[ SECRET POST #3811 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3811 ⌋

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Comments

[(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.