[ SECRET POST #4381 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4381 ⌋

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

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Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 17 secrets from Secret Submission Post #627.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I’m not a big slash fan, and one of my current OTPs is both canon and het, and mostly my favorite AUs are departures from canon events rather than, idk, commercial airline pilot AUs or whatever. But I’m always baffled by the “original fic in disguise” thing.

I remember one author used to mention how tall, tan, and toned half my OTP is—the 5’6” 50 year old who walks with a cane and basically never bares any skin except his face and hands, and lives so far north it’s possible to see the northern lights. And the complete rewrites of canon personalities are just as bad. Combine them and literally the only thing left are character names—and if there’s non-canon nicknames or magical to mundane or mundane to magical AU settings involved, even those aren’t certainties.

[(Anonymous)]

one author used to mention how tall, tan, and toned half my OTP is—the 5’6” 50 year old who walks with a cane and basically never bares any skin except his face and hands, and lives so far north it’s possible to see the northern lights.

OMG, lol, that's great.

I actually just read a fic the other day where one of the characters mentioned having grown up with a lot of brothers. Except we know the canon character just has one sister. The whole time I'd been reading (well, skimming) this fic, I'd been thinking it seemed incredibly original-fiction-y, and then I got to the part about the brothers and felt a bit validated. Because honestly, why would the author change such an insignificant detail for no reason at all? My bet is they write original id-fic, and then swap the names in order to take advantage of the built in readership the fandom gives them. (It's a big fandom and their fic had 434 kudos.)

If their characterizations are as askew as their physical descriptions, maybe the author in your fandom is doing the same?

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AYRT—I don’t even remember who the author was because after reading that description I went “huh, I thought this was trending torward generic romance novel, but now I know it is,” and stopped reading their stuff. And yeah, it’s not a huge monster fandom like the MCU or Harry Potter, but it’s also not tiny, so maybe they were publishing their barely-disguised original fic in a fandom they were familiar with.