[ SECRET POST #038 ]

[shahni.livejournal.com]

⌈ Secret Post #038 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe.

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 060 secrets from Secret Submission Post #006.
Secrets Not Posted: 0 broken links, 0 not!secrets, 0 not!fandom.
Next Secret Post: Tomorrow, Tuesday, February 13th.
Current Secret Submission Post: Here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[detefabula]

2. I completely disagree with this. I'm not the greatest lover of sap and fluff, I won't read it if it comprises the entirety of a story. However, I tend to view fanfiction the same way I do the novels that I buy at the bookstore. Whenever I pick up a book, my knowledge of the contents comes from the blurb on the back cover. It gives me a general idea of the story. It doesn't tell me everything that happens. It doesn't lay out which characters live, which die, and which suffer some kind of trauma. That would take away the enjoyment of reading the book. OUr lives don't come with warnings; we don't know that in Chapter 10 our best friend dies or that 11 chapters later we'll be losing the love of our life to cancer. An argument can be made that that's one of the reasons that life sucks, and I'll be the first to champion such an argument. And maybe I'm holding fanfiction to too high a standard, expecting to find some of it to be as well-written as the authors who get paid to write their stories. But warnings that take all the mystery and discovery out of stories negate the whole purpose of reading them. At least to me.


14. When I was younger, I used to believe that the lives of the characters I read about existed in some other reality. That authors were granted this look into the lives of these people,through dreams or flashes of imagination, and then wrote books about them. I guess I just wanted to believe that the people I'd grown to love were real.

15. I have no idea who this is. I've never met her, and I don't read forums, journals, or whatever else people use to discuss cosplay-related things. But looking at this picture, I have to say that I think she makes a fantastic Aeris. The world of cosplay seems to have as much drama and nonsense as the world of fandom, which is a shame. I always thought the point of cosplaying was to express creativity through making costumes and having fun through a shared love of something. Apparently not. But I still think her portrayal of Aeris is great.

[(Anonymous)]

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Her portrayal is great. But when she tries to insist that Aeris and Sephiroth are ONE TRUE LOVES!!!!1111!!! and bashes you for suggesting anything otherwise, being as well known as she is will surely backfire in her own face.

The secret isn't about her portrayal. It's about her attitude to fans who respect her and see that she's nothing she makes herself out to be.

[(Anonymous)]

What? I don't see how adding "warnings: angst, sap, fluff" is REVEALING THE ENTIRE STORY OH NOES. Where'd you get the idea that I wanted entire summaries? All I wanted was the little tags that said "hey you (me, that is), don't read this."

[klytaemnestra.livejournal.com]

15. She's pretty well-known and is one of the founders of cosplay.com

I've known her for a while now after meeting her through LotR RP on AOL years ago. She's always been very nice to me. Granted at the time I met her I had no idea who she was aside from being some random RPer who took the time one night to talk with me outside of the game. I've heard varied stories on her attitude to some people. From what I've her she used to be really kind to everyone and then fandom basically corrupted some elements. I dunno. I guess it kind of goes with the territory. Spike can vouch for that considering I'll privately snark about bad cosplayers. And I've had my share of annoying fans ... but really anyone who's going to take their time to actually speak with me and not treat me like I'm going to bite their head off, I'm generally going to be nice to them.

I dunno. People either like her or don't.