[ SECRET POST #3116 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3116 ⌋

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

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[Fire Emblem: Fates]


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[Rebecca Black, Friday]


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[fscom]

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Transcript by OP

[fscom]

Collapsed for length.

[fscom]

About a decade ago, I would copy/paste fanfic into a word document and print it at the school library so I could read it in class, or at home without dial-up.

One of these fic was Cake. It blew me away. It was by turns subtly unsettling and starkly horrific.
I re-read my printed copy over and over, and even listed it as my favorite fic on my blog.

Last week I decided to read it again for the first time in years. I was worried that now I'd find aspects problematic, like the parts with nonwhite cultures, or Blair getting baptized so he can travel with missionaries. But all that seemed fine as I reread. Then I got to the bottom of the website and discovered a link to part 2!

It turns out I'd only ever read the first of three parts. I don't know how I missed the link when I initially copy/pasted it ten years ago.

I was excited to finally finish the story, but the more I read the less perfect it became. When it was only part one, it was a story about past and present trauma closing in on Blair as he tried to keep sane, with no real resolution. It was about horror threatening to overwhelm mundane day-to-day life. It was abstract and atmospheric.

Looking back, it's weird that I thought that was a complete story. But I did, and I liked it bettter that way.

[kaijinscendre]

I still have a flash drive full of copied fanfic because I the internet at my house was terrible. I used to have them on floppy disks but well, those are not used anymore. I also used to copy/paste fanfic to myself so I could read them in my email at school!

OP

[(Anonymous)]

I... still actually copy/paste fic into my e-mail so I can read it at work, actually. Hey, my last employee evaluation was stellar, so it can't be hurting my performance too much, right?

Ah, the days of floppy disks. Flash drives were such a revelation!

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

Or your manager is very unobservant.

Honestly, all the "I read/write/surf for hours at work" comments on here piss me the hell off as I work 50-60 hours a week with barely enough time to eat lunch at my desk in order to provide an essential public service.

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

Well, maybe our jobs are structured very differently? Sometimes I have to man phones, and I'm stuck at a desk with little else to do.

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, mebbe. Not aimed at you personally, I am just sometimes so ground down by it all. Sigh.

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

I'm sorry your job is grinding you down. I hope things improve.

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

Thanks. I do have supportive colleagues, that's one good thing.

[esteefee]

I loved Cake, OP. I agree with you there about the first part being tightest, but I will never give up any bit of what Martha wrote, so.

You do know Cake is part of a trilogy of stories, as well, right? :D

OP

[(Anonymous)]

Haha, I do know it's part of a trilogy ;-) I should reread Snake Oil at some point, but it freaked me out so much the first time that I'm nervous. I like "Ordeal" too, but it's probably my least favorite of the three, though I like the scene where several football players (I think?) come to help Blair move out, and get really protective of him towards Jim.

"Planks" is such a masterwork of h/c. That's the only one I've reread several times.

Come to think of it, I think I came to The Sentinel through Martha's fic. I read her SG1 fics, and then started reading the Sentinel fic when I ran out, even though I hadn't seen the show.

Do you have a favorite fic of hers?

Re: OP

[esteefee]

I dearly love Snake Oil for the creepy stuff. But the language in The Portable Jack Kerouac really moved me.

[lirren]

I completely agree with you, OP. This isn't even the first thing she's said/done that has made me angry, but it's the first one that has affected me so personally.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm just impressed by your chutzpah in printing out (I assume porny) fanfic using school equipment.

Sometimes authors explain too much. I've felt entirely satisfied by many fics on AO3, before I saw it was just the first chapter.

OP

[(Anonymous)]

Well, most of it was gen fic, actually. "Cake" is gen, although as smarmy as a fic can get before crossing into slash.

Not that that makes printing out fic at school much better. I wasn't a great student.