[ SECRET POST #3768 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3768 ⌋

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

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[Great British Bake Off]


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11. [SPOILERS for Yuri on Ice]



















Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 00 pages, 00 secrets from Secret Submission Post #538.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ], [ 1 - I am not sure if this is a troll or not ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[fscom]

10. http://i.imgur.com/WuUyMjc.png

Transcript by OP

[fscom]

Cut for length.

Re: Transcript by OP

[fscom]

So there's this writer in my fandom.

They've only been writing in it for a few years (out of the dozen that the show has been on the air) but I've been really enjoying their stories. (While they write some shipper stuff, they also write a fair amount of gen, which I prefer.)

A couple days ago, I decided to read a bunch of their stories.

And I realized that a couple of their stories that I thought were unrelated one-shots could actually be connected.

Story A (written and posted first) told the story of a recurring character observing and then helping some some OCs, a mother and daughter, who were never named. It was set some time after a certain canon event, but the exact timeframe was never established.

Story B (written and posted second) was about a series regular interacting with a one-shot canon character who had been in a sexual relationship with one of the leads, and who was now (unbeknownst to said lead character) pregnant with his child.

For whatever reason, it occured to me that the mother from Story A was actually the canon one=off character from Story B, and that the daughter was the lead character's child. This would put Story A farthter into the future than I had previously thought, but not prohibitively so due to the canon character in that story being effectively immortal.

Now I feel weird. Because my headcanon for these two stories is probably wrong. Part of me wants to ask the author (and, of course, tell me how perceptive I am to have noticed the connection, another part is afraid of seeming like a total weirdo, and a third part is worried about being "Jossed" by a fanfic author, and having to admit that this story (about the character who is presumed to be dead protecting the daughter of the lead) is completely a figment of my overactive fannish imagination

[(Anonymous)]

How many vague secrets does it take before we start assuming people are just fucking with us to be dickwads?

[(Anonymous)]

Dude, chill. Not everyone wants to be specific in case their fandom is small or they don't want to be outed to their friends. It's not personal.

nayrt

[(Anonymous)]

"Dozen years" and "effectively immortal" make me think either Doctor Who (since the reboot has been out since 2005 and we're now in 2017, despite it only being season 10) or Supernatural. Neither of which are exactly small.

[(Anonymous)]

This seems really benign and un-wanky to be actually fucking with anybody, though.

[(Anonymous)]

You should ask them! Even if there is no connection and your theory isn't what they had in mind, I bet they'd be flattered to hear that somebody loves their stories enough that they'd come up with fan theories about them. I know I would be!

[(Anonymous)]

I agree! Quite a few authors love talking about their fics and the things fans have to say about them. :)

[(Anonymous)]

+1. I think it can't hurt to ask, and you never know, you may have been picking up on details the author left there. For my fics, there is always a ton of backstory, and a lot gets cut out and doesn't make it into the final fic, but there are details still left in the story, and still creep into the storyline.

Even if you aren't right, the author might find it an intriguing idea, so why not ask?

[(Anonymous)]

I'd say go for it, even if it wasn't intentional they'll still likely be happy someone put so much thought into their fics.

Though as a writer I once needed a made-up name for something, smacked out some letters that looked nice, googled to make sure I hadn't grabbed a Real Word by mistake, then went on with my life. Something like six months later I suddenly realized I'd just slightly mispelled a nearby street name.