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case) wrote in
fandomsecrets2016-04-03 04:00 pm
[ SECRET POST #3378 ]
⌈ Secret Post #3378 ⌋
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Notes:
Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 053 secrets from Secret Submission Post #483.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Re: The only one overreacting here is YOU. Holy shit.
While it's likely that one secret was all or most of OP's motivation for writing this one, we really can't prove it, and it doesn't mean their opinion/reaction didn't already exist before that.
You have the "right" to be anxious about anything and as long as it doesn't cross into entitlement territory I don't see the problem. Do you inform your favorite authors that their failure to complete a series they've been working on is triggering your anxiety? I doubt it. That would be a really unfair thing to do, because it's making them emotionally indebted to you for something that was theirs to begin with.
And I'm really not seeing any malice or spite. Some snark in the last bit but it's honestly way milder than some secrets that don't get this level of vitriolic response. Malice though? Really? You must be squinting pretty hard. There's a reason they're fandom SECRETS - people think things like this in their head all the time (I am no better than OP and neither are you); it's not the same as saying it directly to someone to whom you think it applies.
Re: The only one overreacting here is YOU. Holy shit.
(Anonymous) 2016-04-04 01:00 pm (UTC)(link)Yup, nothing hateful or vitriolic about hurling that at someone with a mental illness.
I can't figure out if you're actually that thick or if you agree with OP that mentally ill people just need to stop being babies and act normal.
Those are literally the only two reasons for your behavior in this thread: ignorance or hate. Which is it?
Re: The only one overreacting here is YOU. Holy shit.
(Anonymous) 2016-04-04 01:07 pm (UTC)(link)Re: The only one overreacting here is YOU. Holy shit.
OP could have been nicer, but again, there is a reason stuff like this is posted as a secret. I think their frustration with other people acting entitled and emotionally blackmailing fic writers over WIPs is understandable. They weren't being hateful towards mental illjess, in my interpretation (correct me if wrong, OP?) but rather exasperated and snarky towards a particular subgroup of people as defined by their choices - not even a subgroup, really, as people who do not have mental illness, or have an illness that has nothing to do with their fic reading experience, also do this.