[ SECRET POST #3949 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3949 ⌋

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

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09. https://i.imgur.com/CCSTAru.png
[OP wanted this warned for sexual content, image itself is SFW though]








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Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 10 secrets from Secret Submission Post #565.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

SA

Also, I've noticed it's become more and more comment for people who contribute nothing except wank to their fandom to complain about there not being enough of specific kinds of fanworks. The standard rebuke used to be "if you want a specific fic and it doesn't exist, write it yourself and maybe you'll inspire someone else to write more." Now, it's almost #problematic to say that, because you're just saying that to silence marginalized people! You're just like people who say those who want to be represented in film should make their own movies! Never mind that, unlike producing a blockbuster film, writing a fanfic costs nothing but time, and maybe if people stopped arguing with each other on Tumblr/Twitter for five seconds they would have time to write their dream fic.

There's a weird sort of contradiction I've noticed where artists and writers are pretty much considered machines who have an almost moral obligation to produce certain kinds of content. It's almost like they think a select few people per fandom have a magical machine that they put quarters into and out pops a fic, and the people with the magical machine must be guilt tripped into making the machine pop out the right fics. And at the same time, their efforts are belittled, because it's also thought that writing and drawing are so easy, anyone can do it! Never mind that even though the complainers COULD be learning to write/draw to make the content they want, they clearly aren't.

It all contributes to an environment where producing content can quickly change from a fun process to a miserable one. I know these are issues that have always existed but I definitely think they've gotten worse recently. For all that social media is supposed to foster connections between people, I think readers/viewers and writers/artists are further apart than ever. People don't seem to remember that a real person posted that fanart on Tumblr or that fic on AO3.

[(Anonymous)]

It's almost like they think a select few people per fandom have a magical machine that they put quarters into and out pops a fic

Yeah, except almost no one pops the coins in anymore. I mean, fic writers used to take requests a lot more, too. They used to do prompt fests all the time, but that was back when people used to comment all the time, and there was a back-and forth in the comments, there were comment fic spawned out of the excited squee that was the fan->creator->fan interaction. It's not salt. It's sadness that makes me say, boy, I really miss the time when fans were part of the creation process by being part of the artistic dialog.

I hate Tumblr for taking that away. The architects actively discourage conversation by not including something like Disqus natively, instead of forcing the theme makers to awkardly attempt to shoehorn it into their templates.