X-Readers: How they're seen and why I do it anyway by RensKnight, journal
X-Readers: How they're seen and why I do it anyway
I've been thinking about writing something like this for a long while, but a recent chat with EsmeAmeliaSolo (https://www.deviantart.com/esmeameliasolo) gave me the final kick to get this all written down. :)
Whether you come from the perspective of liking or disliking second-person POV fics, also known as Reader-Inserts or X-Readers, I'm sure you've all heard the dislike and in some cases hate thrown in the direction of the genre. Heck, second-person fics of all kinds actually managed to get a blanket ban on FanFiction.net, which right there carries a major stigma. I've even seen entire blogs dedicated to nothing but ridiculing X-Readers in really nasty language. To hear some peo