[ SECRET POST #3314 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3314 ⌋

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

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Comments

NYART

[(Anonymous)]

What about people whose publishers tell them to take down their fic,

That is extenuating circumstances, and I definitely understand that. It's the "how dare you share this with others!" attitude towards private sharing. How will the big bad publisher know if people are e-mail circulating a story? Do you really think they'll track the e-mails of every single person who ever commented on a fic? And then how do they catch the people who have read the fic and downloaded a copy, but never left a footprint?

See how over-the-top that sounds? A publisher isn't going to care about private circulation. They have bigger fish to fry.

or stuff they said or did in the past that they don't want linked to them now for reasons that have less to do with fanfiction and more with the topics of some of their writing.

So personal regret trumps fandom history. Got it.

I mean, I have a fic out there I would love to just delete. It's crappy compared to the way I write now. It's unfinished, and currently dangling on a cliffhanger for more than a decade. But it was a trope starter in my fandom, and it still gets hits. I recognize it's a piece of fandom now. Like any work of art, once it's out in the public, it is NOT solely the author's anymore. It has a place in history, however small, and destroying that leaves the world a little poorer for the people for whom it was important.

/takes fanfic way too seriously, and knows it

Re: NYART

[(Anonymous)]

/takes fanfic way too seriously, and knows it

That's fine. You're not the only one. There are a lot of us.

I'm an author myself and I would never remove my fanfiction from the web. When I got to the point that I couldn't even think about my earliest fics without cringing I adopted a new username and cut all ties with the other one (I made a 'goodbye, fandom' post and everything). Only a handful of people know I used to be XXX, and only because I told them.

The fics I wrote back in the day still get an astonishing amount of hits, for whatever reason, and I'd feel like the biggest asshole if I deleted them. I understand what it feels like to see a fic being praised to high heaven, to see it being glorified as if it were a friggin' holy artifact, and to feel awful regret because it's no longer available to read. You end up feeling like you missed out on something amazing, something important, and yeah, I could never do that to the fans/friends who've supported me for so many years.