[ SECRET POST #3128 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3128 ⌋

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

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[X-Men]


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03.
[Hayley Atwell]


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04.
[Infamous]


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05.
[Tokyo Mew Mew]


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06.
[Peep Show]


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07.
[Rhett & Link/Good Mythical Morning]


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08.
[Brooklyn Nine Nine]


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09.
[Lava]


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10.
[Steven Universe]










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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I dunno. I think this is because in fanfic, the romance is the plot, which is great if like you, you're reading it for the romance but kind of crappy if you want plot in addition to the romance. IME, fanfic isn't very good at that.

[ketita]

Agreed. That's part of the reason I find it very hard to enjoy long shippy fics - they have no plot outside the romance, nothing happens, and then a lot of the romance has to be pushed along by all this silly internal drama (where one good external plot would have done the job and been 100% less soap opera-ish).

But I also agree with what people said above, that in fic you come in already invested in the pairing so the author doesn't have nearly as hard a 'sell'.

[(Anonymous)]

Man, there's one author I love and hate. They start out with fantastic interesting plots and lots of stuff going on and then the characters get together and the plot just... fizzles out and it's 3-4 more chapters of the characters having sex, talking about having sex, wanting to have sex, etc. And then it ends.

They're the only one I am sitting there rooting for the characters not to get together yet, because I want to see what's going to happen plot wise.

Then again I stopped reading when they wrote a fic that was.... weird and "Oh no, Character isn't gay, he's demisexual for this one other dude" that left a bad taste in my mouth.

[(Anonymous)]

Fanfic isn't very good at that NOW. However go back a bit and it was very good at it. We need to work out why current writers are not capable of doing that, and once we've realized the answer is AO3 and Tumblr do something about it. AO3 was the worst thing to happen to fanfiction, its echo chamber persuaded a lot of smut writers and huggyfic writers that they were actually good at writing and gave them a safe base to attack everyone else from. In a less protected forum, where you either gave feedback or nothing at all (fucking useless kudos system), they'd be forced to raise their game considerably. Even ff.net is producing better writers than AO3 right now.

[(Anonymous)]

With respect, you sound like a total crank, which makes it hard to take you seriously,

[(Anonymous)]

Fanfic isn't very good at that NOW. However go back a bit and it was very good at it. We need to work out why current writers are not capable of doing that, and once we've realized the answer is AO3 and Tumblr do something about it.

See, if you'd just stuck with griping about it I would have sympathized with you. But this whole "we need to do something about it" bit is unbelievably self-entitled. Fic writers write for FREE, because they WANT TO, and because they have ideas about the characters that they want to see realized. It's a HOBBY. It doesn't cater to any one person's tastes specifically (unless it's a gift fic), and it shouldn't be expected to. You may as well be saying, "The person at work who keeps baking cookies and leaving them in the break room has to be STOPPED. We need to let them know that I don't like cookies and they need to start baking brownies instead."

[(Anonymous)]

in fanfic, the romance is the plot, which is great if like you, you're reading it for the romance but kind of crappy if you want plot in addition to the romance. IME, fanfic isn't very good at that.

Sigh. This is one of the things I miss most about The X-Files fandom. A lot of XF fanfic managed to do plot AND shipping, together in one fic, far better and more often than it's done in any other fandoms I've been in.