[ SECRET POST #2934 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2934 ⌋

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

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Notes:

Sorry about that, working late again.

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 020 secrets from Secret Submission Post #419.
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Comments

[nightscale]

I gotta say I love the style of this secret.

But yeah it happens, I think for the most part people just like silly fluff with minor angst and some porn, and that's not a bad thing but it can get samey.

[(Anonymous)]

OP It's the blandness that gets me. There's one BNF in question who is insanely popular and writes the blandest fic possible. She'll bring out the big guns - sex pollen, non-con, mpreg, all the usual tropes. The characters will talk about it as if they're discussing mildly inconvenient weather and then will get mushy and hook up. Blandly. And then she gets a million kudos and gushing comments. I... I just...

I gotta say I love the style of this secret.

\0/ Thanks!

[nightscale]

Ahhh, that sounds like it's more of a writing issue that they might not be able to change(Well, there's the possibility that they could but if they write for fun they probably wont care. And I doubt anyone actually critiques their work since it sounds like they mostly write kinks).

I get being baffled by an author's popularity, I am by some in my fandoms but I also realise that my tastes aren't going to be everyone else's, so while I might see a particular fic as bad and OOC there will be plenty of other people who will eat it right up.(And I have no doubt that some of the tropes/kinks I like reading other people will think are awful and bad too).

It's okay to be mystified by it though OP, I think we've all been there at least once.

[(Anonymous)]

What sort of readership does you fandom have, OP?

I'd be worried that I'm generalizing if I hadn't seen the same pattern over and over in many different fandoms, but a lot of younger readers are pretty much only here for the edgy excitement of kinks/porn and the schmoop of fluff. And the things they think are quality now are going to be the things they'll be embarrassed they enjoyed in a few years when they've read more widely.

I remember the fics I used to read 10+ years ago that I thought were amazing, only to reread them a few years later (after reading a wider depth and breadth of fiction, fan and otherwise) and cringe at how gushy I'd been over them. It's just a natural progress.

I also found myself just yesterday reading a fic that was supposedly the most edgy and horrific thing a certain fandom churned out. The main demographic for this fandom is maybe the 16-20 bracket, and it was pretty bizarre how that group reacted to this fic while I (30+) was reading thinking "I've seen so much worse than this, why is this supposed to be the nightmare fuel they say?"

I also find that as my readership tends to be older and more familiar with more complex literary techniques, they leave more thoughtful and constructive feedback on my work, and that's worth a hundred pages of a BNF's "more!" reviews to me.

tl;dr - what your fandom is, and the people involved in it, will play a big factor in the sort of response different types of fic get.