[ 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 think people who think fanfic is better than published work aren't trying very hard to find published work they might like. Secret because it's none of my business and why should I care if they only read fanfic.

Re: Secrets You're Too Lazy to Make

[(Anonymous)]

TBF it's, in many ways, a much bigger pain in the ass to find published work that you like than fic. It's not like there's one centralized exhaustively tagged and filterable repository of works like AO3. Yeah, there's book review sites, but I've never found them very useful, because it feels like everyone who uses them or writes for them is an excitable puppy who loves everything they read, and also, at least personally, I've never found any that match my tastes closely enough to be very useful. To be fair, my tastes are on the picky side, but still.

IDK the barriers to entry are higher, in some ways. I'd love to read some good published fic but it's a real slog to find stuff I like.

Re: Secrets You're Too Lazy to Make

[(Anonymous)]

I always just assume that what they actually mean is "I can't find open that caters to my specific kinks except in fandom" but don't want to come out and say that. I don't judge, being as mainstream open is pretty gross most of the time, but this is what I always think.

Re: Secrets You're Too Lazy to Make

[(Anonymous)]

*PORN. They can't find PORN that caters to their kinks. Not "open," wtf autocorrect.

Re: Secrets You're Too Lazy to Make

[(Anonymous)]

I’ve read some fanfic that’s as good as some of the best published books I’ve read, and I’ve read—or rather, read the beginnings of—plenty of shitty fanfic and profic. Kink-specific fanfic is probably the appeal for some people some of the time, but also a lot of published romance fiction sucks compared to fanfic for reasons that don’t have much to do with smut/erotica/porn.

A lot of published romance is still so formulaic that even just basically writing the same story as fanfic rather than profic, with characters readers already know, feels like an improvement over Generic Romance Heroine and her Generic Manly Love-Interest.

Re: Secrets You're Too Lazy to Make

[(Anonymous)]

I just usually think they're talking about fanfic being better than boilerplate romance novels - Harlequin, Silhouette, Mills & Boon, etc. And I would say they have a case. Not all fanfic and not all novels, but yes, some fanfic is definitely better than some of those novels and I say this as someone who devoured those things once upon a time.