Fandom AU fanfic about female characters
Jun. 24th, 2011 05:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alias_sqbrI've come across a few fandom AU m/m fics where the leads are fanfic authors (most recently The Theory of Narrative Causality, which I thought was quite cleverly done) and was wondering if there were any similar stories with a fanfic writing female (or otherwise non-male) protagonist based on a fictional character, not counting Becky from Supernatural (where's it's canon(*))
It's not that I'm desperate to read such a story, though I'd give it a go, I'm just curious. I can imagine that the spectre of Mary Sue would loom particularly large with such stories, especially since a common flaw in the m/m I've seen of this type is the way fandom fawns over the main characters (leading to a "female fans squeeing about male fans squeeing about male characters" vibe that rubs me the wrong way)
Varric and Isabela from Dragon Age 2 both canonically write (or at least discuss) stories about the other characters, but I find it hard to imagine a fandom AU that would feel very in character. (EDIT: Wait, no it's not. Ok, this is fun to imagine :D)
...and now I want a modern day AU of Northanger Abbey with Catherine and Isabella as writers of terrible Mary Sue fics and Henry as the non-geeky guy they try and convert to their favourite tv show.
(*)For an example of SPN fic being deliberately meta about her, see If On a Winter’s Night a Fangirl and How Becky Totally Saved the World.
It's not that I'm desperate to read such a story, though I'd give it a go, I'm just curious. I can imagine that the spectre of Mary Sue would loom particularly large with such stories, especially since a common flaw in the m/m I've seen of this type is the way fandom fawns over the main characters (leading to a "female fans squeeing about male fans squeeing about male characters" vibe that rubs me the wrong way)
Varric and Isabela from Dragon Age 2 both canonically write (or at least discuss) stories about the other characters, but I find it hard to imagine a fandom AU that would feel very in character. (EDIT: Wait, no it's not. Ok, this is fun to imagine :D)
...and now I want a modern day AU of Northanger Abbey with Catherine and Isabella as writers of terrible Mary Sue fics and Henry as the non-geeky guy they try and convert to their favourite tv show.
(*)For an example of SPN fic being deliberately meta about her, see If On a Winter’s Night a Fangirl and How Becky Totally Saved the World.
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Date: 2011-06-25 02:08 pm (UTC)Yeah, Pairing: Pendragon/Merlin was particularly obnoxious in that regard.
Looking through the comments it looks like people are less annoyed about self insertion in principle and more about having Jensen Ackles allegedly act as a mouthpiece for the writer's opinions on some specific fandom drama. Which I can't comment on without having read the fic or being familiar with the drama, but it is rather meta :)