[ SECRET POST #3378 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3378 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

This is not really relevant to the OP topic, but somewhat related. I never understood why fic writers get so butthurt when somebody cares if an abandoned fic will be continued. Like, I get not wanting to feel like you owe readers anything but some authors are downright pissed that one of their fics are more successful and anticipated than other stuff they write.

The other day someone, with no ill-intent, asked an author if they had any plans on finishing a certain fic and they freaked out that people cared about that fic and deleted it on the spot. Why are so many writers so fucking sensitive and butthurt that people actually liked their stuff?

Seriously, this tumblr generation that gets triggered by every damn thing needs to be sent to their own little island where nothing can hurt their delicate feelings.

[(Anonymous)]

maybe because sometimes these conversations get started by people like you, who fairly clearly reads like an asshole.

[(Anonymous)]

Well, for starters, using a loaded word like "butthurt" implies you don't believe there could possibly be a good reason, so I can't imagine why I should tell you.

You sound like the kind of person who only understands these things via personal experience, so I respectfully suggest you write a popular WIP and see for yourself what happens when you stop updating it.

[diet_poison]

like I get what you're saying and agree that people can be assholes about WIPs, but you have to admit deleting an entire fic because someone asked you about it is way overreacting

[(Anonymous)]

Deleting a fic because one person asked about it is overreacting.

Deleting a fic because you've had several hundred inquiries about it, most of them from the same two or three people who are verbally abusive and wish injury or illness on you because you've put down that WIP for a while, though?

I've been pushed to the point of pulling all my fandom shit because it's attracted the notice of some legitimately horrible human beings and I was just sick of dealing with them before. In light of that, it's pretty easy to believe that it wasn't so much that one comment that made the writer yank that fic as it was that the timing of that one comment made it the proverbial straw that broke the camel's back.

[diet_poison]

Ok, that's fair.

[(Anonymous)]

What this nonny said.

I haven't had the experience of being harassed about a multi-chapter WIP, but I know someone who has, and she reacted by pulling ALL her fic. When I got the full story from her, and learned just how nasty it got, I didn't blame her in the least. (She quietly reuploaded most of it to AO3 a few years later. So far her tormenters don't seem to have spotted it, yay.)

[(Anonymous)]

+100000

[(Anonymous)]

I've always thought that some people must be a lot more sensitive than others when it comes to feeling that people expect things of them and are pushing responsibilities on them.

Personally, I'm someone who finds it very easy to just not take responsibility for things I'm not responsible for. If I'm not duty bound, nobody can make me feel duty bound. And that's a common enough way to be. But I think some people have a hair trigger for feelings of obligation. So they end up responding to a comment like, "OMG, I'm loving this, do you think you're going to finish it?" by feeling as though they're obligated to finish it. That doesn't really make sense, and it's not fair to take those personal feelings out on the commenter, but sometimes people do anyway.

[(Anonymous)]

Tangentially to your tangent: I've written a number of stories in a semi-popular fandom. Of my two personal favorites, one is the most successful fic I've written in that fandom by far, and the other is the least successful fic I've ever written in that fandom. I mean, it's less popular than remixes. It's less popular than death fic. It's a lead balloon, and I don't understand why, because I personally love it.

Connecting back to your main point: What have I done about this absolute travesty? Nothing. Because if readers don't love my (beautifully constructed, in character, neatly plotted) fic, and they do love my (rushed because I procrastinated and it doesn't even have a proper ending) remix in the same fandom, that's totally their prerogative. I may have certain opinions about their tastes, but in the end, that's all they are: opinions. And their opinions obviously differ from mine, and that's okay.

[(Anonymous)]

I know I'm super late to the party, but I think almost every fanfic writer I've talked to has had this happen to them. It seems the more you love and are proud of a fic, the less fandom at large seem to like it.

It happens to me on a regular basis. Spent months lovingly crafting and researching a fic? Only the diehards respond. Write something random I tossed off in a night? Instant popularity!

You're definitely not alone.