fix-it adj.

Could this lesson have been learned without Qui-Gon’s death? Possibly. And I want to stress that there are some ‘fixit’ stories that maintain a certain tragic integrity (although these are usually AU’s that take the saga in direction Lucas never imagined). The problem with many of these ‘fixit’ stories, tho’, is that either their sole purpose is to provide a happy ending, to revive a character the author clearly loves, or to keep Qui-Gon around for post-TPM stories.

I knew they were gonna do bad things to my favorite character... I knew they were gonna do bad things to my favorite character... I knew they were gonna do bad things to my favorite character... *wanders off to write a fix-it fic*

I've been thinking about this, has anyone thought about writing a Fix-It Fic for Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, or Breaking Dawn? Now, I'm not talking about AU fics, or fics where Bella is paired up with one of the dozen guys falling all over her instead of going with Edward. Rather, I'm talking about someone taking the Twilight universe and ‘fixing’ all the things wrong with it.

In 1893, tired of the character, Conan Doyle killed Holmes off. Holmes fans were outraged, and they let the author know it in letters. Then, in a classic case of fans wanting more of what they love, they wrote their own stories, which they called pastiches, a word borrowed from French. Some, in what modern fans call fix-it fic, found ways to resurrect Holmes. Conan Doyle eventually brought Holmes back—but by then an influential fandom had been born.

i love how there’s the genre of fix-it fic where the author goes into great granular detail of how our heroes manage to avoid or undo whatever character death or other unpopular choice occurred, in a way that abides by the laws of the fictional universe and definitely required a substantial plot outline, and then there are fix-it fics where the author just went ‘that’s bullshit and didn’t happen,’ and we as readers all go ‘agreed. carry on’.

I was today years old when I learned fix-it fics don't necessarily always mean ‘fics that undo the characters' deaths and make things better for these characters, or fics that rewrite canon to make a ship happen’ but it can also mean ‘fics that just make the torture a thousand times more graphic and WORSE for the blorbos since canon is too vanilla’ what???? so fix-it fics is basically fics that make the authors happy? hmm, I am not complaining ;)