[ SECRET POST #3354 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3354 ⌋

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

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09. [ warning for homophobia / transphobia / misogyny take your pick, people seem to be divided on this one ]













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Comments

[likeadeuce]

So if people just stop respondibg positively to the fanfic that OP doesn't like, this email I'll motivate the writers to create a different kind of fanfic that OP *does* like? I am not convinced by this premise but I think I understand it now, thanks.

[(Anonymous)]

Sort of. I'd say that if an audience expresses explicit preference for a certain standard of writing (via kudos, reviews, rec, etc.), then authors are more likely to strive to meet that standard. But if most of the audience doesn't care about higher standards of historical accuracy and are willing to read/give kudos/review fic regardless of it containing lots of errors, many writers won't feel the need to do any better.

I'm not sure why you'd find the premise unconvincing, as it plays out the same way in so many things. Look at how TV works. The popularity of "prestige" television where the focus is on writing, acting and series-long arcs might've been kicked off by shows like critically acclaimed shows like The Wire, so the people who make television began creating shows along those lines. You get Breaking Bad, True Detective, Fargo. The popularity of Game of Thrones means you see more gritty historical stuff like The Last Kingdom and more epic fantasy genre like The Shannara Chronicles coming to TV. If audiences had said nah, we don't like all that fantasy stuff with sword and dragons, I guarantee you that you would not be seeing the Shannara series now. Because that's how TV works, it produces in response to what audiences demand, and in response to ratings. If people stopped responding positively to relatively big budget fantasy genres shows and the ratings drop into the toilet, those shows will be cancelled AND the sudden flood of similar programs will slow to a trickle.

It would work the same way in fanfiction. It already does. You've heard of juggernaut pairings, surely? They get to be juggernauts because many, many readers responded positively to fics with that pairing and demanded more. And rarepairs? Not enough demand/positive response, so there are fewer fics, because fewer authors like writing rarepairs and receiving no reaction from the fandom. So yes, if all the people who read fics for fandoms set in historical periods demanded high accuracy or they were going to go elsewhere for their fic needs, authors would rise to the challenge or write for a less demanding fandom. You might have fewer fics overall, but chances are they'd be higher quality in terms of historical detail.