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butterflydreaming Every fandom I've been in has been so different in terms of what fanfic is common. It's wild. Mary Sue/author self insert (everywhere in the 00s) has a sibling in character X reader, a style told in 2nd person, typically with Y/N used (Your Name) in the body of story. It's not my go-to, but I recently read some in support of the writer.
There's a lot of it on AO3 for my new fandom. Not as much on FF.net, at least on the day I was scrolling through.
The concept of xReader interests me as a narrative form. And that makes me want to write one. But while I don't want to snark, I would want to be playing, so what's come to mind is a parody where the fictional character is the reader, and the "you" is an average fan.
(Oh. It also lends itself to a pairing fic where one character is reading xReader about the other character. Hmm. That would actually solve the thing I was writing this post to talk around. I want to write a thing without being rude to fans who write that kind of thing.)
Unfortunately, ABO is also really common in this fandom. Like mpreg, no thank you, other people can have my serving. AU is standard across all my fandoms. In CCS the overdone AUs were rival gang, skater boi, rival business, and princess. In Frozen/Tangled/etc it's business and college/university, while in Supernatural it's single dad and high school AUs. You know I want to put them all together in a Ziploc and shake them like Chex mix.
Anyway, there's still a lot of semi-frozen snow here so I'm probably not leaving the house except to shovel more of it off the deck. May as well write some nonsense. Maybe the Supernatural/Marie Kondo fic that's one of those things that sounds terrible and probably will be.
There's a lot of it on AO3 for my new fandom. Not as much on FF.net, at least on the day I was scrolling through.
The concept of xReader interests me as a narrative form. And that makes me want to write one. But while I don't want to snark, I would want to be playing, so what's come to mind is a parody where the fictional character is the reader, and the "you" is an average fan.
(Oh. It also lends itself to a pairing fic where one character is reading xReader about the other character. Hmm. That would actually solve the thing I was writing this post to talk around. I want to write a thing without being rude to fans who write that kind of thing.)
Unfortunately, ABO is also really common in this fandom. Like mpreg, no thank you, other people can have my serving. AU is standard across all my fandoms. In CCS the overdone AUs were rival gang, skater boi, rival business, and princess. In Frozen/Tangled/etc it's business and college/university, while in Supernatural it's single dad and high school AUs. You know I want to put them all together in a Ziploc and shake them like Chex mix.
Anyway, there's still a lot of semi-frozen snow here so I'm probably not leaving the house except to shovel more of it off the deck. May as well write some nonsense. Maybe the Supernatural/Marie Kondo fic that's one of those things that sounds terrible and probably will be.
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Date: 2019-02-05 11:18 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2019-02-06 11:04 pm (UTC)Thus tricky to write with a straight face...
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Date: 2019-02-06 11:25 pm (UTC)Based in summaries, it seems like a lot of it is. Some of it, like pairing fic I'm more familiar with, is one-sided or PG fluff. I think it's become common because it wouldn't be hard to take an OC story or Mary Sue and replace with Y/N, changing little else. That it's a way to get readers and at the same time, not get "flamed" for old skool wish fulfillment.
Since I write smut that wouldn't be a deterrent anyway. ;)
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Date: 2019-02-06 11:32 pm (UTC)More elegant to write the story in the second person avoiding giving any name to the character at all, I'd have thought; realistically, people tend not to use given names to address others half so often as they do in fiction anyway...
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Date: 2019-02-06 11:44 pm (UTC)Second person POV is more elegant and more difficult. X Reader has more in common with those books where a child's name is inserted, like Choose Your Own Adventure with the adventure already chosen.
SPN is one of those fandoms with a reputation for shipping wars. I wonder if that's why there's so much xReader. Some of the reason must be that it's come out of Tumblr Asks and Tumblr culture in general.