Tag: ginger speaks

I know in the past there was some discussions about Major Character Death, however, I didn’t see too much regarding OC’s (save for one ask). I told a select few of my readers who died in my fic and they ALL said I had to tag it MCD. These deaths are OC’s (not self-inserts either) and so are not canon characters. I would always tag correctly for triggers and such, but I assumed MCD was for canon characters? I lost a bunch of subs and bookmarks after updating the tags. 1/2

ao3commentoftheday:

I think all my readers assumed I’m killing off the main paring 😦 Was hoping you’d open this up to your readers to hear their thoughts on it. (PS. I guess its a massive compliment to me that people care so much about the OC’s I wrote that they were devastated to learn they die). 2/2

I’ll give you my experience, since I have some in this area. I wrote a long fic with two significant OCs and one of them died but I did not tag it with MCD because, like you, I believe that MCD is for canon characters. 

I think that when you kill off a canon character, you’re killing off more than just someone’s investment in this one story you’ve written. It’s this character that is beloved by your readers in a way that OCs (no matter how much they may love them) will never really be loved. It’s shocking when a canon character gets killed off and I know that I don’t actually want to read a fic where my faves get killed off. But an OC? I could deal. The investment just isn’t as great like it is for these canon characters that I’ve watched every week for literal years.

That’s my take on it but I’ll open it up for the followers. Opinions?

–Mod M

I, personally, think that the MCD tag is for any main character in that particular story because the issue isn’t WHOSE character is dying, it’s WHICH character is dying. When we see that OCs are involved, we’re already expecting to treat all the characters the same in our minds. Their deaths weigh as much as the canon characters’ deaths to those of us who read fics with OCs in them. Same thing with whatever other horrible things the author wants to inflict on them. And honestly, it doesn’t make sense to not tag something based on the character’s creator. It makes even less sense when it comes to potentially triggering topics like this one because it happens and not tagging it is fucking rude. To put it lightly.

It doesn’t matter who created the character, if they’re the main character in your story and they die, slap that tag on there because

Proper tagging is proper fucking etiquette.

Self care is making a messy situation that you caused (fictional or not) into a learning experience, aka doing a sick kick flip while telling your anxiety to eat pant

So do those kick flips, make that lil gremlin eat all the pant

I just started reading your bnha chatfic and it’s so good! I would have never thought Baku and Shinsou would work together, but you’ve got me thinking about it. Also, a character development arc is what Baku’s been working towards. The conversation you wrote between him and Deku was wonderfully put, I think. It gave both of them a chance to talk about what’s happened without the whole class knowing EVERYTHING. I love it! Thank you for writing it! Also.. kamixshou?? I’m in love??

aaaaa thanks for the feedback! I just really wanted some non hostile interaction with them at some point, but I also didn’t really wanna gloss over what happened between them! they won’t be perfectly alright for a while, but at least they’ve got their start!

and tbh I’m a big ol hoe for rarepairs, so I saw that it was a thing at one point and I was like “wHY HELLO THERE”

Dear fanfic readers,

Don’t pull this shit.

I don’t know if this was supposed to be a joke, or maybe they thought it would get me to make this ship canon to this instead of the one I have already, but this isn’t the kind of shit authors like to see when they go to check their notifications. I’m sure as fuck not happy about it, which is why I’m making this damn post.

Look, on a site such as this, I get that it’s infinitely harder to filter tags like you can on others. And maybe because you’ve seen fics like mine with that ship, you kind of assumed that you’d be getting your ship since it’s so common among these. But saying shit like this isn’t fucking okay. If you realized that this isn’t what you were expecting, you could’ve just kept reading, or maybe just stopped because you’re not entitled to read for a ship that just doesn’t sail for you.

But the thing is, rarepair writers like me don’t want to see this kind of shit. It’s rude! Simple as tgat, it’s fucking disrespectful to shove your expectations onto people’s work! Especially if they don’t even like the one you wanted!

I mean, I do in this case, I really do like this ship. But this kind of bullshit doesn’t make me want to write it any more, what do you think it does to those who hate that ship? Especially since fic writers don’t owe you anything in the first place.

I know this is just a big wall of text, and I’m sorry, I wasn’t expecting to write this much. But I thought this needed to be said, because for every one of these on a site where the misunderstanding is understandable, there’s a million more on other sites where the ship is plastered on the fic clear as day.

Either way, you’re being a dick. Stop it.

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