[ SECRET POST #4481 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4481 ⌋

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

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02.
[The Hobbit]


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03.
[Tim Burton's Dumbo]


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04.
[Lady Gaga in A Star Is Born]


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05.
[Giles Coren, writer and TV presenter]


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06.
[The Dragon Prince]


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07.
[Quicksand on Netflix]

















Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 43 secrets from Secret Submission Post #642.
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

[(Anonymous)]

Because people delete instead of orphan-ing.

[ayebydan]

with their right tho no?

[(Anonymous)]

And it's also peoples' right to download the fics, at least on AO3, where it's explicitly part of the license, so

*shrug*

[(Anonymous)]

But it shouldn't be. The option to download should be something the author can disable.

[(Anonymous)]

NAYRT—if you think I wouldn’t transcribe some of my faves by hand if necessary, you don’t know how fandom works.

[ayebydan]

as an author, I'd still like the option to make it harder for you. but I am crap and you won't for me so it is all good.

[(Anonymous)]

You're not crap, I totally get why someone would feel weird about someone downloading and editing their work, it's an understandable impulse and feeling. I just don't think you have the right to actually stop someone from doing it.

[(Anonymous)]

If you don't want readers to be able to download your fic, AO3 is not the correct place for you to post it.

[(Anonymous)]

I agree that it should be possible to disable that option, but it's not, so by posting there rather than an archive that doesn't come with a built in download feature, you're implicitly consenting to have your work downloaded.

[(Anonymous)]

The option to download should be something the author can disable.

I agree with this. However, I spent five years in and old-ass fandom, c/ping every fic I read into a word file before I read it because I hated the formatting of old fic hosting websites. And let me tell you, the time and effort it takes to Ctrl+A, Ctrl+C, and then Ctrl+P is extremely minimal.

So disabling the download function would only deter the borderline-indifferent and the extremely lazy.

[amalthia]

agreed, plus there are tools to wholesale download entire websites....I've done this. It's better to just allow people to download the few fics, I've accidentally grabbed more than intended when I downloaded a few websites.

[(Anonymous)]

That's silly. You do realize that copy/paste exists, right? I've saved fics from Fanfiction.net by copying them into Word Documents. It was a damn good thing too, since some of those fics got deleted.