fandomsecrets | [ SECRET POST #340 ]

⌈ Secret Post #340 ⌋

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

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Notes:

Posting for Shahni! And early because I've got ~~pseuicide~~ class.

Secrets Left to Post: 06 pages, 150 secrets from Secret Submission Post #049.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 1 2 3 4 ] broken links, [ 1 2] not!secrets, 0 not!fandom.
Next Secret Post: Tomorrow, Wednesday, December 12th, 2007.
Current Secret Submission Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

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1. I'd join and wouldn't hate or mock you. Even if I haven't read the last two books because I'm afraid of my sisters deciding to mock me for being eighteen and still enjoying Redwall....

12. Secret OP is right. The fandom is batshit and has gone to hell in a handbasket.

That said...

subaru_san, IS THAT YOU BEIN' ALL BUTTHURT BECAUSE ANONYMICE THINK YOU'RE A HACKNEYED WANKER?

Or am I misreading it, and it's someone ticked at her? Still, the "improving the fandom" sounds oddly familiar... and by the way? Hackneyed wanker just sounds funny! Doesn't mean me or anyone else is the anonymouse who first used it~♥

27. But what are your thoughts on yuri, hm~?

*whisper* I'm 20 and I still love Redwall. Tried to make an RP once. I think OP should make one so we can go pretend to not be ourselves and RP.

I'm 23 and all my Redwall books are dogeared from me constantly rereading them. |D

My mom is in her forties and has dogeared my copies from reading them.

Actually, it's nothing about her, and I can already tell who the secret refers to. I'm personally wagering that it's about two giant assholish 'BNF's who think that they own fandom now because of their oh-so-pretty slash writing. Which isn't even that good, really, but that's just to my taste. Honestly, anyone could have written the secret. Half the fandom that isn't busy kissing ass would have liked to do it first. I've wanted to from the second they started writing stuff for D.Gray. And no, you aren't 'saving' D.Gray-man from anything, you insufferable cunts.

...Because they've sure as hell discouraged me from posting anything. And yes, if you think I'm talking about you? I am! Congratulations, you're the worst thing to happen to this fandom's morale, you obnoxious twits. That can go for the two of you, but this is mostly about you, dear. You, the loudmouthed, extra-obnoxious one. You know who you are.

With all due respect -- if you don't think the people this secret concerns are as godly as they think they are, and if you don't agree with their views, then why allow them to have the sort of power over you that prevents you from posting your own contributions to the fandom? IMO the threat of being snarked at by them and other fanbrats isn't as intimidating as it would seem if you don't agree with anything they say/do/write in the first place.

You have a good point, but it's one of those things that's easy to accept in print but a wee bit harder to carry out in actual practice. I was wrong to resort to personal insults, and should they read this (if you aren't they,) I apologize on that behalf. I was in a bad mood, and I have no excuse for myself. All I can do is ask that you pardon my rudeness.

But generally, half the fandom brown-noses those two on a regular basis. That alone makes it a little hard to ignore the fact that they have some sort of influence over writers, whether said writers agree with them or not. That's a little like saying, 'Well, I don't agree with Hitler's views, so therefore he has no power over me.'

Mind, I'm not comparing either of them to Hitler, nor insinuating that they have some sort of iron grip on the D.Gray-man community of writers even minutely comparable to him. As a matter of fact, that's a tasteless analogy, and I admit it being so. But regardless.... They're 'big' now, and they have a kind of influence over that facet of fandom whether they or anyone else likes it or not. The fact that they act so negatively towards other writers shows that they apparently have no regard for the consequences of said influence, which frankly, bothers a lot of people. Especially the writers that they've used as 'examples' of bad writing.

I understand entirely that it's easy to read/type and say 'YEAH!' than put it into practice, which is why I was hesitant to post it in the first place. I also feel that no apology is needed (and no, I'm neither of the people this secret is addressing, just an onlooker), because understandably seeing your work blasted can be a bit frustrating, and FS is a place for people to vent, after all.

Actually, I'm not even one of the writers that they've picked on in the past, but... I write, and I'm not terribly sensitive, but the thought of one of my pieces ending up as some 'look fandom, this is how you DON'T write such and such' essay on their personal journals is a little disheartening.

They and others might not believe so, but that sort of thing really kills creative spirit, and not just among a few people, either. I don't want my stuff to end up as some sort of 'bad' example for their groups of friends to behold and scoff at.

Of course, both of them have issued apologies, so I can't really say that I'm forever bitter towards them (provided that they're sincere). It makes me wonder just why they thought it was acceptable in the first place. But, hey, whatever. At least they've acknowledged that they did bad things.

Who in the world are you talking about? What do they write? This anon is baffled. I didn't realize DGM even had any BNFs.

sutlers and asingulargirl. I'd be pressed to call them BNFs, but hey, whatever. They just write Kanda and Allen stuff, for the most part.

Well, the secret poster didn't seem to have a problem with the concept of yaoi in general--that is, slashfic--they were just complaining that it was everywhere in the fandom and that it had consumed it.

Which is something that I can sort of agree with at times... the sentiment if not the whole thing.

I can see that eye-roll. Anonymous sees all, remember. :P

But yes, it is pretty much exactly what the poster above said.

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