[ SECRET POST #4234 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4234 ⌋

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 24 secrets from Secret Submission Post #606.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - 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

Re: Fandom complaints

[(Anonymous)]

I'm part of an older fandom that isn't that active anymore, but there is this super prolific author who writes about my two favorite ships and tropes, and publishes at least one or two fics per week.

There is only one tiny, little problem: their writing is awful!

And it's not just the fact that their grammar and spelling is atrocious, there's also continuity failures (sometimes within the same short chapter or even the same paragraph), thesaurus abuse, the cringiest purple prose, and a tendency to write every character as if they were particularly childish teens.

I had to stop tracking the tags for those two ships because out of every twenty new fics there might be one or two that aren't theirs and I was tired of getting my hopes up just to be disappointed.

Re: Fandom complaints

[(Anonymous)]

oh that is just the wooooooooorst

And it's not like you can really say something to them about it, or anything

Re: Fandom complaints

[(Anonymous)]

I've had a similar problem in an older fandom as well. Mostly, this author who used to spam the archive with fic was writing for this one ship I liked but everything about their fic was stuff I hated. M-preg, terrible writing, maximum OOC, uninspired AUs that made not a lick of sense and to top it all off, inconsistent/faulty tagging. I gave up on that fandom after a while.

Re: Fandom complaints

[(Anonymous)]

Oh man that would suuuuuck. There's a particular trope I'm really into (but for some reason is most popular in genres I'm not interested in) so I'm always checking the AO3 tag for it. I get really excited when a fandom/pairing I like pops up, because it's so rare, but it's almost always awful.

Re: Fandom complaints

[(Anonymous)]

Oh man, I used to be in a fandom kind of like that... the writer wasn't a bad person exactly but her writing was kind of, well... cringey. Full of romanticized semi-rapey stuff that she felt was okay because she really, really loved the main male character and thought he was hot. And this person wasn't a dumb teenager, they were in their late 40s/early 50s, ffs. She thought her age and experience (barf) made her a self appointed Den Mother of fandom. I avoided her and her work like the bubonic plague.