[ SECRET POST #3776 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3776 ⌋

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[French politics / My Little Pony]


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Comments

[fscom]

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[(Anonymous)]

That's pretty common with most fandoms. The fics with most comments/kudos/favorites/etc. are usually kind of shitty.

[(Anonymous)]

This is sometimes true with big fandoms, but I find that with the smaller or mid-sized ones the highest kudosed fic(s) are usually the best, and everything below those is pretty terrible.

[(Anonymous)]

Nayrt
I disagree, at least partially. Sometimes in smaller fandoms it is eaven easier for charming but talentfree bnfs to gain popularity. So it really depends on the particular fandom dynamic.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, there's someone in my fandom like this. It's not terrible, especially not for free content, but I roll my eyes SO HARD sometimes. She also alliterates WAY TOO MUCH. UGH STOP.

[mrs_don_draper]

I'm 100% with you!

[(Anonymous)]

There's someone in my fandom with a somewhat popular fic who very clearly picks a lot of their words from a thesaurus without knowing what they actually mean. I was constantly reading words that did not mean what they thought it meant in the context of their sentence. I thought it was really obnoxious.

At least the most kudos'd fic in the fandom is actually quite good, but the quality declines sharply after that.

[(Anonymous)]

I once saw someone do that on a term paper.

They had been warned not to plagiarize and to put things in their own words. Clearly, they felt copying from other sources and then using a thesaurus to change a bunch of words counted as "putting it in your own words." Their choices of replacement words mostly didn't work in context and the result was nonsensical and hilarious. I was more disappointed that they didn't understand what all those words really mean than I was about the plagiarism.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, I get that. It's sorta amazing how many fic writers seem like they've never read an actual book in their lives.

I can't even tell you how many people in my fandom (for a game/anime) cant even do the most basic formatting. I saw one person literally use bulletpoints for every sentence that wasn't dialogue.

[(Anonymous)]

I feel like this really varies from fandom to fandom. Many popular authors in fandoms I've been in are really just that good!

[(Anonymous)]

I'd like to know what your fandom is because I'll take a touch of purple over the boring beige prose of so many BNF fics in my fandoms.

[ninety6tears]

Yeahhh, I'll deal on the side of pretentious just to get the slightest attempt at a narrative voice TBH.

[(Anonymous)]

Seconding this hard. Maybe it's because I know my own stuff can go shades of purple at times too, but man I would take someone who's actually put some real honest effort into making an interesting sentence over someone who's just straightforward, boring prose.

And 'purple prose' is subjective anyways. One person's purple prose is someone else's perfectly cromulent construction in many cases.

[(Anonymous)]

"cromulent"?

*swoons*

[(Anonymous)]

Ugh, I feel you on this. Purple Prose can be all right, but sometimes it just goes way too far. And like some of the other anons, I'm not big on the 'I used a thesaurus for half the words in this' kind of fic either.