[ SECRET POST #2949 ]

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⌈ 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

Re: Weirdest con crit you've ever gotten?

[(Anonymous)]

I don't know if it's weird or just par for the course with some readers, but I've had a couple of baffling comments that make me think the person commenting either mistook my fic for another they read, or just got it so horribly wrong that it may as well have been.

I don't mean in the "omg you just don't get my genius!!!" way, I mean people who have commented on fic-events that literally didn't happen, or quite obviously happened in a different way.

There was one commenter who hated my top/bottom choice in one scene to the point I thought they'd pass out they sounded so angry. It just left me bewildered because a) the scene that made them angry wasn't even a penetrative sex scene so there were no traditional tops/bottoms (in fact it was a virtually non-contact scene, and if you squinted hard at how it might lean towards one of the characters dominating psychologically it was STILL the top/bottom dynamic this person wanted and claimed I was denying them), and b) the crux of the entire fic (that every other person who's read it ever has understood, because it's not exactly complicated) relied on their preferred topping order but they'd sort of missed that part.

I'm all for concrit, but even the best writer in the world can't fix something that never actually happened in their story.

Re: Weirdest con crit you've ever gotten?

[nanslice]

Oh wow. You win. That's really weird. I guess maybe they were too impatient to actually read the thing and then got super offended that someone dare write something in a different shipping order.

Re: Weirdest con crit you've ever gotten?

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

Funnily enough, I'm pretty sure that's exactly how it happened. This was a fairly long fic and I think they were getting impatient for the porn (at least they acceptably choreographed porn they approved of), so when another scene passed by - non-contact, even, hdu?! - without them getting what they wanted they just rage-quit on the fic completely. Even though the fic's whole premise revolved around the dynamic they wanted. Like, in a very, very obvious way. Glaring neon twenty-foot-signs levels of obvious from about two paragraphs in. The fic could not exist without them getting the top/bottom order they wanted, and I still don't know how they managed to miss that.

Plus the fic was clearly tagged (because I over-tag out of paranoia of this exact sort of reaction) with both permutations of the ship, and explicitly stated as being a switch-fic throughout. The switching aspect was also pretty obvious from the fic's very basis. So what they were doing reading it in the first place if they loathed A/B as much as their rant suggested and only exclusively liked B/A, I have no idea.

I usually don't even feel bothered by outright hate and flames, but this one was just so... weird. I kind of wanted to know what they thought they'd read and the mental gymnastics necessary to end up where they did, but the comment was anonymous.