[ SECRET POST #3056 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3056 ⌋

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

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 062 secrets from Secret Submission Post #437.
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.

Comments

[fscom]

10. http://i.imgur.com/xUibC5O.png

[(Anonymous)]

You know, that would be kind of awful, if you think about it.

I hope you can find something else that you respond to in the same way. I guess if it happened once, it can always happen again.

[fingalsanteater]

i just wanna know what fic. i'm not really in this fandom.

[eve_n_furter]

Same here.

[(Anonymous)]

DA

OP said pic is relevant so I'm thinking "Alone on the Water" or w/e that thing was called that had Tumblrinas floating on seas of their own tears.

...yeah, I never read it, and that would be why.

[(Anonymous)]

not OP but


Hm.. the rain in the background and the OP mentioning that it was jossed by canon, I'm gonna throw in a guess for Sink Like a Stone by pennydreadful?

[(Anonymous)]

Stupid nitpick, and not related to the secret itself, but I don't think retconned is the word you want? Unless you mean a canon event that was mentioned in the fic, and THAT was later retconned. The wording of "a retconned fic" is throwing me off.

[(Anonymous)]

yeah, they probably meant "jossed"

[(Anonymous)]

Maybe the author went back and changed something and the original version is not available anywhere? That was my first thought, an any rate, but yeah, jossed by subsequent developments on the show is probably more likely what OP was going for.

[(Anonymous)]

A lot of times when I get these reactions to fic/movies/books its more about me than it is about the work itself.

[(Anonymous)]

You know what, I've felt that way, about various things. You grow out of it... and new things come along.

[(Anonymous)]

if the fic in question is Alone on the Water then lol

[(Anonymous)]

lmfao, now I really want to know if that was it

[(Anonymous)]

What's Alone on the Water, and why is it stupid?

[intrigueing]

You can't toss this out and then not tell us what the fic is, OP!

Can't you just re-read the fic?

[(Anonymous)]

Why do you have to chase that feeling elsewhere when you can just re-read that fic itself?

Re: Can't you just re-read the fic?

[(Anonymous)]

They said it was retconned/jossed - that implies it was dramatic back then and isn't now. Plus if there was, like, a huge emotional moment it would definitely lessen the impact the more you re-read it.

Re: Can't you just re-read the fic?

[diet_poison]

Re-reading/re-watching/re-playing/etc. rarely has the same emotional impact as doing a thing for the first time.

(At least that's true for many people, maybe not all?)

[(Anonymous)]

I had the same kind of reaction to a long-since jossed Harry Potter fic. I didn't even know fiction COULD make me feel like that, like my whole view of my place in the world was changed, instead of just loving the story as a thing outside me.

Honestly I believe that kind of feeling is more likely to come from certain spheres of fanfic, although I have a hard time articulating why. There's more space for using pre-existing emotional weight to build and explore themes (that are more likely to match our own generation's anxieties) and create an effect, rather than the sort of plot-dominant story construction that most media follows. IDK, maybe that's bullshit.

I don't think it detracts from loving other things to have that reaction, no matter what caused it. And you'll never know if something else will effect you like that unless you keep reading!

[intrigueing]

Do you remember the title of the Harry Potter fic or still have the link?

Honestly I believe that kind of feeling is more likely to come from certain spheres of fanfic, although I have a hard time articulating why. There's more space for using pre-existing emotional weight to build and explore themes (that are more likely to match our own generation's anxieties) and create an effect, rather than the sort of plot-dominant story construction that most media follows. IDK, maybe that's bullshit.

I don't think that's bullshit at all, I think that's exactly right. Though I dunno about the "own generation's anxieties" thing. (I do think there's definitely a "more geared towards female anxieties" thing though, which tends to be neglected in original stories that aren't blatantly "women's fiction" or whatever.)

[(Anonymous)]

There's a tumblr post I like that I think really sums up why fic can be so powerful - http://i.imgur.com/NOINen5.png

But, seriously though, I love it. Fic builds on something we know and may have preconceived notions about, and tries to improve it. To better representation, or even just try on different things. It's an affectionate but non-passive way of interacting with our media; I think ""traditional"" fandom, that was for the most part dominated, was largely obsessed with facts and knowing every detail and 'if you can't name who guest starred in episode 20 of season 7 you're not a real fan", and holding up the creators as all powerful. Fic and modern fandom is, "I love this. I want it to be better."

[eve_n_furter]

This is the sort of fic I collect and revisit sometimes. They might not do their thing again, but it's nice to remember the effect they had. It's like the love song you cried over as a teen: don't you still love it a bit and feel happy about the person you were back then?

[(Anonymous)]

How paradoxical it is to seek in reality for the pictures that are stored in one's memory, which must inevitably lose the charm that comes to them from memory itself and from their not being apprehended by the senses. The reality that I had known no longer existed. It sufficed that Mme. Swann did not appear, in the same attire and at the same moment, for the whole avenue to be altered. The places that we have known belong now only to the little world of space on which we map them for our own convenience. None of them was ever more than a thin slice, held between the contiguous impressions that composed our life at that time; remembrance of a particular form is but regret for a particular moment; and houses, roads, avenues are as fugitive, alas, as the years.

[(Anonymous)]

Proust's Du côté de chez Swann, right?

[(Anonymous)]

Yep. My favorite piece of romance literature of all time is a slash fic for a first person shooter online game. It was simply amazing in all aspect.