[ SECRET POST #2732 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2732 ⌋

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

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Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ], [ 1 - spam ].
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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I knew I recognised that library. I was only in it briefly, our art class had a flying tour of Trinity College on the way to the National Gallery for the actual lesson part of proceedings. It's a really gorgeous library, though.

As to the secret itself, I think you can get quite a bit of life experience from both? I've been reading more or less everything that passed my way since I was a kid, and there are things I can readily identify as having been learned from books, and things I can identify as having learned from fic or conversations started in the wake of fic, and things I've no idea where the hell I picked up at all. Fic has an interesting advantage in that you can often talk to the author, which is a way of sharing their life experience with you, whereas with books, especially older books, there's a window on viewpoints and ways of life that are defunct now or that you're unlikely to encounter a living embodiment of (baring vampirism or immortality). Books have a slightly less ephemeral feeling, like there's a hope they'll last longer, while fic often gives a sense of more immediate contact and engagement with a viewpoint. There's pros and cons either way.

So, in a sense, I partially agree? I think reading all of the above and more probably gives someone a more rounded contact with things, but depending on tastes individual people might prefer one or the other as a primary means. Fanfic gives you slightly different flavours and approaches to things, there's a set of tropes and standards in fandom that isn't matched by the publishing world, so it is two different outlooks and, ah, permissible topics of discussion? There's value in both, from an education and life experience standpoint, is what I'm saying.