I don't writ fic but the fix-it fic for Who that I read the most of is about letting Donna remember w/o her head exploding. I will never ever like nor understand THAT particular plot device.
And that brings up something that could more rightly be called explain-it fic rather than a fix-it fic. Also it's usually just a small part of larger story but I've enjoyed several authors' takes on explaining just how in the hell Mickey & Martha ended up together.
I've never really understood fix-its that have Nine not leaving Jack behind on Satellite 5 because it's the fact that he was left behind & the choices he makes while waiting to meet the Doctor again that shape his character.
The fix-it I'd LOVE to read is one that obliterates the whole 'River is Rory & Amy's child and she grows up to marry the Doctor' storyline. It's not so much the marrying the Doctor (though that is just odd) but the River is Melody Pond that I find just weird & kinda icky. (not a popular sentiment I know but there it is)
I've read and written various fixits. I found that a story whose whole point is the fix (eg: the Doctor finds a way to restore Donna's memory, and he does it. The end.) is rather like eating sugar: it gives you a buzz, but isn't particularly filling. So these days, I prefer to make sure the fix is almost incidental to the story, rather than its centrepiece. Hopefully, that means people who don't agree with me on the need for a fix in the first place can still find something to enjoy in the story.
For example, one fic I wrote had Amy and Rory meeting Romana - obviously, that 'fixes' Romana's implied death in the Time War, but since Amy and Rory don't know that she's supposed to be dead in the first place, how she came back is the least of their worries.
I like them when effort goes into them, because hey, season finales seem to bring out a plague of terrible life decisions in showrunners and it's satisfying when fans take all the themes and plot threads that had been woven together throughout a storyline and deliberately try to tie them off in better ways. And sometimes (as with the Master's death in Last of the Time Lords) it was not actually a bad writing decision, but it dangled the possibility of something delicious under our noses and yanked it away, so fix-it AUs are a fun exercise in what-if.
I'm less keen when the author obviously just wanted to write a couple of characters together but canon got in the way, so the fic is set in some vague AU timeline where XYZ never happened. It's not a dealbreaker or anything, I just find it... IDK, mildly lazy and/or distasteful? Especially the frequency with which it happens.
I've got this idea for another explanation of the line "You shouldn't have married me" in "The End of Time" because sometimes I just don't like the idea Martha and Mickey being together. And somteimes I do, I'm weird that way. But I've never managed to write it down and make a fanfic. I just have the idea in my mind.
And I've read some fanfics about Donna dealing with having a Time Lord brain bacause I needed them. It's not like I treat it like canon but it's just an alternate ending I think of when I have a bad day.
I think I'd look for alternate Day of the Doctor some day, just to see how it could be done diferently.
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And that brings up something that could more rightly be called explain-it fic rather than a fix-it fic. Also it's usually just a small part of larger story but I've enjoyed several authors' takes on explaining just how in the hell Mickey & Martha ended up together.
I've never really understood fix-its that have Nine not leaving Jack behind on Satellite 5 because it's the fact that he was left behind & the choices he makes while waiting to meet the Doctor again that shape his character.
The fix-it I'd LOVE to read is one that obliterates the whole 'River is Rory & Amy's child and she grows up to marry the Doctor' storyline. It's not so much the marrying the Doctor (though that is just odd) but the River is Melody Pond that I find just weird & kinda icky. (not a popular sentiment I know but there it is)
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For example, one fic I wrote had Amy and Rory meeting Romana - obviously, that 'fixes' Romana's implied death in the Time War, but since Amy and Rory don't know that she's supposed to be dead in the first place, how she came back is the least of their worries.
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I'm less keen when the author obviously just wanted to write a couple of characters together but canon got in the way, so the fic is set in some vague AU timeline where XYZ never happened. It's not a dealbreaker or anything, I just find it... IDK, mildly lazy and/or distasteful? Especially the frequency with which it happens.
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And I've read some fanfics about Donna dealing with having a Time Lord brain bacause I needed them. It's not like I treat it like canon but it's just an alternate ending I think of when I have a bad day.
I think I'd look for alternate Day of the Doctor some day, just to see how it could be done diferently.
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