[ SECRET POST #3811 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3811 ⌋

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Comments

[fscom]

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[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, I'm kind of the same way. I love it, but I also feel like it's often the literary equivalent of junk food (even the good fic since, like you said, it fills holes and that, along with easy emotional pay-offs and smut, is why I read it) and I'm just filling up on candy when I could be eating delicious yet more substantive meals.

[otakugal15]

I don't. I read both. And right now, I'm reading more "substantive meals" and even the last few books has been that...this latest book I'm struggling through is easily in the bad junk food category. Not bad FOR you, as in just BAD.

And this is about a Star Wars novel, mind.

[(Anonymous)]

I feel the same way. Fic has spoiled me. It's easy to look for and get exactly what I want. Getting into a new show or franchise or book is always a bit of a gamble. I wish I could motivate myself to try more new things, but I think I've gotten pickier over the years.

[(Anonymous)]

I find this interesting, because I'm the exact opposite. I find most fanfiction pretty boring and repetitive, and the writers' styles all seem to blend together so I rarely read it. I tend to think of fanfiction as a very incestuous genre lol.

On the other hand, while I am sifting through a lot of mediocre titles in published sci-fi and fantasy, I'm far more often blown away by a book that's both unique and has the level of inclusiveness/diversity I want.

Then again, I know I have weird taste. All the fanfics I tend to like are action/adventure over 10,000 words and those don't seem nearly as popular as everything else (based on the fandoms I peruse) ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[type_wild]

I find most fanfiction pretty boring and repetitive, and the writers' styles all seem to blend together so I rarely read it. I tend to think of fanfiction as a very incestuous genre lol.

FWIW, I agree completely, and yet I'm suffering OP's problem. Fic is very much a guilty pleasure thing for me; I read it for the same comfort that I can re-read my favourite novels over and over again. It's predictable as all hell and it's frequently trash, but the familiarity and already established love of the universe and the characters just pulls me in so much quicker than your average novel does.

[(Anonymous)]

ayrt

I can understand that. I used to feel the same way (I think...? lol). To me it's kind of like "Fiction Reading Explorer" vs. "Fiction Reading Hobbit". Also, it really doesn't help that it takes a damn lot of research to find books that you know will be up your alley. Spending money on something only to discover it's trash is incredibly frustrating. Fanfic is a much less risky endeavour.
(wow I'm blathering tonight. Sorry XD)

[tabaqui]

Every time I get lucky enough to go to a bookstore (we don't have any in my stupid town), I read tons of back covers and bits of chapters and flyleafs to find something that sounds interesting or attention grabbing.

And i just...am not. Not a lot of recent fiction has even remotely gotten my attention enough to read more of it, which i find sad. The newest thing I'm currently reading is 'The Expanse' series, which I only started reading because the tv show is so fucking good. I hadn't even heard of it, before, anywhere, so it wasn't on my radar.

I've been really disappointed by a *lot* of recent publications. Maybe it's the genre (i like sci-fi and fantasy), maybe it's my experiences with really good fanfic, I dunno. But i'm underwhelmed by a lot of what's out there.

[were_lemur]

I've been having the same experience. Though I'd been wondering if it wasn't depression-based: maybe it's not the books, it's me?

But a lot of what I've been looking at seems really samey to me. And maybe that's the function of having been around long enough to have read all of the plots multiple times before.

[tabaqui]

'Samey', exactly. It's just...i'm not seeing anything new or interesting. Maybe it's the style of the blurbs on the back, i just don't know. But nothing out there grabs me much at all.

[(Anonymous)]

Same, OP. I can understand why some people read fanfiction almost exclusively, but the mindset that everything I read must fit into a fairly narrow category with X tropes, Y pairings, etc. and it can't have anything I don't like in it is... hmmm. Maybe a generational thing. I'm pretty used to the idea that picking up a book is a gamble. I may like it, I may not like it, maybe it'll have stuff I love, maybe it'll have stuff I hate. But that's books? And IMO, fanfiction works pretty much the same way?

But I've had people insist to me that with all the tagging and description, no, fanfiction is way better because they're trying to minimize all possibility of ending up with something they won't like. I kind of think that by doing so, they're also decreasing the odds of being pleasantly surprised or discovering new things they like, but eh, different strokes.

[were_lemur]

The problem I have with a lot of a lot of published fiction isn't that I hate it, it's that I just feel meh about it. And frankly, I'd rather have free meh than meh I have to pay for.

[(Anonymous)]

I understand. I read a lot, and would never be able to afford to buy every single book I read. Libraries are an invaluable resource.

[(Anonymous)]

This makes sense, about not being pleasantly surprised by something um...novel!

I've been reading a lot more nonfiction overall rather than new fiction (and am still reading fanfic.)

I'm at the point where I'll reread Margaret Atwood or something instead of trying a new novel. IDK why.

[otakugal15]

"picking up a book is a gamble"

this right here is why the policing in fandom these days bugs the ever loving FUCK out of me.

Take the controversy over StormPilot. I don't ship it myself, but after seeing and reading what people were expecting writers to DO with that pairing just...makes my blood boil.

All I can think is "BOY you little assholes would FLIP ALL THE TABLES if you ever just picked up a random book. Or watched a new show without any know how behind it."

It's why if I tag my own fics (i have a few. i'm gonna be re-uploading them soon for the SWTOR fandom), I'm tagging them for just general stuff. And even then, my "tag" for one story that has some attempted rape? Is gonna be AT THE TOP above the read more. I don't feel like I need to put that in my tags section as I've already warned for it.

[mimi_sardinia]

I know the feeling. I can also say similar about Youtube.