[ SECRET POST #2041 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2041 ⌋

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Comments

[cashay]

This!

Also the OC hate frustrates me =/

OP here

[(Anonymous)]

Well, let me explain ... I see RSS telling me that there are 5 new stories in my not-very active fandom.

I go, and then find out that all FIVE are just someone's OC having sex/sugar high whatevs with one of their other OCs.

That's not fic for my fandom - that's essentially original fiction using the place names from the fandom universe. (it's ... engraving the serial numbers. :p)

If I'm in a fandom, wanting to read fic for that fandom, I'd actually like to see stories for the canon characters once in a while. Is that so much to ask?

Re: OP here

[cashay]

ah well in that case it seems like I misunderstood :)

To me it sounded like you were complaining about people putting their OC's in with canon characters. Which doesn't seem to be the case. While I think original fic should really get more exposure on AO3, tagging your basically original stuff with a certain fandom is kinda unfair.

So apologies for misunderstanding you =)

Re: OP here

[(Anonymous)]

wow

I would honestly email the admins/staff

even if they called me a mean whiny baby or whatever

[stainless]

Can't stand OC hate. Crafting a new character well is difficult. It always saddens me that people overlook any and all fic with OCs in it no matter what.

I've seen people marathon read almost all my fic and gush about how good it all is... but not touch the stuff with the OCs in it, because the mere fact I invented somebody of course means my talent went POOF and vanished or something and CLEARLY I had better stick to only writing about people other people invented first, because of reasons.

*sigh*

[(Anonymous)]

I don't like reading fics with OCs because they take effort on the part of the author to establish their backstory/their basic character while canon characters are already established to some or great degree. Because writers have to introduce OC and not the canon characters, OC is necessarily the focus of at least part of the fic. Like anon upthread, if I go to find fic, I'm looking for fic about the canon characters not original characters. Even in stories with peripheral OCs, the focus usually strays to OCs at some point in the story and that's why I tend to avoid them.

[thene]

Yeah this. I feel like a lot of the problem is that fic fandom tends to be obsessed with characters in a way that overrides the entire rest of a canon. If your canon has fascinating concepts, cultures, settings, myths, laws of physics or unintended implications and you write a loving and highly canon-relevant fic about those things, it's all magically Not Really Fic if you don't write about the canon characters? Wtf :(

[stainless]

Yeah, that exactly. It's the weirdest thing to me. I mean, I understand wanting more stories about the canon characters, I totally do. But the people who are wedded so tightly to canon don't make any sense to me. Why read fanfic at all if all you care about is what someone already created?