[ SECRET POST #3636 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3636 ⌋

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

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Comments

[fscom]

06. http://i.imgur.com/drwRFBf.jpg

[(Anonymous)]

honestly, me too. i just keep my doubts to myself though because it be super disrespect to say just in case it was true.

[(Anonymous)]

Recently an author in an old fandom of mine who was thought to be dead for the past several years came back to life. She was quite amazed that everyone had thought her dead, and that her very popular uncompleted fic has had many other fans write endings for it.

[(Anonymous)]

Maybe it's just me, but I think it's a bit rude to do that without actually ascertaining that the author is dead.

[(Anonymous)]

Is this the author of the Marriage Stone? I follow the yahoo group from a million years ago and saw the update. Very strange to me that people would assume she was dead because stepped away from fandom.

[(Anonymous)]

ayrt

Late reply, but yes it was The Marriage Stone! Yeah it's strange that people would assume that she was dead instead of the more likely assumption of real life stuff taking priority.

[nanslice]

I started reading that because of this comment. Thanks, anon! At least I'm going in with my eyes wide open to the fact that it's a wip. XD

[(Anonymous)]

Sometimes I feel doubt, but every situation is different. If the person in question isn't prone to drama, and it's made clear that their friends know their RL identity and they never wanted their family to know about their fandom activity, I don't see why you shouldn't believe it.

[(Anonymous)]

Good assumption to make. Even if the person guarded their real life identity, they're dead and have no more secrets.

[(Anonymous)]

They might have surviving family and good reasons to keep their fandom activities secret. Their choice, why disrespect it.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, not like they have family or anything.

Oh, wait, all that matters is their fandom contributions.

[dahli]

Hah, that's understandable. Sadly I had been on the other end, where I had a friend who was starting to get into fandom die suddenly. Hell, I think this is the first time I've brought it up online.

So yeah, I'm saying it sadly happens, but who knows how often.

[(Anonymous)]

How old are you, OP? I've been in fandom since the late 80s and sadly it's mostly not pseuicides these days.

[starzki]

Whenever an online friend dies, I always hope beyond hope that it's being faked. I'd rather lose someone I've cared about and have them go about their lives rather than them losing them and them really being gone. Sadly, in a couple of the cases, I've been able to find and read their obituary. :(

[(Anonymous)]

What is this painting? I know it's not Wallis's "The Death of Chatterton"...

[(Anonymous)]

Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps, "The Suicide", painted c.1836

[(Anonymous)]

Thank you, I thought maybe Werther but googling yielded nothing.

[(Anonymous)]

I used to think that but as I got older I started to lose peers and even close friends, some having passed away for ages before I even found out.

[(Anonymous)]

Logically, I can see where people could be cynical from the things I've read here on fandomsecrets.

But the fandoms I've been an active part of, I've never seen that happen. The deaths have been legitimate, and most of us knew each other in some way, shape, or form. I don't know if it's because most of my fandoms are old or what, but I've never experienced a "pseudocide", but far too many actual age-and-illness-related deaths.

[(Anonymous)]

Logically, I can see where people could be cynical from the things I've read here on fandomsecrets.

But the fandoms I've been an active part of, I've never seen that happen. The deaths have been legitimate, and most of us knew each other in some way, shape, or form. I don't know if it's because most of my fandoms are old or what, but I've never experienced a "pseudocide", but far too many actual age-and-illness-related deaths.

You shouldn't...

[(Anonymous)]

You shouldn't just assume that, really. I understand there being grounds for it with the drama that fandom can generate, but I do know of a legit case (a friend of mine's sister who deleted all but one of her stories before she died. I was not a reader of hers, I learned this after the fact after becoming friends with my friend). Also, I almost had something like this happen to me. I'm a fairly prolific writer in my fandoms and semi-known among some people and I got very sick this spring, very nearly died and while I don't think anyone would have made some kind of grand announcement of my passing had I done so, I think my husband (ho also writes fanfiction / posts at fanfiction . net and hangs out on Deviant Art) would have posted something about it. (It likely would have been one of those hard to find things that you'd only see if you knew both of our usernames and knew we were together /followed both of us).

But, yeah, unexpected things do happen.