[ SECRET POST #5210 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5210 ⌋

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


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[The Owl House]


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[Black Mirror]


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04.
[Grey's Anatomy]


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05.
[The Rookie/ Mass Effect]


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06.
[Eternal Love]












Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 33 secrets from Secret Submission Post #746.
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

Wattpad & Other FF Sites

[(Anonymous)]

I haven't really read any wattpad stories (as apparently you need to have an account most times to access certain material? Idk. I also get the feeling the demographic tends to skew younger, but whatever) but damn do they have good covers for their fics lol. Half of them look like movie posters or album covers! Lmao

I remember when someone making a banner for a fic was a big deal (to me at least, esp. if it was a reader for a story I wrote), now you've gotta have promo images too?

Please share your experience of wattpad (and/in comparison to any of your preferred FF sites)!

Re: Wattpad & Other FF Sites

[(Anonymous)]

Wattpad is annoying to read on because of the layout and ads but I love the covers too! I wish AO3 had that option because I like being able to browse covers before reading summaries.

Re: Wattpad & Other FF Sites

[(Anonymous)]

I've seen a bunch of Ao3 fics with banners/covers at the start of the fic and I think that's neat. I wouldn't want fic writers to feel like they 'have' to do anything else.

Re: Wattpad & Other FF Sites

[(Anonymous)]

I haven't gone to Wattpad yet, I haven't really felt the pull. I'm pretty invested in Ao3s tagging system so trying to go back to FFN or learn a new site like Wattpad is more than my quarantine-fogged brain can handle.

Do they also host fan art? Because if they're doing covers they must have some pretty good artists in there.

Fan sites have certain gravitational pulls, and that's partly down to when they were at their biggest. Like FFN probably has more HP and LOTR fic than all the rest of the world put together, while AO3 has MCU and Sherlock for days. I'm not sure what Wattpad has, bandom? Kidnapping? Trapped In An Island With Josh Hutcherson? I'm assuming they have an app that is optimized for mobile browsing and this covers thing reminds me of early ipod browsing so that's neat. But there's this vibe that any one who's anti-ao3 is pro conservative/purity based censorship and that just doesn't gel with what I want or what I've heard is popular on Wattpad. I honestly need guide or an advertising blitz or something.

At the end of the day I'm old and tired; I probably won't get into it unless a writer I love moves there exclusively or I get into a new fandom that's blown up on WP.

Re: Wattpad & Other FF Sites

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

For the record, the only fics I've read on WP gave been shitty fics that take a band and turn the lead (or whoever is the writer's face) and turn them into Dark! Whoever they are. The quality is...lacking, but I can't look away lol. I always appreciate people doing what they like however, and I don't like shitting on someone's creative activities, even if I'm just shaking my head, wondering why I'm still reading this brain melting drivel. I do feel that Ao3 has higher quality. There's plenty to sift through, but quality abounds.