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[American Horror Story]

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[Beverly Hills, 90210]

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[Homeland]

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[Skins]

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[Signs]

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[Downton Abbey]

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[Epic Rap Battles of History]

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[Mass Effect]

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[orange is the new black]

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[The Swapper]

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[Rune Factory 4]

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[Skyrim]

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First-person narrative. It's usually so bad and even if it isn't I get so helplessly embarrassed.

Unless the fic was directly recced to me and then I wince, suck it up and give it a chance.

Not to start that wank again or anything.

Oh, god. I back away from first-person narrative so quickly that I completely forgot it was a thing.

I usually avoid first person narrative in fic but I read one that was so good, so in character, it changed my feelings about it completely.

Even when the writing is good and the story is compelling I'm just so turned off by the style it's something I'm suffering through.

Yeah, I don't hate first person pov because when it's done well, it can be very good. I usually give them a chance before I back button.

Do you have a link for the fic? I'm curious.

Sure.

http://archiveofourown.org/works/195226
Little Sister by Martha

I have only read one, First Person narrative that I liked. One.

I think first person narrative has the potential to be very very bad. But I don't get the inherent criticism it has among writers/readers. I think there's a lot that can only be told with a first person narrator - it just has to be done right.

That being said, I think it's harder to do for fanfiction than original fiction. With fanfiction, every single sentence must then be judged IC or not.

I'm really not keen on 1st POV, canon or fanfic. It's just toooo....toooidk, trying to make you be them and I personally don't like that

I think maybe it feels too much like transparent wish fulfillment fantasizing which gives me so much squicky vicarious embarrassment that even when it isn't I can't get past the association.

But what if the actual canon work IS written in first person?

Yeah I have a hard time with first person in canon too. The only kind of exceptions to my aversion is something that really draws me in and usually only autobiographies, plots that make great use of an unreliable narrators, narrators from cultures/eras (not forward in time though) not my own, or when it's addressed to the audiences and still even then I have squirmy moments.

Eta: maybe it has something to do with reminding me there is an actual person author behind the book and makes it harder for me to immerse in the world without analyzing the author?

OT: I can't remember what that horrible choose your own adventure reader's perspective thing is called but I hate that so much more.

Edited 2013-11-08 02:20 (UTC)

IA with hating 1st person...except in Sherlock Holmes fic ;) And other examples where the canon work is written in the 1st person.

I find 1st person POV only works when the character is more on the stoic end of things, because then it's less stream of consciousness and more 3rd person plus bits of perspective you don't normally see. I read a good fic that was from the perspective of mirror verse!Spock, for example.

In general, though, I agree with you--given all the fanfiction out there, I usually don't waste my time on 1st person fics.

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