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mmxwritingcircle[Insert my old adage of this fandom being so high-strung that it stifled creativity and got trapped in the vicious circle of technically good artists only drawing game scene reenactments, canon-compliant fic, or worse: novelizations and how this accelerated the fandom death.]
So, stuff you want to see and stuff you want to burn in hell.
+ Silliness in general. Only in MMX I wish for things like coffeeshop AUS, movie night prompts, and those things that are often considered the bane of megafandoms. But I do cross the line at High School and Contemporary Mundane AUs, I'm trash but not THAT kind of trash.
+ Female character centered stuff that's not fap material to fanboys, even if it's not my focus at the moment. Alia (SCIENCE HERO) is cool! Marino is cool! But please don't use them for clichéd het romance, that, we already have too much.
+ Noblebright and positive what-ifs. Yup, MMX is a dark, dark canon even with the goofy animaloids and the neon-colored robots. But I always saw the darkness as a result of incompetence than just ~~fate~~. Make Dr. Light, Cain or even X marginally intelligent, the world changes for the better. Many of the darker stuff on the later games was pastede on yay, IMO.
- Novelizations. We're in 2015, we have the Wiki, we have Let's Plays. There's no need to masturbate your own ego on a 500k+ saga that basically retreads stuff that everyone knows. This kind of thing is the #1 source of fandom snobbery on the fandom-producing side.
- Grimdark. Bringing the dark stuff that's implied on the games isn't a bad thing by itself, the problem is that it has been done to death. Most of time, pastede on yay and with no nuance whatsoever. It does not look mature, guys — it SCREAMS 13-year-old boy posting at ff.net for the very first time. And in the great majority of cases, it cheapens the actual tragedy for shock value.
- Cataclysm theory, AKA "Zero killed everyone at the end of Classic" and the "gentler" variants like "Light family got murdered": NO. NO. CLOSE YOUR WORD DOCUMENT RIGHT NOW. DELETE YOUR FF.NET/AO3 ACCOUNT. LOWER YOUR HEAD. YOU DID IT WRONG.YOU FUCKED UP. GO LISTEN TO LINKIN PARK, KIDDO.
So, stuff you want to see and stuff you want to burn in hell.
+ Silliness in general. Only in MMX I wish for things like coffeeshop AUS, movie night prompts, and those things that are often considered the bane of megafandoms. But I do cross the line at High School and Contemporary Mundane AUs, I'm trash but not THAT kind of trash.
+ Female character centered stuff that's not fap material to fanboys, even if it's not my focus at the moment. Alia (SCIENCE HERO) is cool! Marino is cool! But please don't use them for clichéd het romance, that, we already have too much.
+ Noblebright and positive what-ifs. Yup, MMX is a dark, dark canon even with the goofy animaloids and the neon-colored robots. But I always saw the darkness as a result of incompetence than just ~~fate~~. Make Dr. Light, Cain or even X marginally intelligent, the world changes for the better. Many of the darker stuff on the later games was pastede on yay, IMO.
- Novelizations. We're in 2015, we have the Wiki, we have Let's Plays. There's no need to masturbate your own ego on a 500k+ saga that basically retreads stuff that everyone knows. This kind of thing is the #1 source of fandom snobbery on the fandom-producing side.
- Grimdark. Bringing the dark stuff that's implied on the games isn't a bad thing by itself, the problem is that it has been done to death. Most of time, pastede on yay and with no nuance whatsoever. It does not look mature, guys — it SCREAMS 13-year-old boy posting at ff.net for the very first time. And in the great majority of cases, it cheapens the actual tragedy for shock value.
- Cataclysm theory, AKA "Zero killed everyone at the end of Classic" and the "gentler" variants like "Light family got murdered": NO. NO. CLOSE YOUR WORD DOCUMENT RIGHT NOW. DELETE YOUR FF.NET/AO3 ACCOUNT. LOWER YOUR HEAD. YOU DID IT WRONG.YOU FUCKED UP. GO LISTEN TO LINKIN PARK, KIDDO.
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Date: 2015-07-27 03:42 am (UTC)+ More gen. I'm as guilty as anyone - maybe even more so. But I feel like a lot of fics are now just 'smash two characters together, add a kink, plop the result on Ao3'. Worlds Unite has a lot of problems, but it's whet my desire to see just straight up Adventure Heroes stuff happening. The problem is that gen underperforms - at least when I write it. :( And gen IS hard - there's a lot of moving parts in a good gen fic, and it's hard to get people to care about it if it isn't Gay Luv X/Zero #9,903,833.
+ Rare pairs. I do my part, but I'm always hungry for more and more and more. I want to see how other characters bounce off, change and manipulate the core trio. It's all relationships with me.
+ Porn that brings something to to the table. Anyone can write porn. Anyone can slam two characters together and yell "NOW KISS!" Make it something that changes the world. Or enlightens us to a new facet of the character. Or highlights a hidden aspect of the character. Something meaty and raw and where we really feel the place they're going to as something real, or raw, or terrible, or wonderful. Make me feel something.
- Infantilizing Axl. Stop it right now. Axl's very first on screen appearance is a murder. Stop treating him like he's 12. He can be a junior Hunter and still be competent, fear-inspiring, vicious, or even a cold blooded killer. We've already seen he has the capacity to kill in cold blood when he has to. He shot Sigma in the fucking face. Stop making him some kind of baby. I see this way too much and it drives me nuts. Axl has emotional needs and clinginess - that's not the same as being childish. He also, lest we forget, murdered his entire previous 'family' without batting an obvious eye - only Red caused him to hesitate.
And let's not even get into the whole 'Axl perceives Zero as a replacement for Red' thing because DUH YES OF COURSE HE DOES?
- Cataclysm. Second. Drop that shit. Zero has enough psychological burdens and trauma. You wanting him to go against his core character and murder everyone just so you can bridge the gap between two series that actually weren't meant to directly connect? (protip: Wily and Light are in X as CAMEO APPEARANCES, it does NOT make them and Classic a consistent timeline, and neither does the end of the NONCANON arcade game just because Zero is in it argh)
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Date: 2015-07-27 10:37 pm (UTC)Maybe if this comm thrives we can get more gen? Gen works sometimes are made for elaborating a point/headcanon for a group to see its application in the canon, so it's not that hopeless, I think.
As for the pastede on yay porn, I told you in skype, for now it's pretty much the work of just one writer with weird as fuck kinks on AO3, and even our sillier stuff has some thought put on it. We're not as prolific, but our stuff is way better received ;D
Infantilized Axl is something I see on works from younger writers who are obviously projecting on him. Yes, Axl is cute, it does not mean he's a useless baby. X suffers from the same problem, really.