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The real tragedy of modern fandom is that sometime between 2002 and the present day, people stopped reading and enjoying oc x canon fics.
Sometime in the past 20 years readers became convinced that fanfic with an oc main character wasn’t ‘for’ them, was somehow personal to the author, wasn’t interesting, wasn’t something that you could put your self in.
In the past 20 years people forgot how to treat an “oc” main character like any protagonist and project themselves on them.
There used to be loads and loads of LOTR “12th walker” fics with different oc main characters. People read them! They got comments and interaction! Obviously not everybody liked them but they were way more visibly popular than they are now.
I can point you to my old OC x canon fics from 2002-2006 and they all had like 12 comments per chapter.
Somewhere along the way the idea of empathizing with somebody’s oc went out the window and now we have all these 2nd person POV “you x canon” fics instead.
Am I bitter about it?
Yeah. A little.
I’m trying to imagine being 16 today– instead of 2002– and posting oc x canon fanfic and just nobody fucking reads it. Super depressing. 😩
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