[ SECRET POST #5888 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5888 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Same, and the reason at least for me is simple, OP. It's because in specificidentitylabel-fic, just like in realworldpolitics-fic or charactersarerandomlyrealworldreligious-fic, are invariably characters and plot are being used as vehicles to promote the author's thoughts on some issue, not a story being told because the author loves the characters in their own right.

It doesn't matter which side or angle the author takes and it doesn't matter whether or not I agree with the author's stances. Even if I 100% agree with what the author thinks, the fact that characters are just hollow mouthpieces for an author agenda, often a modern-day-specific agenda with terms that don't match the characters' original circumstances, world, or time period at all, makes the story itself invariably sub-par at best, because the priority and focus are not on character or story.

"But anon," you might protest. "There are plenty of stories that coincidentally show author stances that I wouldn't call specificidentitylabel-fic!" and I would reply that you are correct, but if you "wouldn't call it specificidentitylabel-fic" it's by definition outside the scope of what we are talking about. An story in which everyone is a pirate in warring factions with high seas drama in the age of sail and also one character happens to be what we in modern day would call nonbinary is probably not going to be referred to as "The Nonbinary Sam Fic" because that's not the focus at all, nor does the story revolve around that point. If it's egregious enough to be labeled a label-fic, it's already in its own category.

[(Anonymous)]

Totally agree with all of this: there's a big difference between 'fic about a character dealing with a thing that clearly aligns with specificidentitylabel' and 'fic about specificidentitylabel through the paper-thin guise of a character'.

I believe the term is "issuefic" (i.e., a fic that is more about a specific issue, identity, etc, than it is about anything else).

[(Anonymous)]

Well said!

[tabaqui]

You hit the nail on the head, Anon.

[(Anonymous)]

Fully agree with you

[(Anonymous)]

Well said, Anon.

[(Anonymous)]

Yes!
Great comment