[ SECRET POST #4333 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4333 ⌋

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

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 15 secrets from Secret Submission Post #620.
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: Secrets You're Too Lazy to Make

[(Anonymous)]

I recently finished S. Jae Jones’ Wintersong and its sequel Shadowsong. I enjoyed both books, but am boggled that none of Jones’ editors cared (or maybe recognized?) that they were publishing a Labyrinth fanfic sprinkled with Phantom of the Opera references when they read one.

FFS, the protagonist’s love interest is a tall thin man with pale blond hair and one green and one blue eye called the Goblin King who rules The Underground. His goblin subjects only do what she says when she prefaces it with “I wish,” and she has to rescue her stolen siblings from the Goblin King (at least everyone got a name change.)

I wouldn’t have minded the Phantom references since they aren’t so “holy copyright infringement, Batman!,” by themselves, but as half a Labyrinth crossover they made me wince.

Re: Secrets You're Too Lazy to Make

[(Anonymous)]

I haven't heard of those books but I'd swear I've seen other published works (probably self pubbed to be fair so there might not be any editors) that sound like blatant rip offs of Labyrinth fanfic. And it's never any of the GOOD writers from that fandom, either.

Re: Secrets You're Too Lazy to Make

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT—I read a few, but I never got all that into Labyrinth fanfic or fandom. That there’d be a lot of self-published undisguised fanfic for it out there doesn’t surprise me.

I’m more of a Beauty and the Beast and Phantom of the Opera fan, and when I searched for Beauty and the Beast ebooks from my local library system, I was excited to see so many on offer—until I actually downloaded a few and realized they were about 75% really awful Phantom of the Opera AUs. The remainder were about handsome assholes who were called beastly for being dickheads, and maybe had one small decorative scar, falling in love with feisty young heiresses.

I think most published authors whose work started out as fanfic had to polish their stuff up and change names/descriptions/some of the backstory in order to have their work legit published, plus if it’s profic it’s probably been edited. Some of the self-published fanfic out their hasn’t even been spellchecked. I’d bet more self-published fanfic is mediocre compared to the best stuff in the fandom it originated from, because the very best either stays free fanfic, or is polished up for pro-publishing.

Re: Secrets You're Too Lazy to Make

[(Anonymous)]

I AGREE AND I AM SO MAD ABOUT IT STILL.