[ SECRET POST #4101 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4101 ⌋

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

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 26 secrets from Secret Submission Post #587.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 1 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

but it is fanfiction, OP

[(Anonymous)]

In the sense that you've named your interchangeable coffee shop or high school characters after fandom characters? Sure, but by that logic my cat is also fanfic. Find me a coffee shop AU that's not OOC as hell, and then go buy a lottery ticket, because obviously you're beating the odds today.

[(Anonymous)]

Find me any fic that's well-written and you're beating the odds

[(Anonymous)]

Well written? Maybe not. More in-character than "Castiel the professional grad student and his madcap affair with Dean the gruff barista with a heart of gold and the secret to a perfect macchiato"? I'll take those odds.

[(Anonymous)]

But where's the lie? if Dean was a barista, he would be gruff, and would have a heart of gold, and would have the secret to a perfect macchiato.

Is it a perfect AU, is it to my taste, is it wildly original? no, of course not. but the fact that I don't care for it doesn't mean that it's outside the category of fanfiction entirely.

[(Anonymous)]

If you were a duck, you'd quack and dabble and shit in a pond, but if I wrote a story about a family of ducks looking for their missing egg and running away from a dog in the park and gave one of the ducks your name, I haven't written a story about you and your family.

[(Anonymous)]

It would be very in character for me, though

[(Anonymous)]

Even if that's true, most non-duck people are shaped enough by their environments and histories that completely erasing that and sticking them in the world's most generic holodeck simulation leaves them virtually unrecognizable. Since you're a duck that was turned into a human, you're probably beyond those limitations. Just remember, bread's not very good for you. Look for the humans with grapes or lettuce.

[(Anonymous)]

A fic can be OOC but extremely well-written, or IC but kind of poorly-written.

[silverr]

OOC but extremely well-written

Meaning that the characters are so unrecognizable the story might as well be original fiction?

(Personally I like IC and well-written. Rare, but not impossible.)

[(Anonymous)]

Yes, that's what I mean. I also prefer IC and well-written if available, but I'll read a fic with appalling grammar and all the poetry of a drunk text so long as the characterization is good.