So there's a Mag7 Big Bang, huh.

[scrollgirl]

M7 fandom and I are not friends. That is to say, while I know a few M7 fans (some on my flist, some not) who actually have a clue about white privilege, for the most part M7 fandom has made me desperately unhappy.

It's not that I have a problem with a particular fan or group of fans. I couldn't name more than two or three people in M7 fandom. It's

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[fantasyenabler]

The biggest problem I found within M7 fandom were the Ezra fans who felt that they had to clean up some of the dirt the show tried to throw on him, and thus, had to vilify the one character he had problems with in the pilot: Nathan. Thus they take the issues of post-Civil War Confederate vs. post-Civil War freed slave that the show actually tried to represent, albeit hamhandedly, and dumb it down to "Nathan is too much of a hard nose. He doesn't see that Ezra's roguish ways are just a cover for his noble heart."

This is how we end up with the "Nathan is a jerk who has to be taught the evil of his ways characterization." So much so that if you see a story has Ezra as its "misunderstood protagonist," you could almost guarantee that Nathan would be written as an ass.

That's my interpretation anyway.

Your mileage may vary.

[fantasyenabler]

[rubygirl29]

You must be familiar with the "Saint Ezra" school of M7 fanfic! Argh!!!

[scrollgirl]

And that's why I don't touch M7 fic with a ten foot pole. I'm sure there are some good stories out there, but unless you know the author and trust her not to punch you in the face, it's too dangerous to venture out.