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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.
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.
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You had a rant against "fixit" stories? Or was it against character-bashing stories? Or was it against character-bashing fixit stories?
Must admit that it's partially because you and I share quite a few opinions about fic and fandom that I'm really intrigued to see the substance of your "rants".
I don't mind "fixit" fic - but a prefer it if it's done by way of an explanation why a certain character isn't really dead rather than them just popping up saying "Hey look! I'm not really dead after all!" And I'm generally not into character-bashing (although I do make exceptions for certain sanctimonious hypocritical Ascended Ancients - just as a rare example). IMHO expending hate on a fictional character is just a ludicrous waste of energy. I'll admit that I can't help being annoyed by some characters, but for the most part, I tend to just ignore characters that don't interest me. As for blaming the "replacement" for a character that you liked and lost... Well, I never really did, but I've even learned the folly of stopping watching the show after you lose your favourite character. I stopped watching Angel after Doyle died - and then had to borrowed umpteen videos to catch up with all the episodes I'd missed because I fell hard for the character of Wesley Wyndam-Pryce (and yeah, I actually wrote a "fixit" fic for the series finale because IMHO even if Wes did die that wasn't gonna stop him Fighting the Good Fight - and I think I did a little "character-retrieval" too actually... hmmm...)
Mind you, if they killed off Rodney, I'm pretty sure I'd lose interest in SGA... But let's not even consider that possibility. It's just to tragic to contemplate.