[ SECRET POST #4868 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4868 ⌋

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

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[(Anonymous)]

The Witcher?

[des_pudels_kern]

That was my first thought, too. I have seen anons leaving condescending comments that an author got X wrong and completely misrepresented Y and anyway they should stop writing fic until they've read the books at least. They finished this off with something along the lines of 'I'm telling ou this to help you!'

As long as they don't bother writers I'm sympathetic; I understand that it is frustrating to have this surge of new fanworks in your fandom that is often completely at odds with the canon you know. But it's inevitable now - I've only watched the show, but from what I've read on the internet it added things (e.g. the magical eels in Aretuza and the orgy scene), changed characters and relationships (Triss is less likeable, I'm told, and Geralt very openly cares about Dandelion while show!Geralt spends the entire 20 years of their friendship acknowledging hm as a friend), and both of these are canon. Many show!writers also like to pick and choose which bits of book and game canon they incorporate to flesh out their stories, so there are hybrid stories everywhere.

That said, power to everyone who refuses to do any research. I only wanted to look up how to write Duny's real name and found out something about him that is bound to be a huge twist in the show.

[(Anonymous)]

I've been in a lot of smaller (often micro) fandoms where like... I'm dying for anyone to join-- not even 'I hope there are more content creators', but like... 'I hope someone else likes this enough to TALK to me about it', but that said...

Because of the settings of some of those fandoms, it would drive me CRAZY to have people come in and create stuff or throw around headcanons without doing ANY research. Especially because some of them are set in eras where I've done a LOT of research and where the details are super important to me. So as much as my experience with small fandoms has mostly consisted of wishing for more people... I get what you mean.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah I felt this way about a few video game fandoms. For example with Sally Face, I was really happy that it was getting more notice - but then the fans got...ew.

[(Anonymous)]

Now I want to know which fandom this is.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm guessing Good Omens? The quality of the new stuff is meh.

[(Anonymous)]

Good Omens has been huuuge since it got published, then went through a mini-renaissance in the fandom thanks to tumblr.

[(Anonymous)]

It wasn't huge in the early noughts. It was alive but niche and the fic quality was superb.

[(Anonymous)]

To me it was always a big fandom from the start. Not huge like Star Trek or Potter, but it was still big due to all the Gaiman and Discworld fans getting their nerd on. I remember it being really big in irl book club meetings and conventions (UK), forums and LJ.

[(Anonymous)]

This happened with the MDZS fandom after The Untamed came to Netflix. The amount of fic where, just one example of many, female characters suddenly take up the surnames of their husbands after marriage is... interesting.

[(Anonymous)]

I was thinking this too....I'm not in the fandom but it seems like the popularity has exploded recently.

It kind of reminds me of the early 2000s anime fanfiction where there was random Japanese thrown around everywhere. I guess it will take some time for everyone to gain a good level of cultural knowledge via internet osmosis lol

OP

[(Anonymous)]

Not about any of the fandoms people have guessed— it's a fictional setting with real-world elements that have a real-world history (a lot of fanworks treat everything in the setting as a wacky fictional thing when it's not, and I wish more people would do even the most basic research to avoid some really obvious shitty missteps). I know this might sound pretentious without more context, and I do try not to let fics that just aren't to my taste annoy me, but there's some that are just... really... bad, let's leave it at that.

It's also just weird seeing the fandom move so much faster than before. Not a complaint, but different.

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

The style of setting sounds like my kind of thing, so now I'm interested to know what it is...