[ SECRET POST #3257 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3257 ⌋

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

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03. [SPOILERS for Downton Abbey Season 6]



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04. [SPOILERS for Mockingjay Part 2]



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05. [SPOILERS for Undertale]



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06. [WARNING for rape]



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07. [WARNING for rape]



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08. [WARNING for child abuse]

[King Lear]


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09. [WARNING for abuse]

[Tales From the Borderlands]


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10. [WARNING for abuse, PTSD]

[Jessica Jones]









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Comments

Fanfiction Confessions

[(Anonymous)]

Can be popular, unpopular, controversial doesn't matter. Just pertaining to fanfic.

Re: Fanfiction Confessions

[(Anonymous)]

When I was in the Inuyasha fandom, I made a big stink about this one fic where Sesshoumaru gerbils kids because it was what my BNF idol wanted me to do. Secretly, though, I thought it was one of the best angst fics ever written for that fandom.

Re: Fanfiction Confessions

[(Anonymous)]

I once read a spork of a friend's fanfic. It was a train wreck I couldn't look away from.

Mostly I felt sorry for her, but I also thought the sporkers had a lot of good points... which I felt bad about.

Re: Fanfiction Confessions

[(Anonymous)]

I follow a fanfic writer who has been putting stuff out for around a decade. I started reading her stuff when I was young and thought it was awesome, but over time I realized she was a hack, and kind of crazy. So I hateread it for a while. And now when I read it I just feel sorry for her.

But I keep reading it, anyway. It's tripe, she believes some messed up shit, etc. But it's comforting, idek.

Re: Fanfiction Confessions

[(Anonymous)]

I used to enthusiastically rec stories I'd never actually read to gain fandom popularity... and it worked.

Except one time it kind of backfired when a BNF author thought I'd copied aspects of their fic, and I couldn't explain how that was impossible because I'd never read it. I had to laugh it off as 'being inspired' by the fic instead :\

Re: Fanfiction Confessions

[(Anonymous)]

When I was fifteen or sixteen, I used to write really pushy reviews to writers for not updating. :/ The thing is I wasn't a nasty teenager, so I don't know why I thought that was okay. I think everyone was doing it so I assumed it was normal, and also didn't know how hard it was to just write a chapter.

Re: Fanfiction Confessions

[(Anonymous)]

There's a fanfic I desperately want to write, but it's a longfic, centered on a ridiculously minor character, and mostly gen, the only pairing being straight-up incest with a much more popular character. I think it could be a great story, but the fandom is small and somewhat closed-ranks at this point, and I'm honestly not sure if it would go over well at all.

rageprufrock

[(Anonymous)]

Used to be my favorite fan author. I would read any story she wrote regardless of fandom, so I ended reading quite a few things for canons I wasn't familiar with. I always thought those stories were great.

After a lengthy break from fandom, I came back and attempted to read a new story she'd written for a fandom I was actually in -- and realized that her writing is actually super OOC. She has a strong writer's voice that I still enjoy, but I'm better off reading her fics for fandoms I don't recognize.

Re: Fanfiction Confessions

[skeletal_history]

I have about 12 library books out that I've renewed twice now because I "can't find time" to read them, including one for a book club I just joined and don't want to flake out on, yet every night for months now I've read X0,000-150,000-word fanfic like it's nothing.

Re: Fanfiction Confessions

[(Anonymous)]

The only novel-length fic I ever finished was the worst piece of crap ever written. I don't say that to be self-deprecating; it's genuinely horrible.

I regret nothing. :)

Re: Fanfiction Confessions

[(Anonymous)]

I never leave reviews. All the begging in the world and reassurance that authors ALWAYS love when you review no matter what even if it's just an "I love this!" will make me believe they're not going to be annoyed or secondhand embarrassed by whatever I have to say. I always feel stupid reading my own reviews when I try to write them, so why would the author feel different?

Re: Fanfiction Confessions

[ibbity]

I can't read fic based on anything that's live-action filmed (tv or movies) because I get such awful second-hand embarrassment thinking about what if the actors found this stuff. I have no such problem with fanart, though (except manips, those can diaf)

Re: Fanfiction Confessions

[(Anonymous)]

I only read fanfic that has my very specific kink. I used to read more, but that was before I realised what my kink was exactly and that I could seek it out instead of hoping a fic would allude to it.

As a result, I have more free time. Lol.

Re: Fanfiction Confessions

[(Anonymous)]

I think astolat is an awful fanfic writer. Her characters never ring true to me. Prose wise she's very good (and if I could remember the publishes under I would probably enjoy reading her books), but as a fanfic writer I think it's important to write the canon characters IC. Like another anon above said about rageprufrock: her writer voice just shines through.

(I have the same problem with rageprufrock, actually. I enjoy their AU fic, but there's always something wrong about their canon fic IMO.)

