[ SECRET POST #5238 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5238 ⌋

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


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 37 secrets from Secret Submission Post #750.
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

[case]

Name the fandom. And repeats, etc.

(If you think something in this thread is a troll, please ignore it! Conversation is fine, but OT wank makes stuff harder to keep track of in this thread. Thanks.)

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01. https://i.imgur.com/1bSvpGN.png

[feotakahari]

Endorsed. Your audience already knows your story is imaginary. You don’t need to make it double-imaginary within the story.

[(Anonymous)]

I always thought the “it’s all in Buffy’s head” episode was fantastic, and I kind of would have preferred it, actually.

[(Anonymous)]

I just want to say that this secret is very pretty! A+ secret design, OP!

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02. https://i.imgur.com/rbF9apj.png

[(Anonymous)]

I sure say it can.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm gonna be an asshole about this but I don't like seeing bad fanart and avoid all spaces where I might see it.

[(Anonymous)]

I love this secret.

Secret maker (but not the OP since this was a comment secret)

[(Anonymous)]

I hadn't heard of the two cakes rule, so I hope this is the right one. It sounded good, anyway!

[(Anonymous)]

I think the "two cake" rule applies only if both cakes taste good, looks are not everything, it is the content that counts. At least for cakes. But for fanart, looks are pretty much everything. In fanfiction, if a text looks kind of shit at first, one can still discover something deep within it that resonates with the reader, if the reader has the patience to read through the badfic until they stumble upon that gold nugget. In fanart, what you see is what you get, there is no deeper level...
So either git gud or draw an extremely niche thing that doesn't have any fanart whatsoever, that is the only way people will be happy to see it because the alternative is no cake instead of good cake.
Or you can always just participate in the exchange, if you don't care what people think about your art. I have seen fandom contest with pretty questionable art, so who says everyone else will be better than you.

[(Anonymous)]

Even though I have been asked to join fandom exchanges with my fan art - I'm always deathly afraid to do them in case they don't turn out good enough compared to my usual works.

[pantswarrior]

...To me it does? I mean when I had a personal site, sometimes I got gift art, sometimes of my favorite characters or even of my original characters. And sometimes it was drawn by people who were not by any stretch of the imagination "artists", but they found my fanstuff inspiring or interesting enough that they wanted to draw pictures about it and maybe send it to me, and I thought it was the sweetest thing in the world and displayed it all proudly in a gallery.

For that matter, I also used to run a fan art column on a gaming site, and sometimes I got stuff sent to me that people would complain about. ...It was literally drawn by kids who were like 8 years old and wanted to draw their favorite video game characters. I say good for them - keep at it. And a couple times it was someone who was an adult, but hadn't really drawn much before - and then I got to watch them get better and better as they sent in submissions over the years. And then I would get a private note with a submission at some point that was like "Thank you for posting my work, it really helped my confidence and kept me going when I thought I should stop trying."

So seriously. If the people you're drawing for aren't jerks, I would assume it would be taken in the same light. Maybe you're not "the best" artist, but you put effort into this thing for them/for the love of the fandom, and that makes it special.

[(Anonymous)]

I think two cakes, whether it's art or fic or else, kinda work better in a general fandom context rather than an exchange situation? Someone will have to react positively to your creation as a recipient, and as a creator, I'd rather that reaction was genuine, not out of obligation. I'm pretty confident about my art and I still dislike and don't do exchanges, tbh.
That said, people who do participate in exchanges are probably ready to get less than stellar art or fic and will be positive about anyway, so if you need encouragement, that's probably a good way to get some.

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[(Anonymous)]

What could possibly be the difficulty with tagging? Just write some keywords for your text, so people can find it. Surely you know what the fic is about, since you wrote it? I just don't get the problem. Pairing, genre, tropes, kinks, warnings - that just about sums up what needs to be in the tags.

But then again, some people write their whole-ass memoirs in the tags, so I guess some kind of tagging guide could be useful, since it is apparently not intuitive that the readers don't want to know what the author had for breakfast, that it's their first fic or that they have no idea what they are writing.

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[(Anonymous)]

God, he really was fucking good in those movies

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05. https://i.imgur.com/cTt5kMC.jpg

[(Anonymous)]

I don't think the book or the movies are particulary good, Gene Wilder is just really fucking charming in the 70s film.

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[(Anonymous)]

OP

Thank you for making my secret, secret maker!

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[kaijinscendre]

Fuckers driving their shitty raised truck with a Confederate flag while wearing their Captain America shirts and back the blue assholes (and cops) that show off their Punisher logo window decals need to be slapped with a book.

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NS, NF, etc.

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Official advertise your fandom-related event thread.

RULES FOR THIS:
1. NO images bigger than 600x600 in either direction (banners, et cetera).
2. ONE POST PER USER under this thread.
3. What IS allowed: roleplay advertisements, fandom comms, fandom events, things like that.
4. What is NOT allowed: anything for profit, any kind of fic/art commissions, seeking 1-on-1 RP, that kind of thing.

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Official clickables thread.

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1. NO huge images or columns of images that require scrolling, please.
2. ONE POST PER USER under in this thread.
3. If you're going to post, try to at least help the others.

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General comments:

(If the thread contains spoilery/triggery content please warn/post as 2nd comment so it collapses!
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Inspired by 4 - Actors you only find attractive in one specific role...

[(Anonymous)]

For me, I think it's probably Benedict Cumberbatch as Sherlock, but nothing else.

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