[ SECRET POST #2723 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2723 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[True Blood]


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03.
[Hawaii Five-0]


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04.
[MTV faking it]


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[Natsume Yuujinchou]


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06.
[Persona Arena Ultimax]


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[Linda Blair, Alicia Silverstone, Natalie Portman, Chris Evans, Albert Einstein, Paul and Linda McCartney]


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[Sarah Silverman]


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09.
[Pocahontas]


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10.
[Kick Ass 2]


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[I Made America]


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[A League of Their Own]


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[Loki: Agent of Asgard]


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15.
[Some of Us / Free! Iwatobi Swim Club]


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16.
[Portal]










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Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 052 secrets from Secret Submission Post #389.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[blueonblue]

They say people are happiest when they have just a little more money than their friends, and I have a feeling kudos/comments are the same way. How can a writer be happy with 500 kudos when someone else in the same fandom has 1000? It might be silly, after all, 500 people liked your story, but feelings are often unreasonable.

[(Anonymous)]

OP here. Yeah, that's the feeling I get from those authors. They think reviews/follows doesn't count unless they have the most from any fic in the fandom, and since they aren't, the rest simply don't exist.

I agree it's an unreasonable attitude, and pretty ungrateful for those who liked their works, if you ask me, but one thing is to feel like this and the other is to write post after post of "my work is being completely ignored."

I didn't understand their attitude, but your's is the best explanation I've read for that kind of behavior.

[(Anonymous)]

And for some people, there's no such thing as enough feedback.

I know someone who regularly posts complaints about how she's not getting enough comments on her fics and artwork. The rest of the time, she's attempting to draw attention obliquely by mentioning her own work and dropping broad hints. Virtually every communication is some version of LOOK AT MEEEEE. But here's the thing: she regularly receives more feedback than anyone else in that fandom.

For someone like this, I don't think ANY amount of positive feedback and love will satisfy. Sometimes I wonder if getting attention just makes her hungrier. It's actually pretty sad.

[(Anonymous)]

NAYRT:

"For someone like this, I don't think ANY amount of positive feedback and love will satisfy." Oh, this is such a good point. I do know writers whose main source of self-validation is believing they're good writers, and they're just vast pits of need, in terms of praise and attention. It really is sad.

And I get feeling anxious about how your stuff is received! Myself, I love to get comments/reviews and kudos, and see hit tallies rise on my stuff-- it's only natural. (I've had very insecure days when I've had to remind myself, "even if half those hits are people hate-reading, the other half genuinely like it!") So many of us are insecure, it's only human. But learning to appreciate what we get, instead of angsting over not being the very top of the tree, can make writing and sharing a lot more fun. Some of the really insecure writers I've seen don't seem to enjoy ANYTHING anymore-- except maybe passive-aggressively tearing down someone else's story to try and make theirs look better by comparison. Sad.

[(Anonymous)]

Yep. I know that's true for me. I know the feelings are unreasonable, which is why I don't say anything publicly or whine about the "lack", because it is disrespectful to the people who do regularly review/comment/kudo.

But when I see horribly written and OOC fics getting hundreds of reviews, while mine have a small but dedicated following, it just feels so unfair because I actually take my "silly fanfic writing" seriously, while the "OMG I WROTE THIS AT 4AM WHILE HIGH ON PIXY STIX LOLOLOL!!!11!!" fics get all the glory.