Re: Fanfiction Confessions

[feotakahari]

I read part of a BNF's early fic, then suddenly stopped reading, downvoted without so much as a comment, and unsubscribed. I have no memory of why I did this, but I haven't read any of their other fics just in case.

Re: Fanfiction Confessions

[(Anonymous)]

I don't find the presence of OCs to be a sign of a fic being bad or even something that makes me wary.

What does make me wary is OCs that seem to have no reason to be in the story, no job in the story. They either end up floundering around, being there but not doing shit.

I don't really mind if an OC has a role that turns out being major in the story as long as they're doing their part in the plot and pulling their weight. That's the way it should be for all the characters, canon or original.

I mean honestly I'd find an OC that was there but was inconsequential to the plot or anything to be just as annoying as an OC that the world revolved around and who hogs all the important jobs. "You're here but you're not doing anything, so why are you here?"

A story is like a play production. Everybody needs to play their role, and do their part. It doesn't matter if they're the new guy or the actors who are usually getting roles.

There's a difference between having a big role in the story and stealing the spotlight.

Re: Fanfiction Confessions

[(Anonymous)]

I'm not as much put off by elements in the story as I am by attitudes of the author.

The biggest thing that puts me off is when the author makes a habit of putting what they wish the canon/characters were over what they are.

I'm not saying it's bad to write what you wish happened but when you're making a character act stupid or mean because of how you feel about them and ignoring their canon personality then that's a huge turnoff.

Re: Fanfiction Confessions

[(Anonymous)]

I have no interest in long plotty fics. I won't read anything over 30k.

When I feel like something longer than that, I'd much rather read an original novel.

Re: Fanfiction Confessions

[(Anonymous)]

I'm starting to get super bitter over the fact that one can write the shittiest fic for my fandom's juggernaut pairing and get a million kudos, but other fics are mostly ingnored. I even wrote for the juggernaut pairing and posted it anon and hid it in the middle of a kinkmeme just to avoid getting the cursory kudos. Also, I'm getting bitter over the fact that no one writes for my pairing even though it's just as shippy as the juggernaut pairing. I'm trying not to be this way, but it's getting harder.

Re: Fanfiction Confessions

[(Anonymous)]

I'm one of *those* fucking authors.

You know, the ones who will start a story of epic length... and not finish it.

I swear I used to not be this way! I started the story with *every intention* of finishing it. But it just seems, now that I'm older, life gets in the way more than I care for it to. I'll start to think, "Oh, it hasn't been that long! I'll get to it in a little bit" and then realize a whole five years has gone by D:

Re: Fanfiction Confessions

[(Anonymous)]

When I first starting reading fanfic, it was all Self-insert 2nd POV/Main Character.

There was a writer who wrote about 4-6 different fics about one character, with many different OCs. The stories were full of anatomically incorrect sex and poorly characterized MC. However, due to the nature of the OCs, I often began to wonder if the author dealt with abuse herself. I hope she's okay. I also messaged her to let her know she had corrupted me (as this was the first time my 13 year old self had read anything explicit, and her stories were chock full of sex), but I was okay with that and I really liked her stories. I hoped her inbox was full, as she never responded and the fics were pretty old.

I really do hope she's okay.

Re: Fanfiction Confessions

[(Anonymous)]

I read this one long fic in one of my fandoms. I thought the writing was really good, but I vehemently disagreed with their interpretations of the characters. I don't want to read any of their other work from this fandom, but I would read the hell out of their original work. Though they don't have any posted, so oh well.

Re: Fanfiction Confessions

[philstar22]

There is this one author who I used to love. She actually got me into my current OTP. Only I kind of misread her main fic? Like, I read it as abusive and complicated but both characters still loving each other, just in a twisted way on the part of character A. Only no, she meant it differently, as just completely abusive without any actual love from character A a tall. And also, my own personal headcanons and how I interpret that characters is now so completely different from hers.

I still enjoy her fics because I love the writing style. But I don't like the straight up non-con one-shots ones as much because that isn't how I see the characters at all. I really only enjoy the ones I can interpret as more complicated so as to be closer to my own headcanon even though that isn't what she intends at all. And I really love her fics for other characters and ships still. Just not as much for my OTP. I feel bad, though, so I always still leave positive reviews.

Also it frustrates me that because she wrote the first big fic in the fandom, her interpretation is considered the main one by a lot of the fandom. Which has actually lead to a lot of the drama in the fandom. And just isn't how I see the relationship at all to the point that when people call the relationship abusive it feels wrong to me.

Re: Fanfiction Confessions

[(Anonymous)]

I think fanfic's dumb, but I eat up fanart.

Re: Fanfiction Confessions

[(Anonymous)]

i fucking love femslash fanfiction so fucking much