[ SECRET POST #3180 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3180 ⌋

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

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[The Musketeers]


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 00 pages, 000 secrets from Secret Submission Post #454.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

Re: Does fandom as a whole actually WANT variety in its fic?

[herpymcderp]

The numbers don't lie. Fans saying "I wish there was more of x!" go out and read the same old thing everyone else is reading. Along with OP, my most viewed works are a) PWP smut that (if you erased a few key details) you could slap any other names on and it would switch out perfectly

b) Fluff that is the exact same thing as above.

My experimental pieces only get attention if I shove in a bit of a or b to literally trick people into reading them.

This situation is the exact same for every single author I have ever spoken to. We are a culture of people claiming to want art games and where Call of Duty is the best selling series of all time.

Re: Does fandom as a whole actually WANT variety in its fic?

[(Anonymous)]

ayrt

Nah. You can't determine that from sheer number because of a lot of factors. Rec lists. Staple fanon fics. If your fic ends up one of the basics of the fandom's fanon, all the newbies are going to be recced to that fic, boosting its numbers. Of course all the staples get read the most, because they're the staples that everyone reads. What fandom wants would be everything beyond that "primer to X fandom" rec list.

Re: Does fandom as a whole actually WANT variety in its fic?

[dreemyweird]

There's a difference between smut as such and generic smut. You can write porn in an imaginative, unique manner and give your heroes subtle and ingenious characterizations through their respective behaviours. You can do the same with fluff.

Re: Does fandom as a whole actually WANT variety in its fic?

[herpymcderp]

Yes. I realize that. That is what I usually do, because fic writing isn't about kudos or comments or whatnot for me, it's about improving technique until I feel like I have the chops to work on original material.

Still doesn't get as much notice as the less interesting crap I write for requests and whatnot.