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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2020-07-02 07:18 pm

[ SECRET POST #4927 ]


⌈ Secret Post #4927 ⌋

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(Anonymous) 2020-07-03 12:21 am (UTC)(link)
I didn't ask for a link. Just describe a story in more detail. Context matters. Failing can be interesting because always succeeding can easily come across as Mary Sue-esque. Supernatural even lampshaded it in an episode this season.

(Anonymous) 2020-07-03 12:31 am (UTC)(link)
Okay, so, an example of the latter was a MCU fic where female Tony Stark ends up being mindcontrolled by Loki (the bit in the first Avengers movie where Loki fails to use the staff on Tony succeeds here), and she kills Jarvis and I think a few other people. I don't know what happened next because I stopped reading there.

Another example of a genderflip that failed utterly was a Hunger Games fic that - according to the summary - was about male!Katniss and female!Peeta. Except it also swapped their backstories, and male Katniss's name was Peeta and female Peeta's name was Katniss and it was just such a confusing mess that I had to wonder why the author had even bothered because it was almost identical to the original. Again, I don't know if it improved because I quit one chapter in.

Mostly it's hard to describe perfect examples of the first complaint because, well, they're very boring. What's the point of a fic that just repeats canon with one person's pronouns changed?