[ SECRET POST #4215 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4215 ⌋

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

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[Detroit: Become Human]


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(Drag queen Soju)


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(Boku no Hero Academia)


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[Detroit: Become Human]



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Comments

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Transcript by OP

[fscom]

I’m writing a fic that gained a lot of success (thousands of kudos and hudrends of comments per chapter kind of succesful.)
and people often ask me from where the idea the fic is based on (main character with a specific disability) came from.
I usually answer that plot bunnies just come and go for not particular reason, which is usually true, for me.

But this particular fic? I started writing after I read another fic in the same fandom with that premise that was terribly written,
had ooc characters and was very grossly sexual with no need to be. I never finished that fic because it squicked me out so
much, and I wanted to try my own take on the concept.
Aside from the character-with-disability premise, the two fics are completely different, and I don’t think it would be wrong of
me to admit I started writing it after being so unsatisfied with another fic... But I’ve got so many people telling me that my
stoy has touched them so much, it would feel bad to admit to them that I originally started writing pretty much out of spite.

I’m going to drag this secret with me into the grave, at this point.

(pokemon has nothing to do with it, I just wanted to use the move “spite”)

[(Anonymous)]

Was it full on spite? Because usually when I start my Own take on a fic like what you've described is because I would rather read something satisfying. It has less to do with spiting the author or the fic, and more to do with me wanting to read something better (not that I'm the shit or anything). And I don't think there's anything wrong with saying another fic inspired this one, or the concept of another story made me wonder how things would be if...(which is essentially the life blood of fanfiction)

But I understand taking it to the grave.

[(Anonymous)]

Making something beautiful and touching out of spite is the best thing to do with spite.

But, yeah, good not to advertise the inciting plot bunny.

[(Anonymous)]

"thousands of kudos and hudrends of comments per chapter kind of succesful"

Be careful, OP. Might break your arm patting yourself on the back.

(FY I'm envious.)

[(Anonymous)]

You're not the only one, anon. I count my stories as spectacular to get 50 kudos and any type of commentary.

[(Anonymous)]

Same.

Humblebragging is one thing. Waving details like that around is like masturbating in public: Feels good for one person, but not everyone else wants to fucking see it.

[(Anonymous)]

*shrug* That sort of thing really depends on the fandom.

[(Anonymous)]

I wrote a short (and frankly not very good) fic for a popular pairing in a megafandom that happened to hit on a popular trope at the right moment. It has more than TEN TIMES the kudos and comments of my next most popular fic. That number of kudos and comments is not bragging in some fandoms.

[(Anonymous)]

i think you're just bitter

AYRT

[(Anonymous)]

Well, duh! Of course I'm bitter.

Most fanfiction authors don't get "thousands of kudos per chapter" unless they're pandering. Not everyone is able to do that. Authors who can't tend to get discouraged after a while and stop writing, which might be why there's such a low percentage go unique voices.

(It would have been sufficient and kind if the OP had simply said "I wrote something that is very popular" instead of flaunting.)

OP

[(Anonymous)]

Huh-- Sorry. I honestly didn't mean to come across as bragging. To be honest the amount of success this fic is having is kinda unnerving and stressful for me :°D I said that because I wanted to underline how bad I think would be, to admit the original reason I started writing the fic, considering how many people are reading it.

But I can see how that can come across as bragging. I apologize.

[(Anonymous)]

I find that spite is the best motivator to write. :D

[(Anonymous)]

Honestly, that's why I got into writing fanfic, too. It wasn't any one particular fic I was trying to rewrite, just a whole bunch of crappy ones that made me think, "Damn, even I could do better than this."