[ SECRET POST #4057 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4057 ⌋

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

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Comments

Re: ??

[(Anonymous)]

This is a tough one because it's nice that they were friendly to you, but that the authors didn't bite your head off when you made inquiries doesn't indicate that they thought your inquiries were acceptable. If I picked a random active author from any fandom off of AO3, went to their Tumblr, and asked for details about one of their fics, they probably would give me the details, but their politeness wouldn't mean that my actions had been within the realm of what that fandom considered polite. Most people want to be helpful, but that doesn't make every request that is made of them reasonable.

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[(Anonymous)]

One of my main fandoms is/was also Sherlock, and in that fandom I agree, it's definitely very standard. I'm had plenty of fandom friends groan to me over IM that they were waiting to hear back from an author about a fic they were chomping at the bit to read, like, "Should I just risk it? Oh I'd better not." A lot of fics even have author's notes encouraging people to ask the author about the fic if they weren't sure about anything - especially back in the fandom's heyday.

Also, people here's resistance to the idea of PMing authors is really inexplicable to me - not just because PMing authors has always been a totally reasonable thing to do in my experience, but because tumblr makes PMing fans to ask them about fannish stuff not just normal but utterly commonplace. Asks are so flipping normal it's not even funny, and a huge number of the asks I see on the regular are people asking something to do with someone's fic. And I've almost never seen anyone respond poorly to a reasonable, polite ask. If that's not commonplace in your fandoms I guess we just have extremely different experiences with fandom.