Getting Stuck In: Part 3
By: Bridget Gordon (@thaumatropia)
This is the final installment of a 3-part series. Here’s Part 1 and Part 2.
There’s a particular kind of fanfiction called Fix Fic. These stories essentially try to address something in the story or the universe that the fic writer believes is wrong somehow. An example would be Firefly fanfic that features Asian characters— something the original canon, despite borrowing so heavily from Chinese culture, frustratingly neglects.
Eventually I realized that my playing FIFA is, in effect, a way of creating Fix Fix in order to reconcile how the current landscape of English football is and how I think it should be. In the real world, AFC Wimbledon are stuck in England’s fourth division, struggling each season to avoid relegation to the semi-professional leagues. They have barely any money and, while several promising young talents have emerged from the academy system and broken into the first team, none of them are going to be world-beaters.
