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: 2011-06-28 04:13 am (UTC)