[ SECRET POST #5387 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5387 ⌋

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Name the fandom. And repeats, etc.

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Games thread!

[(Anonymous)]

Usually it's because the show is dumb but the characters are hot and it's popular in fandom so there's lots of good romance and smut

I can just google what the characters look like, I don't need to know the details

[(Anonymous)]

I don't get it either, I need to have the emotional attachment to the characters to want to search out fic otherwise they're just blank cardboard cut-outs with nothing that entices me to dig deeper. Even smut doesn't work for me unless I know the characters, the emotional investment is key to my enjoyment of fic.

I don't judge people if they do this to be clear, I just find it confusing.

[(Anonymous)]

Ever wonder what would happen if a Furby mated with a Porg and the offspring just happened to also be the Antichrist?

From the makers of Dug Days and Finding Dory...

[(Anonymous)]

As far as mascots go, this one is pretty cute and it looks very soft, so yeah, no judgement here.

[greghousesgf]

to me this thing's just goofy looking but I never saw those commercials five years ago.
Porgs, on the other hand, are pure nightmare fuel to me. eurgh.

[(Anonymous)]

Yep.

Perfectly adorable. I get where you are coming from, nonny.

[rudehannibal]

I discovered my latest obsession and new favorite show from reading fic of it! I was reading Prodigal Son fic because I liked the show and I love LDP and found a good whump story of his character and was like 'I wonder if the author has written more of this?'. She hadn't, but I was intrigued by the summary of a fic from Longmire and decided to read it and Googled the characters and was like 'wait that's LDP!' and read the story and loved it and decided to watch the show and fell in love with it and the characters.

Additionally, I have friends who aren't in certain fandoms who read my stories from them. I've convinced at least one friend to watch the source material because she liked the fic concepts and characters enough (hilariously it is the same author that got me to watch Longmire). Another won't touch the show but they'll read the fic because it's 'hot' and they just Google who everyone is and assume I know what I'm doing lol.

That being said, I'm being talked into watching two different shows so I can write fic about the characters because I CAN'T do that (and there's no fic in these small fandoms yet/anymore anyway).

[(Anonymous)]

Why don’t you want to write it OP? Do you not want to put characters from fandom B in that situation? Are you not interested in writing a similar story? I recommend identifying why you don’t want to and talking to that person about it. Suggest an alternative option that you are interested in writing.

I think it’s cool that you write birthday fic for people but it shouldn’t be stressful. And they should understand if you’re not interested. I hope you can sort it out and have fun with it.

[pantswarrior]

There are times I can, when the author goes to the trouble to actually introduce the setting and characters instead of just dropping the reader into the middle of things and assuming they already know who or what all the names mean and how the politics/magic/relationships work.

I mean I have friends that have never played my favorite game, but they read my fic for it, and I assume it works out for them because the first story in the series pretty much is one of the canon characters being introduced to all the weird stuff that makes Valendia different from just "faux-medieval-France", so they learn the characters and setting along with this character as he begins his pre-canon adventures (and meets his ride-or-die XD). And I've read some long chaptered AUs for fandoms I don't know because well, they're creating a different version of the story and characters so it doesn't matter that I don't know the canon version. It basically reads like original fic.

But I mean... that kind of takes effort and a lot of words. So if you're talking about quick and easy reads in a fandom where you're unfamiliar with canon, I can't do that either. But hey, whatever floats someone else's boat.

[(Anonymous)]

It’s super cute and I want a stuffed version too OP!

[pantswarrior]

*laughs* I actually didn't find Furbies (Furbys? Furbi?) creepy like a lot of people apparently did, but this is such an apt description of ... whatever this is. I apparently did not see these commercials either.

[(Anonymous)]

Honestly, I've done this before, but with a game I hadn't played at the time. The writer was a friend and I knew their writing skills were good. The game was Kingdom Hearts, and within the next few months, I had played and beaten the first two games. So you could say reading fic for unfamiliar fandoms might get you into the fandom.

I've also received comments on multiple fics where the reader expressed interest in a game or a show because of what I wrote.

But folks who just read fic and never get into the fandom? Well, not sure about that, but it's not hurting anyone either, so...