[ SECRET POST #2878 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2878 ⌋

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

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 029 secrets from Secret Submission Post #411.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[fscom]

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[(Anonymous)]

You get comments? Can I have some?

I submitted the secret

[(Anonymous)]

Not any more, that's the point.

Though I got about another half dozen comments since I posted this secret a few days ago. That's about all I can take, to be honest.

I mostly post anon these days so my name can't follow me (not that I was ever that well known) but that means I can't disable comments. I see them when I go to update my fics.

I don't even think I get that many comments, just that they seem like a lot to me. I want to join in with fandom, just not too much. I feel pretty stupid about this.

At least I'm managing not to run away from something I really enjoy these days. Fanfic is my main hobby and I didn't post at all for a couple of years.

[(Anonymous)]

Okay?

Whatever inspires you to write, I guess. I don't write just to get comments, but it's nice when I get them.

[(Anonymous)]

I wish I had the luxury of choosing to write about unpopular characters and subjects. I can either write about the unpopular things that I love and get nothing, or write about the popular pairings that I only vaguely care about and get the validation I want. It sucks.

[(Anonymous)]

Since I only write my own original characters now--I have fanfic ideas but never work on them--everything I do is unpopular.

...But it's not like I was raking in the love in fandom.

[(Anonymous)]

So... humblebrag?

I submitted the secret

[(Anonymous)]

That I hardly get any comments is a brag?

Everyone used to get a lot of comments years ago, it's nothing to brag about either.

Re: I submitted the secret

[(Anonymous)]

It could be a humblebrag if it's couched in "Oh, I'm the bestest because I used to get a TON of comments ALL the time, but I've evolved and don't get any any more so I'm much better/so over that"

Even if that doesn't apply specifically to you, anon, there ARE people to whom it would.

[(Anonymous)]

Hmm, I don't think so.

[(Anonymous)]

Reverse psychology on yourself. That's... Novel.

Ooooooohhhh, noooooooo, I haaaaaate comments.

[(Anonymous)]

Watch out for that anon from yesterday.

[(Anonymous)]

I wonder what their argument would be this time though? Writers don't owe you the luxury of them wanting comments or attention or readers at all?

Ah, I'm sure they'd come up with something.

[cushlamochree]

sorry about this comment, then, OP

[(Anonymous)]

*snicker*
Well played.

[cloud_riven]

You're weeeeeeeird and it frightens me. Indifference fuels your creative streaks, and it confuses and terrifies me because it's weeeeeeeiiiirrrrd.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, really. You don't have to post to NOT get comments. In fact, if the anon really doesn't want comments, maybe stop being creative at all. Someone might be tempted, you know. Let's not tempt fate. Fate is evil.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm shipping you with that secret maker from yesterday.

[silverr]

I literally LOL'd at this.

[(Anonymous)]

I've been tempted to do something like this.

I became relatively well-known within my last fandom, but the pressure of that really got to me. There's been something very alluring about the thought of just starting over on an anon meme or something and completely taking the pressure of having my 'name' attached to something off my work.

I'd like to just enjoy the writing and sharing fanfic part without necessarily having a big deal made out of it again, but under my current/last pseud there's no way that could happen. And while I don't really care about comments I do like the concept of sharing the love for a fandom or characters via fanwork, hence why I post the fic and don't just squirrel it away on my harddrive.

I worry my fic style would out me though, so that's why I never did.

[(Anonymous)]

If you were well-known then your worries may not be entirely unfounded, but I think a lot of people aren't as good at recognizing writing styles as they think they are. Something as simple as not using the tense you habitually use can totally throw them off.

[(Anonymous)]

Well, when I get no comments, I assume it's just because my work is so damn good, it gets overlooked because readers are swarming to the super-commented (you know what kind--it's not even that good, it just hits everything you like) fic.

//It's either that or shrug it off.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't believe you.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm confused why you post then? If you don't want comments, why don't you just write the fics and keep them for yourself? It seems like a lot of extra effort for something you don't want anyway.

[(Anonymous)]

Thank you! I feel similarly. It's a lot of "pay attention to me! but don't look like you're doing it."

I side-eye this anon hard.