[ SECRET POST #4756 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4756 ⌋

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

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Notes:

Sorry it's so late, thought I posted this already.

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 28 secrets from Secret Submission Post #681.
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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

(Not OP but I feel where they're coming from) - I think being an adult is part of this, but I don't think it's all of it and maybe not even most of it. The lack of familiarity with tropes, yes, that's absolutely a huge part of it and it's much more difficult to find settings and media that I can really get into and sink my teeth into and enjoy these days.

But the rest of it? I'm really not all that nostalgic for stuff like Harry Potter or my other early fandoms. And I think it's basically true that there are different things that different fandoms are good at, and I definitely feel like the kind of thing that OP is talking about - the big, expansive fandom and world to run around in and explore - is quite hard to find.

[cloudtrader]

And I think it's basically true that there are different things that different fandoms are good at, and I definitely feel like the kind of thing that OP is talking about - the big, expansive fandom and world to run around in and explore - is quite hard to find.

Wasn't Harry Potter, like, the biggest online fandom ever? The juggernaut of its day, and still popular? I don't think ANYTHING will ever compare, particularly since I really do think that fandom is more fragmented then ever because there is so much content for everyone to explore.

[(Anonymous)]

Sure, that's fair, and the absolute size of the fandom is definitely a part of it.

[(Anonymous)]

Seconding this. I was into a HUGE fandom for quite a few years, up until a few months ago when I fell hard for a new OTP. Now I'm going stir-crazy, because my standards and expectations are set for a massive fandom, and the fandom I'm in is smallish.

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT - Hmm, there is that. The thing about HP that's so good for fandom is that is sort of sketches out this great big world, and leaves almost all of the actual details to the reader's imagination (apart from, of course, the minutiae of Hogwarts). I would say there are a few YA series that have a similar setup, but I don't know how many are quite as... flexible, I guess? as the Potterverse.
I mean, if you want to write semi-original stories set in the Rowling's wizarding world, you can have epic quests in far-off lands, political intrigue, or a rom-com set in a bookshop. All of those will work just fine, and the tone and setting won't clash with the presence of wands and flying broomsticks, because why would they?
But if you want to do the same thing with, say, The Hunger Games world? Um. I guess political intrigue fits right in, but if your characters leave Panem at the start of the story to head off into the wilderness and have adventures, it doesn't feel much like a Hunger Games story anymore. And as for the rom-com... awkward.

I guess that Naruto fills a similar sort of niche, going by some of the similarities between the fandoms, but that's over too, so IDK.
no Boruto doesn't count

[feotakahari]

This seems like it leads into a): My Little Pony, b): Dungeons and Dragons, or c): the crossover fic Mystara’s Little Ponies.

[(Anonymous)]

But this does also get into the point about, as you get older, your standards do get higher

Most dungeons and dragons campaign settings are quite bad, for example