[ SECRET POST #3180 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3180 ⌋

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

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Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Comments

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

[(Anonymous)]

Of course it's dependent on context and fandom.

I would say the 1940s rural Canada thing is more like the gluten-free thing, honestly. If you have to get that specific. The more adjectives you need to describe the AU and the narrower the category gets, the more readers you lose.

High school is generic high school. 1940s rural Canada is a time period, a setting, and a country. Mafia AU is generic and will get attention. Triad AU in 1950s Kowloon is going to lose people.

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

[(Anonymous)]

To add to this, the more you expect people to know, or the harder people have to try, the less they'll want to read your fic. Generally speaking.

Using the example of the "Mafia AU" only it's Triad AU in 1950s Kowloon, how many people in Teen Wolf fandom do you think are familiar with A) Triads B) mob politics in Hong Kong in the 1950s, C) Kowloon's layout, atmosphere, culture? If you need all that in order to get all the references in a piece of fanfiction, not many people are willing to put in the effort. It's so specific that it turns people off.

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

[(Anonymous)]

This. Most people don't want to have to go do research just to read a fanfic.