[ SECRET POST #4714 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4714 ⌋

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

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 28 secrets from Secret Submission Post #675.
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

[fscom]

05. https://i.imgur.com/fpcz0N2.png

[(Anonymous)]

It's still alive and kicking (just), secret-haver. Theoretically, nothing's stopping you C:

[(Anonymous)]

Possibly the secret-haver is in RPF fandoms and/or writes mostly porny fic. Aren't there also certain authors whose book fandoms can't be posted to ff.net? Anne Rice and a few others?

[(Anonymous)]

It's still alive, anon!

[(Anonymous)]

O call back yesterday bid time return

[dancingmouse]

You feeling okay, Nonny?

[(Anonymous)]

I went on FF recently after exhausting all the fics on AO3 and hell was I confused on how to navigate the site. Some of it came back to me, but I forgot just how bad people were at saying what the paring even was in their fic. (at least in the fandom I was looking at) It was like having a flashback almost, because I actually prefer how people wrote back then compared to now, but finding what I actually wanted was like pulling teeth.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't understand the system ff.net has now, it's a lot more needlessly complex than it was years ago when it was THE fanfic site.

At least I remember it being easier to find fic involving a certain pairing back then than it is now.

[(Anonymous)]

Absolutely!

[(Anonymous)]

"I actually prefer how people wrote back then compared to now"

I don't mean to be sarcastic, this is a genuine question because I'm genuinely puzzled: what do you mean by this? Did fanfic writing noticeably change? Because I don't see it at all and now I'm really curious lol

[(Anonymous)]

ayrt

I want to say before tumblr, but that's not exactly accurate... The best description I can think of would be to define it as 'teen angst'. In the mid 2000's there was a lot of fic that dealt with heavier themes, (murder, disorders, abuse, ect.) with little to no warning involved, let alone it being handled with the hesitance you might see today due to the stigmas that surround those subjects.
I found people wrote what the wanted to write, rather than writing what they thought other people wanted to read.

This is a terrible explanation, but hopefully it makes some sort of sense.

[(Anonymous)]

Oh no, it wasn't terrible, I understand what you mean perfectly! Nowadays fandoms can have those tendency with the purity police running amock and all- But at the same time I find myself disagreeing in the sense that, personally, I never had issue finding those kind of works. That was why I was curious, I never perceived this shift! I suppose it's down to the fandoms one runs into. I'd imagine all the fandom I've dwelled in had no issue producing darker works.

Sucks it happened to your fandoms, tho. I hope in the future ppl will chill about all this 'anti' bullshit

[(Anonymous)]

DA - +1000000

[(Anonymous)]

I noticed it too. The fic became more... hip? All these gender identities, coffee shop AUs (I love those btw) and stylization (Napoleonic Era, Victorian, 20s). At least in my fandoms.

[jadeile]

While others say that it's still around, and technically it is, I understand what you mean. It's no longer THE fanfic site, which is now AO3, and as such it's simply not the same anymore. There is a lot less traffic, especially with any newer or smaller fandoms.

I have accounts on both ffnet and AO3, and I post most of my fics on both sites, but way back when I (and most other people) didn't have AO3 yet, it was a whole different experience to post on ffnet. And even after I got my AO3 account I initially still considered ffnet my main place and AO3 was just a secondary place where maybe someone might notice my fanfic and leave a kudos over time, while all the real commenting and faving happened at ffnet. But nowadays? I expect to get attention at AO3 and kinda just post to ffnet as a courtesy without expecting much. Now any comment that comes through ffnet is a moment of "Huh. Looks like there is a reader there too. Glad I bothered to post there. Okay, now let's read the five comments from AO3 and reply to them". The magic is simply gone since most people have moved to AO3.

Also, there's the fact that AO3 is so much better in almost every way. If you were to go back to being an author (I assume you stopped at some point), you'd do yourself a favour by going to AO3 instead and not even bothering with ffnet. I'm personally never gonna ditch ffnet, but that's mostly because I have such a huge archive of fics there already, all with their comments and faves, that I don't want to leave behind. And if I'm not burning the house down, then I might as well keep on putting my new fics there as well. If the site deleted everything and started anew or something, I would feel no need to go back.

I think I lost my point somewhere in this ramble, so I'll just shut up now XD