[ SECRET POST #3480 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3480 ⌋

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

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Comments

[ketita]

I'm just waiting for "imagine your OTP"s and "a story where..." type stuff to show up on AO3, and that will be the end of fanfiction forever.

[(Anonymous)]

Let me be in your fandom, because those have already shown up in most of mine on AO3.

[ketita]

oh nooooo

[feotakahari]

"Five times" is already dominating AO3, so I'd say it's too late.

[(Anonymous)]

Where did those "Five Times" fics come from, anyway?

[analise]

"Five times" fic-things have been around since livejournal days. They used to be actual memes (as opposed to what we see on bakerstreet now) that went around. I remember writing a few myself.

[arcadiaego]

Smallville fandom, I think.

[ketita]

But usually "five times" fics at least have something resembling a story.
What gets my goat is those posts that are like "imagine a fic where" and they tell you the plot. WRITE THE DAMN STORY, I'M NOT GOING TO WRITE IT FOR YOU IN MY HEAD, HOW FUCKING LAZY ARE YOU.

[(Anonymous)]

Please. How fucking lazy are readers?

[(Anonymous)]

+1

[(Anonymous)]

I've seen a lot of this in my fandom since it moved to Twitter. It's basically shared headfic. Which is OK, I guess, for those who like it... but it's not really fic. It's just a premise that the 'creator' can't be arsed to do anything with.

[(Anonymous)]

And yet, still preferable to "AU where..." and I'm like, that's not an AU, except in that it isn't the exact plot of the canon. That's just a prompt.

[ketita]

ugh, yes! The whole concept of AU has become really misused. A plot prompt is not an AU (necessarily).
Also I wish we'd bring back AT or some other use of "alternate timeline", which interests me far more than coffeeshops or high schools.

[nightscale]

I have seen these, thankfully only one or two times but it was a little confusing.

[ninety6tears]

Yeah, ugh. Why write an actual story when tumblr awards vague what-if outlines with hundreds of reblogs? /old grump

[(Anonymous)]

I thankfully haven't seen much of the "Imagine" stuff flooding my particular fandoms thus far on AO3 and FF.net.

But I HAVE been seeing a LOT of "Canon character/Reader" fic popping up on those sites :/.

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

If what the other comments say about that is right and it's little more than a summary... yeah, just write a bloody summary and stop trying to pass it as a real fic. I semi-frequently post summaries of ideas I have on my dA journal, but I remain absolutely clear that it's merely a summary of a plotbunny that cropped up.

[ketita]

what drives me crazy is the accolades. A concept post will get reblogged hundreds of times, but fics don't. The only thing this can possibly lead to is less people writing fic, because let me tell you, posting a plotbunny and moving on takes A LOT LESS EFFORT than writing thousands of words.

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

You know what I think the best use of plotbunnies is? Post a plotbunny and then open the floor for other writers to pick it up and try write an actual fic based on it.

The only thing I feel gets in the way of that is some people may not want to give up their ownership of an idea.

I admit, the stuff I have mostly posted on dA is stuff I more own myself, because it's usually stuff related to RP. I have however in the past posted plotbunnies for adoption by others, and have occasion ended up getting fic from it (quality varies).