[ SECRET POST #4108 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4108 ⌋

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

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[Korg from Thor: Ragnarok]


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[Knight Squad]


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(Yellow Diamond from Steven Universe, "What's the Use of Feeling Blue")


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(the cast from Altered Carbon)


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(Zimmy, Gunnerkrigg Court)














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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I honestly don't understand this "I only write fic but don't read it" thing. It sounds kind of haughty to me.

[(Anonymous)]

If people would write the kind of fic I wanted, I wouldn't have to write at all! But they don't, so I do, and no, I'm not reading stuff that doesn't interest me.

[(Anonymous)]

This. There are fandoms where I'd absolutely read fic if they had the kind I wanted to read... but they don't. I could see writing fic, though. People who are in my position often get advice to write the kind of fic we want to read (which is pretty lame advice but that's a whole other issue) so maybe OP is doing that. Nothing haughty about it.

[killertofuuu]

+1

Also, same.

[(Anonymous)]

what above anon said, plus. I used to read fic and then I just got so damn tired of being burned. a low enough success rate finding exactly what I want is enough to make me just. stop looking.

[(Anonymous)]

I think that's reading a lot into it. I have fandoms where the kind of fics I'm interested in aren't popular and what is popular isn't my cup of tea. So I might write what interests me, but why would I read fics that don't appeal to me?

[(Anonymous)]

Did you miss the part where OP says they also have fandoms where they do the opposite?

[(Anonymous)]

Not OP, but I psych myself out if I'm doing both. I'm reading a bunch of fics for a fandom, and then I sit down to write and I can't stop thinking, "Well, Story X did this better," and "Author Z has better characterizations than I can write." I just have to do my own thing for a while.

[(Anonymous)]

To add a little bit to what everyone else has said, I usually end up writing fic when I've exhausted all the existing fic that is to my taste. I tend to immerse myself in whatever I'm enjoying, so if a fandom has fic I like, I feel no need to write. What others have written is satisfying the urge.

But if there is nothing available to scratch my particular itch, it's up to me to do so myself. It's not "this fandom's fics suck!", it's "this fandom hates soulmate fics, and that's what I want to read. Time to fire up Notepad!"

[(Anonymous)]

I don't know whether it is haughty.

It's how some of my friends do fandom in general -- and I in specific fandoms. As in, I've perhaps read two HOUSE, M.D. fics in my life, but I've written way more than that. Not because I hated the fandom's fic at all -- I just wasn't interested; the show gave me what I wanted, and I put pen to paper when it told me something about itself.

Plus, if you're a purist...no, wait: If you're a ~purist~ then OF COURSE you don't want to "spoil" your idea with fanon, writing styles, etc. It's not about you being better -- it's about you wanting to do yer own thang. (I think I've only ever done this once in my life, but yeah, I've done it, although I generally love fandom for the very engagement and cross-pollination.)

[(Anonymous)]

If I want to write fic for a fandom I usually won't read other people's stories because I'm paranoid that I'll end up accidentally plagiarizing something if I forget I've read it and think it's my own idea.

I once tried to write a short story for a contest and it took me a few pages to realize that I was basically writing a very condensed and crappy Lord of the Rings knock-off.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't think so.

All the fic I've seen for the my corner of my current fandom is crap. Weird kinks, poor writing (both in terms of subject matter or the classic switching tense mid sentence) or fics written entirely in lowercase.

I'm not reading that.

[(Anonymous)]

I can't tell you how many times I've read fanfics where the stories/characterizations/style/whatever either don't do anything for me, or bug me in some way. Even relatively minor things get me all over the back button sometimes. It's not always a question of quality, though. I get jerked out of stories: books, games, movies, fics, etc. very easily, which again isn't necessarily their story being bad, or me thinking I could do better for anyone other than myself. I never expect any writers to cater to my pickiness, because my pickiness is my problem, not theirs.

Even so, as the old adage goes: "If you want something done right, do it yourself." Maybe what's right for me to read is also what I write. If that makes me, or anyone else "haughty" as you put it, then so what? Does it even matter? I don't leave anyone any rude comments on their fics if I don't like them, nor do I pretend to be a better writer than anyone else, and that's good enough. I'm not going to spend hours reading something I don't like, especially if it's fanfic. I wouldn't expect anyone to treat my fics any differently either.