[ SECRET POST #4057 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4057 ⌋

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Comments

Re: ??

[(Anonymous)]

Oh, okay, I think I see where people are getting this 24/7 thing. I did not mean they had to be available ALWAYS. I mean it's standard in my main fandoms for ALL authors to be available if their readers want to PM them asking questions about the content of their fics. Whether it takes ten minutes or ten days for the author to get back to you is entirely down the the author.

Maybe that's not standard in other fandoms, but it's been pretty standards in all the fandoms I've been active in (large, Western, live-action fandoms), and it seems to work out pretty well. I've never felt inconvenienced by anons contacting me. I appreciate them taking the time to do it. I can see how it could be a lot of some of the really big BNFs to take, but then the big BNFs tend to be the ones who just post an inquiry to their LJ and respond to it there so they can answer everyone at once.

Re: ??

[(Anonymous)]

Yyyyyeah I still think it's completely bizarre to expect authors to get back to you at all, whether it's within an hour or within a year.

Re: ??

[(Anonymous)]

Huh. Everybody I know in fandom does it.

What's weird to me is how against this people on this comm are. It's nice, believe me. It's nice to hear from potential readers who are curious about your fic. And It's definitely nice to be able to find out more about something that happens in the fic, rather than just having to walk away from a potentially really good fic because of what might be in it. Some of my favorite fics are fics I probably wouldn't have read if I couldn't ask the author what happened in the fic.

Re: ??

[(Anonymous)]

I'm at the point where until you're more specific about your large/popular fandoms where this is totally common to the point that you can't imagine a fandom where this isn't the standard thing to do, I'm assuming you're a skillful troll.

Re: ??

[(Anonymous)]

It's weird to me that you find it weird that people are bristling at the idea strangers could make demands about how they spend their time that they never agreed to

Writing a story is NOT, no matter how much you seem to think it is, entering a contract to answer inquiries from potential readers

Re: ??

[(Anonymous)]

It's weird to me that you think anybody is making "demands" on anybody. Nobody is. That's why it's all so friendly and helpful. As I said in a comment below, most authors I've spoken to want to talk about their fic. A lot of the authors I asked gave me much more information that I asked for (I would always be as specific as possible so they could answer as easily as possible).

If I'd ever had an author that didn't respond to a PM, I wouldn't have talked shit about them or something. I just would've been disappointed and not read their fic.

Now if you do have commonly triggering stuff in your fic (the really obvious stuff that triggers lots of people) and you don't tag it in any way, then I think that's rude and insensitive. But the last I checked, the majority of fandom agrees about that. Not sure why this comm is the holdout.