[ SECRET POST #2923 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2923 ⌋

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

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 065 secrets from Secret Submission Post #418.
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

[lb_lee]

Oof. I hadn't even thought of that.

I mean, I'm pretty prolific--I pounded out something like sixty stories last year, and drew something like thirty pages of comics on top of it, but two a week? I'd be chargrilled in no time with that schedule.

But then again, I'm still poking around with around 250 followers since I joined back in 2011, so obviously I don't know how to tumblr. I'm bad at fandom, I don't care for their brand of social justice, so I mostly just reblog comics I think other people would like, and educational stuff.

[ketita]

See, for a time I was doing ok - I wrote about 140k in the past year, until writer's block kicked in. But I tend to write longer stuff (no less than 5k a chapter, preference for 10k), and plotty stuff, and you just can't keep that stuff going with such a schedule, you know?

I've got a few more followers than you, but not nearly as many as the fanartists who post porn every week, or the ship rebloggers.

ugh tumblr social justice is one of the stupidest things I've encountered.

[lb_lee]

Oof. Yeah, I write REALLY short, because it's cheaper for my fans. I have become a MASTER of the 1000 word story. It's become kinda embarrassing, because I have a big bookslab on the backburner, but I've gotten so used to writing short, 100k words just sounds absurd!

And yeah, I would NEVER want to keep to that kind of schedule.

I am actually REALLY bad at fanart and fanfic, though people still commission me for it sometimes. When I do write it, I mostly enjoy writing about random unimportant characters going about their lives, ignoring the big epic quest or whatever.

Tumblr social justice... again, the problem is with the UI, which means everything just kinda is all kludged together, and there's no way to filter anything. So there's some really good stuff, but it's mixed in with the really, really bad stuff, and good luck ever finding it again.

WHY tumblr because social justice web hub, when its design is so antithetical to conversation, growth, and changing of opinion, is beyond me.

[(Anonymous)]

DA

Another issue with the social justice posts and the overall interface is just how easy it is to disseminate misinformation, un/edited posts etc.

If I see one more lengthy and redundant rant about a post/issue/whatever that was resolved years ago -- and could've been easily found to be the case, seeing as nine times out of ten the original post doesn't even exist anymore -- spamming my dash, I'll start throwing things.

[lb_lee]

OH GOD I HATE THAT. I said to another anon above, but my big crunch point was when I found myself debunking this stupid idea that a certain word had been coined by a certain marginalized population, and anyone else using it was being... I dunno, appropriative, oppressive, BAD.

I was able to debunk it with FIVE SECONDS on fucking PubMed.

Like, I'm glad I got anons asking me about it, rather than just swallowing it wholesale, but JESUS CHRIST PEOPLE.

Especially since I suspect the only reason I got away with debunking it was because I had the correct assortment of identity labels and street cred.

And now you've got the whole Supernatural fake suicide hysteria and uuuuugh. Thank god I'm not in fandom, yo.

[(Anonymous)]

DA - Oh, I hate that. Tumblr's a terrrible place for that because it's a young demographic full of people would rather be outraged than do their own research to check if something is true or not.

[lb_lee]

Yeah. Though I am really glad those kids found me knowledgeable enough to ask my opinion, so at least they TRIED to get a second opinion.

And to be fair, while it was SIMPLE to debunk it, it did require a little bit of ingenuity regarding database searches. I can't blame for Random Tumblr Kid to not want to risk getting charbroiled by stating something unpopular when they were already being painted as "the oppressor." It's a really easy Catch-22, because it implies that any skepticism you have is purely because of internalized bigotry, rather than... you know, reason.

[ketita]

I'd say I miss the days when people appreciated long fic, but it's not like there are no long fics in my fandom. They just update at the speed of light, have tons of smut, and the plot is rather like a soap-opera: rife with drama, very little content, and everybody behaves like a teenager.

The thing is that on tumblr, when people spread misinformation it can never become a dialogue, and if you see some post with wrong information going around, even if you correct it, it'll probably never reach the 20k people who already reblogged and moved on.

[lb_lee]

Yeah, it's not fic's fault. I'm just bad at fandom in general, and equally bad at reading long things on a screen. Same reason I don't do ebooks.

Tumblr's UI has spawned many a rant from me.