[ SECRET POST #5030 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5030 ⌋

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


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 21 secrets from Secret Submission Post #719.
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)]

There was a big article about Snape wives that went around somewhere recently

[feotakahari]

I recently saw someone get really, really offended about an article that compared Snapewives to people who fall in love with serial killers: https://www.jezebel.com/consider-the-snapewife-1845247730

[(Anonymous)]

I can't think of any adaptation that does Irene Adler any justice, but this one was pretty terrible.

[greghousesgf]

Yeah, I didn't like that either.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm the opposite I guess. High School AUs that are about the "bad crowd" type of kids who party a lot and have no parental supervision are similar to my HS experience. I read them out of nostalgia.

[(Anonymous)]

That's the point at which I stopped watching. I didn't even watch the rest of that movie.

[(Anonymous)]

I mean, I think SPN goss and the J2 tinhatting (yes, it's still going!) is way worse than Snapewives.

What were you like in high school?

[(Anonymous)]

Or are? Do we still have teens? I think most of us are fandom olds now.

Re: What were you like in high school?

[(Anonymous)]

I was an emo weeb for the first two years and then an emo theater kid for the last two.

[(Anonymous)]

Oooh I see, thanks. This secret is the first time I've heard them mentioned in ages.

[(Anonymous)]

Are they any worse than otherkin or whatever the ones who say they have fictional characters as alternate personalities like someone suffering with DID?

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT Yeah i've been in fandom a very long time and I never once saw a high school or coffee shop style au until the late noughties. It was all canon divergence. Maybe it was the fandoms I was in.

[(Anonymous)]

LOL that Holmes and Watson get manly heroic poses and poor Irene is sitting like she just shat herself.

Re: What were you like in high school?

[kaijinscendre]

A boring nerd.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah that's the one I was thinking of

Re: What were you like in high school?

[(Anonymous)]

Yep, same here.

Let me introduce you to Babygate.

[(Anonymous)]

https://fanlore.org/wiki/Babygate

I consider this worse because it didn't involve characters, but real people - tinhatting, off-the-wall conspiracy theories, harassment, mainstream media news stories.

[(Anonymous)]

There are two different types of AUs.

One is the kind you're talking about: canon AUs, where you change one particular aspect of the canon and write about how the canon would have changed had this thing happened/not happened.

The other is taking the characters and slotting them into a different setting. For instance, I have one friend who wrote an AU where she took the characters from one particular canon and rewrote them into another canon, giving them appropriate histories/backgrounds to make them fit into the new canon while also staying as true to their original incarnations as possible. I would personally say that if someone does this type of AU but makes no attempt to recreate the characters' history/backgrounds within the new setting (within the constraints of the new setting, obviously, because there are many things you won't be able to replicate exactly), that's just lazy, poor writing all around.

Re: What were you like in high school?

[(Anonymous)]

Nondescript smart kid, and my friends were all like indie nerds and stage crew dorks and emo geeks and that kind of thing

[(Anonymous)]

I take it you never heard of the House of FFVII/FFVII Cult and the Sephiroth wives that predate snapewives.

They make snapewives look tame.

[(Anonymous)]

It seems like every time someone takes fandom way too far someone else takes it as a challenge.

Re: What were you like in high school?

[mdtsk]

A mentally ill mess. I was getting treatment, but it was very poor and not at all what I needed. It actually got so bad that I ended up having a full on panic attack and had to drop out halfway through my senior year. But even if I had managed to pull through and finish out the year, I wouldn't have graduated anyway because I had missed too many days.

[(Anonymous)]

Non-canon AUs are interesting because they allow you to ask, on the one hand, how do you reinterpret the dynamics of these characters and their relationships in a totally different genre? And second, what new things about these characters and their relationship, what new angles and new spins, can we get out of this new totally different setting? So it's not about getting rid of their history, it's about reimagining that history in a different context.

Obviously that's, like, a best case scenario and lots of AUs are just cookie cutter but I like them a lot when well executed

Re: What were you like in high school?

[(Anonymous)]

Music Geek. I was in marching band, concert band, and choir, and I used to cut study hall to hang out with my friends in the music room.

[(Anonymous)]

I want to note (as someone with DID) that introjects of fictional characters are actually common, and not just an internet thing, though of course some people are flippant and weird about the concept online. A lot of people don't know that, and the concept can be kind of strange to wrap your head around if you're not familiar with it, but it's completely possible to have fictives in a DID system.