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[ SECRET POST #4479 ]

⌈ Secret Post #4479 ⌋

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09. https://i.imgur.com/m26bIzN.png

I read it and it made me cringe so hard. I think it’s the cringiest book I’ve ever read, but I needed to know how it ended because I was really, really hoping the MC would change. Spoiler: She didn’t, but it was a wild ride and the reviews for the book are a delight.

I haven't read any of the fandom meta novels that have been coming out for the last few years, so I can't really say whether I think they're bad or good. But they do make me cringe a bit.

IDK, I guess I just don't feel like my obsessive fixation on my OTP is in any way qualified to be the central topic of a novel? I'm not embarrassed that I ship. I'm not embarrassed that I read fanfic. All my friends know it's a thing I'm into and they're chill about it. But...what more is there to say, really? Being a big old shipper nerd is a character trait, not a plot, IMO.

Is this the one where the fangirl was like "YOU CAN'T BELIEVE THESE CHARACTERS ARE GAY YOU'RE A HOMOPHOBE" and she was brought on for damage control?

Eeeeeeeeeeeeesh.

Indeed. The one that shrieked, “They’re just dicks, you dick!”, to the actor who plays half of her OTP after he got mad at her for breaking his trust (he told her his dad’s not supportive of his career, she wrote an RPF where the actor’s dad physically abuses him and the actor’s costar has to comfort him).

she wrote an RPF where the actor’s dad physically abuses him and the actor’s costar has to comfort him

Oh my god.

All other fuckery in that scenario aside, that's some of the cringiest dialogue I've ever heard.

Ah yes, good old "Main character violates the boundaries of everyone who trusts her but is somehow The Good Guy"

Haha, I love when people trash these kind of books. Fangirl was so cringey too. Got any links to scathing reviews?

All the top Goodreads ones. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36204669-ship-it

Goodreads has some nice ones: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36204669-ship-it?from_search=true

Oops, looks like the above anon beat me to the punch!

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(Anonymous) - 2019-04-12 00:56 (UTC) - Expand

omg these reviews. ty both anons I'm going to make some popcorn and binge them all and try not to feel the crushing depression that awful terribad shit like this still gets published.

Idk, I hate books like this so much bc they’re so embarrassing. They’re trying to be relatable like “hey, this is a fandom geek just like you!” And then proceeds to show the toxic, obsessed, and delusional side of fandom that is only a vocal minority. And it’s like, is that how non fandom people see us? I swear most of us go outside sometimes and don’t hack celebs accounts for their baby pictures.

I feel the same way and it makes me wonder how many of these authors were/are even involved in fandom or just saw the batshit craxy from the outside (Ship It is so obviously based on the time Jensen Ackles told some girl that Destiel wasn’t real at a con) and decided all fans were like that.

Just looking at the cover of this makes me cringe so hard.

I think the cover is actually really nice, I just wish it wasn't for this story

There's some wierd part of my brain that looks at authors of 'geekery' novels as being... somewhat traitorous. Lol.

"The first rule of Fandom is: you do not talk about Fandom. The second rule of Fandom is: You do not talk about Fandom. Third rule of Fandom: Fan yells "Stop!", goes limp, taps out, the fandom drama is over. Fourth rule: Only two fans to a fight."

Yeah, same. “How dare you reveal our secrets?!”

Lol Those kinds of books definitely feel like the author’s revealing our secrets and a tiny part of my brain always thinks, “A real fan wouldn’t do this to us!”.

That door closed long ago. I'd say Voltron fandom is really the ultimate point to show it absolutely is gone, when the slash ship was so popular and cultish that it legit began stalking and blackmailing the creators to the point where they avoided social media to avoid the death threats, and sent death threats and slurs and joked about shooting one of the NB lesbian voice actresses...

I'd say with the advent of twitter the last barriers with fandom disappeared. Fandom hasn't been Fight Club since at least 2012, I'd say.

Huge cringe. The author is also kind of an asshole.

Apparently she got dropped off Riverdale.

Riverdale?

Is she an actress, then? That would explain a lot about her views of fandom, if she’d been subject to the kind of bullshit actors often face on twitter and at cons during shipping wars.

“Fans” accusing them of hating costars, being homophobes, saying their characters/they should die, lots of idiots who conflate actors and characters and heap all the abuse of a character they hate on the actor—and that’s without going into tinhatting “clearly your S.O. was hired to provide cover for your torrid romance with your costar, you definitely have better taste than to date/marry such a mean ugly nobody” bs. And of course there’s also garden variety “you’re so hot I want to cum on your titties/just wanted you to know I dry hump my custom ’you’ body pillow” creepiness.

If that was her perspective, I doubt she'd have tried so hard to make the protagonist in this book come out on top.

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