[ SECRET POST #2960 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2960 ⌋

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

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Notes:

Better early than late!

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 034 secrets from Secret Submission Post #423.
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.

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Transcript

[(Anonymous)]

Image: a person [anon note: for whatever reason, I can’t help but seeing him as Frodo] at the beach, with his head stuck into the sand

Text: It’s been a couple of years since I quit writing fic, and my old stories give me so much embarrassment I can barely look at them. I’d wipe every one of them off the face of the internet, if only I weren’t fundamentally opposed to authors pulling that shit.

[Transcriber’s note: thank you for leaving the fic up. Even if you can’t stand to look at it anymore, it could still be someone’s favorite story.]

OP

[(Anonymous)]

LOL Frodo? Must be the outfit, the jacket and the cropped pants do look awfully Hobbity.

Anyway, I'm only responding to you, good scribe, because I arrived late and this thread has obviously gone somewhere... unintended. People can take offense at the weirdest things.

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

Fanfic deletion has long been a topic of heated contention in fandom. It's... really not weird at all that so many people got their hackles up over this secret.

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

Still not a hill I'd want to die on, nope.

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

Nor I. I just find it hard to believe that someone could have such a strong opinion on the subject as to be "fundamentally opposed" to people deleting their fics, and yet somehow not realize that making a secret saying as much could spawn wank.

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

Hyperbole.

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

I don't really buy it.

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

LOL okay my good skeptic.

But even disregarding that, this is dumb as all hell because there actually are 2 separate issues being contested here:

1) If asked, "Do you think authors should delete old fics out of embarrassment?" I and a lot of people would say, "No! Argh, I hate that, happens to me all the time!" I might even say I feel... strongly about this? Like, fundamentally strong? (No, not really, it's a purely emotional preference.)

2) However, if asked, "Do you think authors are allowed to delete old fics for their own reasons?" then of course we'd say, "...sure. That's their right, even if we don't like it." You can make a morality debate out of this second question if you really really want to but that wasn't the issue in the beginning.