Feeling more balanced now

Um ... I kind of cleaned up the remnants of my little mini-meltdown this morning, just in case you were wondering why things have changed YET AGAIN. (And if you missed it, don't worry about it. It's gone now.)

I appreciate everyone who responded supportively, though.

Just to be clear on what I mean when I talk about a "fix" story (and confuse people who missed my various posts this morning EVEN MORE -- believe me, you didn't miss much) ... if you hated Ford leaving the team, can't stand Ronon, and therefore, write Season 2 & 3 era fics with Ford on the team ... that's a fix story. You don't explain or justify it, or consider your stories AU. You just write it as if it's always been that way, because in your head it *should* be that way. (I haven't really seen much of that sort of thing in SGA, but I have *definitely* seen it in SG-1 fic.) A "fix" story doesn't try to explain changes from canon; it simply ignores whatever inconvenient aspects of canon the author doesn't like.

So ... writing something you've always wanted to see in canon = not a fix; ignoring established canon to do so (and not explaining it, because it just "shouldn't be that way in the first place") *is* a "fix" -- to me. Most of the ones that I've seen are done out of hatred for some particular canon decision: killing off a character, failing to put together a couple that the fan thinks should be together, or putting them with the "wrong" people, introducing an unpopular character, etc.

I've always been bothered by such stories; not only do they tweak my internal out-of-canon sensor, but they seem disrespectful to the writers of the show. When I write, I always try as hard as possible to work within canon, or at least, if I do want to deviate in some way, to find a way to do that convincingly, within the boundaries of canon.

I don't mind if other people want to write "fix" type stories. That's their prerogative. But I don't think that I ever would, any more than I would ever write a character-bashing story. To me, it flies in the face of what fan fiction *ought* to be, which is a labor of love for canon.

That's all; carry on.

Feeling more balanced now

Um ... I kind of cleaned up the remnants of my little mini-meltdown this morning, just in case you were wondering why things have changed YET AGAIN. (And if you missed it, don't worry about it. It's gone now.)

I appreciate everyone who responded supportively, though.

Just to be clear on what I mean when I talk about a "fix" story (and confuse people who missed my various posts this morning EVEN MORE -- believe me, you didn't miss much) ... if you hated Ford leaving the team, can't stand Ronon, and therefore, write Season 2 & 3 era fics with Ford on the team ... that's a fix story. You don't explain or justify it, or consider your stories AU. You just write it as if it's always been that way, because in your head it *should* be that way. (I haven't really seen much of that sort of thing in SGA, but I have *definitely* seen it in SG-1 fic.) A "fix" story doesn't try to explain changes from canon; it simply ignores whatever inconvenient aspects of canon the author doesn't like.

So ... writing something you've always wanted to see in canon = not a fix; ignoring established canon to do so (and not explaining it, because it just "shouldn't be that way in the first place") *is* a "fix" -- to me. Most of the ones that I've seen are done out of hatred for some particular canon decision: killing off a character, failing to put together a couple that the fan thinks should be together, or putting them with the "wrong" people, introducing an unpopular character, etc.

I've always been bothered by such stories; not only do they tweak my internal out-of-canon sensor, but they seem disrespectful to the writers of the show. When I write, I always try as hard as possible to work within canon, or at least, if I do want to deviate in some way, to find a way to do that convincingly, within the boundaries of canon.

I don't mind if other people want to write "fix" type stories. That's their prerogative. But I don't think that I ever would, any more than I would ever write a character-bashing story. To me, it flies in the face of what fan fiction *ought* to be, which is a labor of love for canon.

That's all; carry on.