#this has unlocked Forbidden memories about fandoms i've been in and fics i've read oh no

[orestesdreams-pyladesloves]

What fics did you read that totally changed how you thought about certain canon/characters????

oh gosh, friend, here’s where my terrible memory comes into play, I’m going to completely disappoint you by not having anything super Specific to point to.

I guess as of late, when I first started watching The Untamed, I didn’t really place much stock into the internal motivations of Lan Xichen? And then I read a few character study fics about him and all the sudden I really felt my perception of him did such a disservice to his character? I might have a few of those hanging around on my Untamed Fic Recs page if you just search either ‘character study’ or ‘lan xichen.’

I know with Les Mis, it was less about canon, but rather how fics shaped the way I viewed the characters? Here, I do have something specific: talk revolution to me, baby. This collection of fics was my first foray into like the Modern Amis world back in like 2013 and definitely was formative in how I first thought about Modern AUs and what not in terms of Les Amis. I’ve definitely distanced myself from that since then, but I still remember those fics fondly.

What content I was mainly referring to in my tags are not from Current fandoms like TUD or Les Mis, but ones like uhhh Glee and Teen Wolf. 

I don’t want to talk too much about Glee because I don’t know if I could do it without like,,, Crying, but Teen Wolf specifically the fics made me realize, oh fuck, these creators don’t know what the fuck they’re doing with their characters. I mean, there’s plenty of media where you run into the creators doing their characters dirty and fic writers come in to save the day. But I cannot overstate how emotionally invested I was into Teen Wolf. There are so many fics that I read that just completely whacked me upside the head with ways to think and interact with the characters from that show and gave me a deeper understanding of them (probably deeper than the creators even intended. bleh). I know some of them are on my Teen Wolf Fic Recs page,, but I’m certain that most of them aren’t.

In general though, there’s definitely fics out there in a myriad of fandoms that I can point to and be like that’s my canon, anything else can leave. Or moments in fics where I’m like,, yes this is now part of that character no matter what universe they’re in, like this is an integral part of their personality random fact from an unfinished WIP.

*shrug* fanfiction is Powerful and I thank the fic writers every day for giving me Much to think about all the time