[ SECRET POST #2917 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2917 ⌋

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

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 040 secrets from Secret Submission Post #417.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Usually I'm pretty good detecting when someone in my fandom has this same kind of arrogant attitude. Then I proceed to block them, ignore them and overall pretend they don't exist in the fandom, no matter how good their stories/fanart supposedly are.

It gives me a huge satisfaction watching them wail and cry (and they always end doing this sooner or later) when they don't get the attention they want. :)

[(Anonymous)]

how can you sniff them out?

[(Anonymous)]

You're presuming though that everyone who feels this way, be it occasionally or permenantly, is projecting that attitude like crazy. Most reasonably adjusted people are quite capable of feeling all sorts of things they're well-aware are unpleasant, and have the maturity and self-control not to act upon them because they know it's a shitty thing to do.

[(Anonymous)]

I agree. A lot of people feel this way inside. It's really not uncommon. Most people just don't act on it, as they have enough maturity and self-control to see it's a flaw, as the OP has done.

On the other hand, the person above who claims they have infallible radar for this sort of thing, and offers themselves as some sort of righteous vigilante, seems blind to the fact that their failings in their own way may be as bad or even worse than the OPs.

[(Anonymous)]

I didn't claim I was infallible, just pretty good.

And yeah, while I admit I might be as bad as OP, but I just got tired of listening to very specific people 24/7 complain whyyy no one read their stuff, why everyone was so blind to their greatness, whyyy popular but in their opinion shitty fic got all the attention while theirs is 100X better but gets so few comments, whyyyy if they spend so many hours writing and editing and stuff, so yeah, now I block people and I'm gonna keep doing it.

(Also, my fandom is not very big, so that was a factor in me following the wrong people until I got fed up).

[(Anonymous)]

I used to follow a writer of original fiction who was like this--her work was Better! Than! Everyone's, so clearly publishers were stupid for not publishing it. And test readers were stupid for pointing out flaws. And editors she hired to help her were stupid for seeing things she could fix.

Her work read like promising first drafts that she refused to improve, and she wailed and ranted CONSTANTLY about how unfair it was that other, lesser writers (EVERYONE) had success when she should be world-famous, and she flatly refused to accept help, consider she still had anything to learn, or think of the possibility anyone else in the world might know a crappy story when she asked them to read it.

For a while she was a horrific but amusing cautionary tale, then the combination of her pain and her arrogance got to me and I just quit reading her blog. I did find out she got a book published by a small publisher and I think finally self-published another couple. She leaves glowing reviews for herself (under her other pen name) on Goodreads and complains about the lack of reviews and purchases otherwise, so little has changed.

If the fic writers you refer to are like her, I'd block them, too. It's soul-sucking.

[(Anonymous)]

Probably not everyone feels this way, but then, either I've been horribly lucky in finding the ones who do act upon those feelings, or my fandom attracts that sort of people, idk.

[(Anonymous)]

Your attitude about the whole thing sounds just as arrogant and self-important.

But at least the secret poster is aware that there's something wrong with their attitude.
So they're making far more progress than you.

[(Anonymous)]

Ohh, you've really put me in my place. Now I've seen the error of my ways and see why I'm such a horrible person for not wanting to read about someone complaining how they are unnapreciated by the populace.

Please enlighten me more.

[(Anonymous)]

QED

[(Anonymous)]

How do you know when they wail and cry if you block and ignore them tho

[(Anonymous)]

They sometimes complain on community blogs or fandom secret blogs.

[(Anonymous)]

You're just one person, though. And so you're one person not talking to them - how would they even notice someone NOT talking about them? Or are you a BNF or something?