[ SECRET POST #5296 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5296 ⌋

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


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 18 secrets from Secret Submission Post #756.
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/QLQDnP0.png

[ailurophile6]

And so my resolve to never, ever, read works in progress is confirmed

[(Anonymous)]

Oh, me too. I also get annoyed when readers start to make too many “predictions”/suggestions in the comments, personally. I have never even teamed up with another writer on a fic. I’m not about to turn one into a group project with random readers.

[kaijinscendre]

I can't remember the last time I read a WIP. Sometimes I even flip to the ending of a fic to make sure it isn't a bait and switch "first part of a series that will never end" or "abandoned but marked as completed" kind of story.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, that's not a good sign.

The author really great WIP I'm reading now will occasionally be like 'I'm not sure if I'm going to include that element/event/trait' and then either they do or don't. But I always feel like they know where the story is going even if they don't have it 100% mapped out. So what I'm saying is there are gradients.

Also I really like speculating in WIPs. It's fun for me, and I feel like it shows I'm engaged, and it's fun to get to type "I KNEW IT!!!!" If I accidently do it to an author with a stance similar to anon a couple replies above me they can just delete my comment.

[(Anonymous)]

tbh if I ever ask something of my readers, it's usually something suuuuuper trivial, like the color of a dress a character will wear. Stuff like that. I like seeing what people say and I don't mind opinions on stuff that really don't impact my story at all.

When it comes to my actual plots, I ignore any suggestions, though I do encourage speculation because I like seeing where peoples' minds go.

[(Anonymous)]

I never learn my lesson with WIPS.
I'm pretty sure there's more than 10 WIPs I have bookmarked on AO3 when they were being updated regularly, before they eventually slow down to not updating ever again. Like, I know that life happens and I would never be one of those assholes who get mad in the comments demanding another chapter - but it still sucks when a story you're invested in just stops (and omg I remember about 4 of them that stopped on a cliffhanger or right in the middle of a slowburn - those times alone nearly destroyed me because I so badly wanted to know what happened next).

But sometimes the summary is that interesting and the tags has everything I want in a story, so I tend to say fuck it and jump straight in in hopes I won't get abandoned. I have to admit I haven't come across anyone saying something like what the secret has stated - but I have come across people who won't update until they get a certain amount of comment and get mad about it.

[(Anonymous)]

I'd be all right with it if the author made it clear from the beginning that they had no real plans. Throwing at the readers midway through the story seems kind of lame, though.

[(Anonymous)]

By the time I actually start posting, I have enough of the story drafted (not just in my head; my head is not reliable) that I feel confident I won't get stuck. I may take some things that readers say into account here and there, but the basic plot is set. And I do like to mention in the first A/N how committed I am to the story, how many words I've already written just in rough draft, because I know people can be wary... but I don't know how much good that does. I mean, I'm sure readers have seen that sort of declaration before and then still been disappointed by a promising story getting abandoned anyway. They're all jaded!

But man... it's just not a good idea to get your chapter content from readers like that! What happens when they have conflicting ideas? Which they will. You can't make everyone happy, and if you try, you won't have a coherent story in the end.

Also, I suspect that people who tell me they only read completed works, and then never actually read my stuff after I DO complete it, are simply letting me down easy because they know they'll never read it and just don't want to say so.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah that's always so annoying. I have my own stories to write, why am I supposed to contribute ideas to someone else's story?

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02. https://i.imgur.com/4VlcyWj.jpg

[(Anonymous)]

I recently got into The Untamed and reblogged a shitton of stuff on tumblr about it, and was so afraid I was doing this to someone that I threw it all in a queue that's going to take months to run out and tagged it so at least people could blacklist if they needed to

[(Anonymous)]

I've been on Tumblr for years and have had this happen to me (and I've done it myself as well, when there's been literal years between released new content for particular fandoms). I feel like it's just something that happens, tho: you follow someone for particular fandom content (or they follow you for the same reason), and sooner or later one of you drifts away from the shared fandom and gets into and starts posting some other fandom content. People's interests change over time, and if there's nothing new coming down the pike, people get bored/tired of the same old stuff all the time.

[(Anonymous)]

Are people not tagging properly? Blocking "Wang Ian" doesn't help?

I enjoy cdramas, but I totally understand about the gross gender stuff.

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[(Anonymous)]

For some reason this picture is really making me long for more fandoms where both the male and female leads have realistic body types and comfortable clothes.

I think it's because it's quite a cool dynamic pose, like a snapshot of friends walking while chatting,and I keep tripping up on how ridiculous the female characters' outfits and figures are.

IDK. Sorry， random.

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[(Anonymous)]

I don't have much to say other than I'm surprised I'm seeing a Jersey Devil secret. What an interesting, unique, obscure game. The aesthetic combined with the ps1 graphics can definitely make for an eerie time.

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[(Anonymous)]

Thank you very much for making my secret :)

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[meadowphoenix]

I have not seen him in a lot, and certainly not Saw, but honestly I think horror acting is actually more difficult than it seems. He's fine in comedies, imo.

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[(Anonymous)]

Tell us!

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