[ SECRET POST #3526 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3526 ⌋

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

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02.
[Feed The Birds, from Mary Poppins]


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03.
(Once Upon A Time)


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04.
[ Dota 2 esport ]


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05.
[Great British Bake Off, series 3]


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06. http://i.imgur.com/82bEEum.png
[The Private Report on My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness; linked for nudity/implied porn, illustrated]


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07.
[We Happy Few]


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08.
[Stranger Things]














Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 32 secrets from Secret Submission Post #504.
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.

Comments

[fscom]

01. https://i.imgur.com/VJ7qe5B.jpg

[(Anonymous)]

I agree, albeit not because I particularly care about WIPs personally. I hate it because it's just inaccurate. Too much of a pedant.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, fuck people who do that!

[(Anonymous)]

That annoys me at best, pisses me off at worst.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't like it either bc it makes checking which fics you have read and which you haven't confusing, but I always assumed it was an honest mistake. I didn't think people did it on purpose.

[(Anonymous)]

Oh my god, right?! That is bullshit!

[(Anonymous)]

Poor thing!

[kaijinscendre]

I never read WIPs anymore. Except for 1-2 authors that I trust to finish their fics.

[(Anonymous)]

If its on AO3 I usually assume its a mistake - they forgot to check the "This work has multple chapters" box

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, I just figure they don't know how to use the site, not just that they're trying to trick people.

[(Anonymous)]

+1

A similar thing happens sometimes with finished wips that still have the /? because the author doesn't know how (or knows but forgets) to change it.

[diet_poison]

That is pretty dumb if people do that on purpose. Maybe you could message them, frame it as a reminder/critique? ("I noticed your fic has a 'complete' chapter listing but you said more is to come - did you forget to check the WIP box [or whatever it's called]?")

[(Anonymous)]

Wow, this is super annoying. Fuck people who do this. I make it a rule not to read WIP's anymore because I've gotten burned by them in many ways. So to do this? Ugh.

[nightscale]

I wonder if it's accidental sometimes? Because I've seen fics before now posted as 1/1 when it was clearly a WiP and then maybe a day later it's tagged as 1/?.

I know I've messed up on ff.net before now and posted a one-shot as an incomplete story so it might be the same thing.

People doing that deliberately though would annoy me because generally speaking I don't read WiP's until they're completed.

[(Anonymous)]

I seem to have good luck with WIPs, or at least so many that I start wind up being finished eventually that it kind of drwns out the real disappointmemts.

[(Anonymous)]

Just one of the many tricks assholes use to try and sucker people into reading badfic. And they never admit, even to themselves, that is you need to sucker someone into reading your fic then your fic is probably not worth reading. Others are hiding main character OCs, stealth crossovers, claiming it is genfic but really it is shipping, and even if they admit a shipping fic there is the playing bait and switch with who the pairing is. Marking a WIP as a complete fic is just another dirty trick.

[(Anonymous)]

claiming it is genfic but really it is shipping

Wow, must be a {your fandom} thing. Tagging as genfic in my fandom guarantees almost no one will read it.

[(Anonymous)]

na

+1

in most of my fandoms, it's a lot more common for genfic writers to use pairing tags but not actually feature that pairing in the story in a romantic/sexual capacity (which is also kind of annoying)

[(Anonymous)]

da

That came to be a relatively common practice because there's an incredibly vocal and obnoxious subset of fandom that will completely flip their shit if there's any mention of a pairing whatsoever, even if there's no romantic or sexual focus.

It's annoying to deal with the screaming, so people started to tag a pairing if it gets even an offhand mention to explain why character X isn't around, or because there's a scene that takes place at a married couple's house.

[(Anonymous)]

I find Gen Purists just as annoying as extreme shippers.

Sure there are some shows out there (I'm thinking mostly procedurals) where the characters' personal relationships rarely get any mention. But if somebody is flipping their lid because of an offhand mention that Willow kissed Tara or that Martha and Mickey are married or that, heaven forfend, Dean flirted with a waitress, I kind of wonder how they actually watched the show to begin with.

[(Anonymous)]

Tony flirting and trying to seal the deal with Ziva is fine. Tony and Gibbs in rough gay sex in MTAC is not. Yet I have seen the latter not tagged as shipping much more often than the former. Gen fic means accepting canon relationships at the same level as canon in fic.

[(Anonymous)]

god yes.

i can see it being an easy accident, if you miss the check box when posting on Ao3, it will automatically give you a 1/1.

but it's so irritating to be on the other end.

[(Anonymous)]

I've done a version of this because I thought I'd written a one-shot that I later got inspired to continue. At that point, I changed the 1/1 to a 1/? though. I hope I didn't piss anyone off by accident. If I did, sorry!

+1

[(Anonymous)]

UGH! I hate that too. I'll check the comments to see if anyone pointed it out, and usually someone did and the author was a complete a-hole about it. I don't think it's usually a mistake like so many of the other comments here.

[(Anonymous)]

It would bother me too but I've never actually seen it.

I'm shocked this thread isn't full of WIP writers whining about entitled readers!?