[ SECRET POST #2448 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2448 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 051 secrets from Secret Submission Post #350.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

"... how do you handle reading anything that isn't fanfiction?"

Because all of the characters in original fiction are canon characters in that piece of original fiction?

When I'm reading original fiction I don't have to worry about it turning into a wish fulfillment fic where some newbie writer hooks her self insert female OC up with her favorite male canon character and giving me horrible secondhand embarrassment and flashbacks to my own embarrassing teenage years. Is it really too much to ask that people lable their fic with Canon Character A/OC when other people lable their fics with Canon Character A/Canon Character B or Canon Character A/Canon Character C? What makes OC authors so special that they shouldn't have to list pairings the way other people do?

[(Anonymous)]

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[(Anonymous)]

Is it really too much to ask that people lable their fic with Canon Character A/OC when other people lable their fics with Canon Character A/Canon Character B or Canon Character A/Canon Character C?

They do, though? At least, all of the OC shipfic I can recall has stated that upfront in the pairings or summary or both. No doubt there are exceptions--there are always exceptions--but shipping tends to be srs bsns in fandom, and accordingly almost everyone labels their main pairings. Ditto fics in which the OC is a real driving force in the narrative.

What I have seen go untagged fairly often are fics in which 1) there's an OC outsider POV, 2) the story includes OC minor characters as friends, enemies, children, exes, etc., or 3) one or more of the minor pairings includes an OC. But, personally, I don't have the slightest problem with those fics not tagging for OCs; the focus is still very much on the canon characters, and adding a few OCs is often more worldbuilding than anything else.

(That third category might be part of what you're objecting to, I suppose, but until ff.net allows you to tag fic with more than four characters and/or AO3 allows you to tag major pairings and minor pairings separately, I think writers are more than justified in not tagging for a canon character/OC pairing that takes up two pages of a 10,000 word story, or whatever.)

[(Anonymous)]

The OP's secret makes it sound like they think wanting fanfic authors to mention OCs AT ALL is silly and entitled. That would include OC shipfic where pairing up an OC and a canon character is the very focus of the fic. Which is why I wonder what makes OC writers so special that OP thinks they shouldn't have to tag for that pairing the way people who write canon/canon pairings do.