[ SECRET POST #2988 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2988 ⌋

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

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Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 050 secrets from Secret Submission Post #427.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 1 2 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

Re: I'll just be honest

[solticisekf]

Posting about personal things, including emotions - love and rage that the poster feels - forges a personal connection between the poster and the readers. So readers (or visitors) start to care about this person. They feel like they know them. They might strike a conversation, comment on some stuff with congratulations or condolences... This is in response to your last paragraph as well. Did you notice that some people don't create any fanworks or meta but still have a lot of friends, because they talk with people, comment on their stuff and, basically, network?

Even when it's just an A/N in a fic, many readers will feel for an author as long as they don't have a consumerist attitude, you know the one, the one when a reader tells "update soon, where's update, you should write about my fave char, write moar!".

BNFs are in a category of their own. Tons of people will defend them. Even when they're in the wrong. In my native tongue we call these defenders "hamsters". Hamsters agree with every word a BNF speaks, praise everything they do and run to their defence. I've seen this a lot in fandom, it's pretty funny.

About caring... Take me. I don't know how to connect to people on a personal level, so no on curr about my personal life just because - as long as it doesn't correspond with anything in their life, like, I don't know, a post about hating exams on a Finals week. But I know people who's personality shines in their online presence, people who are willing to share about themselves. Some people even write largely about their IRL, and people read them. >_> It's especially handy for multifandom folk who fandom hop a lot. People stay with them because they are interested in their life, their style and their personality.

And lastly to put something optimistic here, fans help other fans with their money. Often just because the person in need is in the same fandom/ship or some of your online friends know this person. I think it's awesome.