[ SECRET POST #2858 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2858 ⌋

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

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[Orlando Jones]


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[Sleepy Hollow]


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[Mariana's Trench]


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[Game of Thrones]


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[Ace Attorney]


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[George, Prince of Wales/Beau Brummell]


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[Star Trek: The Next Generation]


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[Star Wars: The Old Republic]


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[Scorpion]


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[Harry Potter]


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[Sakana]


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Notes:

Late work day again, sorry.

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 016 secrets from Secret Submission Post #408.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ], [ 2 - personal attacks ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[fscom]

20. http://i62.tinypic.com/2col8wz.png

[(Anonymous)]

I don't, but I have found that some of my favorite fanfics are not all that wonderfully written and are sometimes wildly OOC, but since I enjoyed them anyway, I'll rec them/leave good reviews.

I'm not looking for the same level of writing on fanfics as I am in books. For one, I always want a happy ending or I don't want to waste my time. If I find a professional quality fic, great! But I don't need fanfic to be on that level.

[ariakas]

I haven't done it, but it's not exactly a secret people suck up to BNFs.

[(Anonymous)]

No.

If I leave a glowing comment or rec a story it's because I liked it. I don't care who wrote it, friend, stranger, BNF, newbie, who cares about that stuff. The whole point of a rec or a great comment is to tell someone you liked a fic.

[helenadax]

No, never.

[(Anonymous)]

Nope. I'm a picky reader. And I'm a meticulous writer when it comes to my own fics. It busts my chops when a poorly plotted or characterised story gets raves.

[chardmonster]

Here's the thing: a lot of people have shit taste.

[(Anonymous)]

I remember leaving a positive comment on Master of the Universe because it was just amusing trash reading at the time. I will never say anything positive about Fifty Shades of Gray.

Take from that what you will.

[(Anonymous)]

I used to do recs in the HP fandom. I never recced anyone just because they were a BNF and I wanted to suck up.

I also used to find most other rec lists had truly horrible fic. snegurochka_lee was an exception.

People just have wildly different tastes.

[kallanda_lee]

I don't rec/reblog/review if I think it's boring.

I do have some lenience on the writing style, though. If I like their concepts and ideas, but their writing is bit poor, I do try to encourage them, because, you know, some people do actually get better with practice.

[(Anonymous)]

Lol that fanart.

[littlestbirds]

bet this happens accidentally more than you think. They're thinking "I want X to like me, she posted a thing, lets rec it!" because they don't have a strong sense of what they enjoy or what they actually think is good, and they want to seem like they do.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm sure some people do this. But there are recss based on the fic and not on a name.

[(Anonymous)]

A few years ago there was this fic that everyone was absolutely jizzing themselves over, so I decided to give it a read, only to find it was awful. Like, OOC, poorly-thought out AU, clunky... it wasn't written offensively bad, but it wasn't anything like what people said it was. The only reason I remember it at all is because literally every seemed to be shitting themselves over how great it was and I wondered wtf they were smoking.

[(Anonymous)]

People probably do this. When there are dozens of glowing reviews (by people who have different taste or something) no one wants to be the lone critical review.

[elaminator]

No, but I'm sure I've rec'd things in the past that people thought were shit. Tastes vary, a lot.

[esteefee]

I've posted about a story that was gifted to me that was less than the best ever, but that seems only courteous. Other than that, nah. I only rec or comment on stories I like.

Also, I don't think most people are paying attention to who is commenting on people's stories. I know I'm not. I will respond to comments I think are interesting, but only then will I notice who actually said them.

[(Anonymous)]

There's a fic blog in my current fandom, and occasionally the blogger makes a rec, or says a fic is particularly good.

I hate that so much!

The problem is that this is a really small, nice fandom so I don't want to cause waves, but arrrgggh I hate the most popular fics in this fandom. Purple prose! Mindless OOC smut! Long, plotless fics that look like a spider wrote them! I hate most of other people's recs in the fandom. I have nowhere else to vent this.

It feels alienating when I dislike these classics of the fandom, like I'm being pushed out. I know that's not the intent, but I'd rather everyone kept their opinions to themselves, except when commenting on the fics themselves, or in their own private blogs.

This fandom is actually better than most for that, so I've got nothing to complain about, really.

Still


ARRRRRRGH!

[(Anonymous)]

Never have, but it does go on.

Like someone else mentioned above, there's somewhat of a more level playing field in the age of Tumblr and AO3 and the like, so the "must fall over myself to brown-nose the BNF and ride their coat-tails!" thing doesn't have quite the power it did, but it still happens. Most often among younger/newer fans, I've noticed (at least in my fandom) so I don't know if it's an attempt to short-cut their way to fandom popularity by trying to appear as the BNF's BNF.

[(Anonymous)]

I think that people do this a lot.

I think that people also often promote mediocre fics that have trendy themes in them, like an AU setting suggested in a popular text post, or a pairing that the fandom plays lip service to in order to seem progressive, but isn't genuinely invested in. They didn't really enjoy the generic trendy fic they're reccing, but they want brownie points.

[(Anonymous)]

Nope, I sure as hell don't do this. If I like the story, I'll leave comments and kudos. If it sucks, I back button the fuck out. Why would I want to encourage shitty writing? It makes no sense.

[(Anonymous)]

This is precisely why I roll my eyes every time someone asks how to find decent fanfic and the answer is "Look for the fics with the most reviews! That way you know they're good!"

Um. No.

[(Anonymous)]

I know that's got to be the case with at least some people. I did it once myself, for a fic I'd never even finished reading. Now I'd read other stories by the author before and loved them, and this story was hailed almost universally as her best work and an iconic fic for the pairing in question, so I felt reasonably sure I wasn't reccing a lemon or anything. I'd recently gotten "in" with that BNF and her circle, and wanted to earn points with them.

...but it came back to bite me in the ass anyway, when I later wrote a story for the same pairing that ended up having a similar theme to that fic. People were convinced it was meant as a tribute, and I couldn't exactly protest that I hadn't even known the famous fic even used that theme due to having never really read it.

Don't lie for popularity, kids. Irony's a bitch.

Nope.

[(Anonymous)]

I guess some people do this, but mostly I think it's just a matter of taste. Sometimes people don't care about characterization. Sometimes it's all about the tropes or kink that a fic hits. Sometimes the humor just works for someone. Sometimes there's a plot or a theme that people like. How many classic novels have you actually enjoyed? Some of them, sure. But how many do critics think are awesome that you found utterly boring? Beyond grammar, spelling, and sentence construction, a lot of judgment of writing is subjective.

But I've only ever commented on fic that I liked in some way or had a question about.

[(Anonymous)]

No. I don't think people really do this all that much, if at all.