[ SECRET POST #2949 ]

[case]

⌈ Secret Post #2949 ⌋

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

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[Persona 4]


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[Howl's Moving Castle]


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[True Detective]


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[Homestuck]


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[Jane the Virgin]


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08.
(Transformers Armada)


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12.
[Hannibal - Richard Armitage/Lee Pace]


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15. [ SPOILERS for Into the Woods ]



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16. [ SPOILERS for Dragon Age ]













Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 00 pages, 000 secrets from Secret Submission Post #421.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 - not!secrets ], [ 1 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[fscom]

02. http://i.imgur.com/RICIJsy.png

[(Anonymous)]

I miss it too. Sadly a huge portion of fandom drama these days involves either underage people which was never allowed, or topics which are decidedly unfunny and therefore not allowed (though that second one is a bit of a moot point, as even the serious-topics wank comm is also dead) :(

[lb_lee]

I honestly kind of wish there was a comm like that for my subculture. Because sure, F_W was entertaining, but it was also sometimes useful as hell, since a lot of the worst offenders were like bad pennies, coming back over and over. It's how I found out more about Andy Blake's behavior!

Unfortunately, there'd be no way to HAVE such a comm not turn into flame wars and bashing unless it was tightly modded and urgh.

--Rogan

[elialshadowpine]

There's actually a snark community called bad_penny. >_>

[feotakahari]

Isn't it still going?

[(Anonymous)]

Not really?

wank_report is still somehow active, but people rarely "clean up" any report to post it on f_w. What little gets posted usually ends on unfunny_fandom, because any little thing can make them unfunny.

[philstar22]

It still exists, but there are very few posts any more. Months go by without a post.

[(Anonymous)]

It is *technically* still going, but... the 20 posts on the front page cover all the way back to August 2013 (and a couple of those are just mod notes). Only seven posts in 2014, the most recent of those nearly five months ago. The average comments count for posts in the past couple of years has also plummeted.

So yeah, technically still going - but in reality, pretty much dead. Along with all the offshoot communities.

Sadder still, the wiki died years ago and nobody ever bothered to fix it (though I think that can be got round via wayback machine).

[dreemyweird]

I've never been a member of a fandom wank discussion comm, but tbh my morbidly curious self would be delighted if an active one existed. Too bad I only learn about these places from fandom secrets about how they're dying >.

[othellia]

So say we all.

[(Anonymous)]

Curious: does anyone still use or blog on journalfen? I used to when I was active in Torchwood fandom. I know the hot_daily is updated each day for which I am happy to see, but didn't know if there was anything else active.

[quantumreality]

I happen to have a JF blog! :)

[nanslice]

Oh man, I miss it too. It was one of the first fandom comms I really participated in and it was hilarious. Oh, Harry Potter fandom, so much wank we got out of you. ;3;

[(Anonymous)]

Even I got mentioned twice there, and I was a very, very Small Name Fan.


... then somehow I ended up becoming part of a sort of sub-group of fandom wank people.

[hwc]

I don't usually blame PCness for things I don't like, but in this case I really think FW died because of the advance of SJ(W)s. If you look back at some of the greatest wanks (like Bartending in the Dark, or His Wife? A Horse, but also stuff like Thanfiction/Andy Blake) none of those would get posted to the main comm anymore. Maybe unfunny_business, but even that seems dead these days.

Which leaves stuff like CC and MsScribe, but I feel like fandom is too widespread these days to get the same kind of following wankers like that had.

It's a real pity, FW was great to catch up on drama happening in other fandoms. :(

[(Anonymous)]

Can you imagine how later FW would have reacted to some of the Harmonian's antics? Instead of laughing at the ridiculousness of it, there probably would have been a lot of unfunny raging.

[(Anonymous)]

I was under the impression it was because so much of fandom moved to Tumblr. This isn't a "Tumblr sux and ruined fandom!!!" comment, either. It's more that the formatting doesn't lend itself to chronicling the glorious wank the way LJ and DW style posts and threads do. So you can find one person wanking, but it's way harder to track the full story. Plus it's way harder to ensure everyone being mocked is 18+.

The SJW stuff might not have helped, idk. But it seems like FW declined at the same time as fans began migrating. I'd say move FW to Tumblr too, but like 75% of the fun for me was reading the wonderfully funny comments.

[cakemage]

Right there with you, OP.

[nightscale]

I go back every now and then to see if anything new is posted and while there might be some stuff it's much quieter than it used to be, still fun reading back on some of the older posts though.

[(Anonymous)]

Ohhhh man, that comm was great in its glory days.

[(Anonymous)]

Unfortunately it died for me when the HP fandom died, because that was my only major fandom that they covered. Everything else seemed to be Supernatural and anime, although sometimes they did cover Heroes.

[(Anonymous)]

I keep seeing people try to start up a new comm on DW but no one uses it because either "DW sucks" or "no one uses DW" (what a self-fulfilling prophecy THAT is) or the mentality that ... basically no one is allowed to laugh at anything nowadays because someone is going to get offended one way or another.

[quantumreality]

There is a fandom_wank tumblr which will link back to new f_w posts should they ever get made.

Transcript

[(Anonymous)]

Image: the fandom wank header. mockity mock mockity mock mock

Text: although it was in it’s death throes for years, I’m still grieving over how it just faded away

[transcriber’s note: me too, anon :( ]

[(Anonymous)]

The best we have is a cluster of us F_Wers that have taken up residence in Wank_Report, which has now become a wank rumor mill/gossip hub of sorts. It's slow moving, but it's the best we've got.