I prefer that if the writer didn't like that an event occurred, either set the story wholly before that event, diverge from canon before that event so it never happened, or so the "just tell me he came back" thing and move on.

[(Anonymous)]

I agree with you, but at the same time, I really like my self-indulgent fix-it fics. Sometimes I just wanna skip past all the hard stuff and go straight to the fluff.

[(Anonymous)]

That's why the canon divergence related tags exist. If your fandom doesn't use it, encourage its use, I guess?

[(Anonymous)]

I've read both kinds (or at least the ones where the summary/story is interesting enough) so I'm up for more variety of fics.

[(Anonymous)]

YES THIS SO MUCH. Sometimes AU's can be interesting, but don't destroy characterization just to get what you want.

[(Anonymous)]

I am allergic to "it was all a dream/hallucination/trick by the villain" and will backbutton outta there so fast.

[(Anonymous)]

I feel like the reincarnation AU does a great service for both 'everybody lives' and 'oh god everybody died and got fucked up before they died'.

[(Anonymous)]

Some people find it hard to care about any form of alternate universe not in the current continuity of canon. I enjoy reincarnation AUs too for the most part (hell I'm writing one as mental rehab basically), but I feel like they're even further from what OP wants.