[ 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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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 027 secrets from Secret Submission Post #445.
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]

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.