[ SECRET POST #3154 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3154 ⌋

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 #451.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

It's not uncommon for authors to have a WIP rated PG or PG13 and not update the rating until they actually post the chapter with sex in it, so yeah, in addition to proper tagging, it's probably a good idea to put a note up somewhere that says that rating is never going to change.

Also: okay, you are interested in emotional resolution/catharsis. You may or may not be pulling this off. Some people wouldn't be satisfied regardless, especially in the fandom culture you described, but your description of emotional resolution here bored me to fucking tears. What about a massive romantic sacrifice? A heavily fraught show of trust? An exchange of hugely meaningful/personal tokens? A proposal/wedding/finding a fucking house/some other I Want To Spend The Rest Of My Life With You moment/sign/discussion.

Like. I'm not saying you couldn't write a scene with handholding and enough strong emotions and character impact to be satisfying after a 50K buildup, but just 'and then they were together and kissed, The End' is going to disappoint a lot of people, porn or no porn.

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

anon above you

I agree here. To me it's a, "I read 175 pages of my OTP for that? Meh." Sort of ending. Give me something to work with, some hope, some commitment. I probably wouldn't read anything else by that writer with so little payout.

I wish I could see the stories in question to actually know what is going on, is there more tension or what.

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

DA-- to me it depends on how shippy the fic is. I write gen adventures with a lot of family elements, and while a lot of people comment that they enjoy the pairing, I don't think I have ever gotten a complaint about the lack of sex onscreen. The tone of the stories seems to make it clear there won't be sex scenes, which I don't write well anyway, and the romantic pairings aren't the point of the stories. So maybe it's a tone thing, and there's something implied to readers and not delivered on?

Or maybe most other stories about that pairing include sex so readers expect it from all stories about them? That would be harder to work with.