[ SECRET POST #3711 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3711 ⌋

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

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[Captain America: Civil War]



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[The 100, Echo and Bellamy]


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Notes:

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Comments

[fscom]

04. http://i.imgur.com/mZm8IQL.png

[(Anonymous)]

I appreciate the visual pun here.

[(Anonymous)]

(ahaha, I came here to say this as well!)

I have to ask, though, OP... you're not worried about interpreting an ending without the context of the entire story?

[(Anonymous)]

+1

[(Anonymous)]

Likewise XD

[kallanda_lee]

me too.

[(Anonymous)]

That's smart. I can think of a few instances where I should have done that.

[(Anonymous)]

Hm. To be honest, I figure, if it's badly written, I'm not going to get to the end anyway. I don't think there's ever been a case where someone had a fic that I thought was genuinely well written up until the end.

[(Anonymous)]

Bad writing doesn't mean happy or bad ending.

[ninety6tears]

This falls on deaf ears in fandom, I'm afraid. And I'm put off by the implication that there are just authors who write HEA and ones who don't.

[(Anonymous)]

I think you and the OP are talking about different things. The OP wants to make sure the story has a happy ending before she invests time in reading it. You seem to be saying you would be happy with a tragic ending as long as the writing meets your quality standards.

Neither opinion is wrong, you just want different things from fic.

[kallanda_lee]

I can sort of get that, because while i do like plot, I do just need my happy ending fix sometimes.

[(Anonymous)]

OMG Same.

I don't think I've ever done that.

[(Anonymous)]

Though I much prefer happy endings. For a completed story, I feel like I can tell from the summary and/or the tone. And a WIP is always an iffy proposition - how it's going to end if it's going to end, if the story is going to take an abrupt left turn into the bizarre, if the writer is going to remember what they wrote eight chapters ago, etc. But you know, I read an interesting crossover as it was being written and there was a twist ending, a sort of 'it was all just a dream' thing that pissed me off, but I read the sequel because I liked her characterization so much and it redeemed the first story, which I never would have read if I had known the outcome beforehand.

[(Anonymous)]

I do this if something about the summary and/or tags makes it seem like the fic might not have a happy ending. Like, I really love super angsty fics, but if the tags imply the fic is dark and painful, I'm definitely going to check the ending.

One thing that kind of bugs me is how a lot of fic authors use the "Unrequited Love" tag to mean "The characters think their feelings are unrequited and have tons of angst about it, but eventually it turns out their feelings are entirely requited." I mean, those are not the same things at all. So every time I see the "Unrequited Love" tag I have to check the ending, just in case, even though 95% of the time, it's actually not unrequited at all.

[sarillia]

The unrequited thing bugs me too. I prefer when it's labeled something like "pining".

[ninety6tears]

I think there's a common misunderstanding where people think "unrequited" just refers to un-culminated pining or something. I see it misused a LOT.

[sockes]

I do with books all the time, but very rarely with fics. Maybe because the warnings and tags for fics already serve the same purpose for me? It used to drive me mother crazy, because she'd see me start a book, and then five minutes later she would see me at the end, and I'd have to explain to her that no, I didn't speed read a 300-page book in five minutes, I just wanted to see how it ended!

[iggy]

I do this too, unless it's like, a short oneshot. But if it's anything longer than a few thousand? Yeah. A lot of people in my fandoms will let you know outright in the tags if a story has a happy ending, that being said, which is nice. But even then, what they think constitutes a happy ending and what I do can and has been different.

[popkin16]

I do this too, ESPECIALLY with long fic. I figure the last paragraph or so won't spoil anything plot-y, since everything is usually resolved by then. But I don't want to spend all that time reading the fic only for it to end in heartache...