[ SECRET POST #5085 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5085 ⌋

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


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Comments

dda

[(Anonymous)]

I've been a ficcer and around ficcers long enough to know that no, they're not writing that way because it's what they like. some are, maybe, but by far not all and you'd be surprised at how many people only realize in hindsight that they got it so wrong and wrote a terrible fic and end up deleting it out of embarrassment - see the other secret above.

it's very, very hard to tell when you click on text on the internet what the author intended, all you have to go on in their fic itself and not a telepathic link to their mindset at the time of writing, or posting, or ten years later. it's great to give people the benefit of the doubt but there are dozens of reasons someone's fic might come out OOC that don't add up to "it's what they like." short of getting into a back and forth in the comments or on a side blog/tumblr, if I find a fic OOC I'm just gonna backbutton out and block it from my mind, not try to find out whether the author has some particular preference that informs their fanon.

Re: dda

[(Anonymous)]

Of course, some people are just not writing well. There are a wide variety of people with different levels of skill, taste, etc. And that goes both ways - people look back on their past inability to write with horror and with shame, but they also look back on their old tastes with shame.

Also, if it was primarily about people who wanted to write in-character fics, then OOC fics wouldn't be popular with readers as well.