[ SECRET POST #790 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #790 ⌋

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

101.


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102.
[BSG]


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103.
[The Land Before Time]


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104.


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105.
[Stranger Than Fiction]


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106.
[Sonny with a Chance]


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107.
[Psychonauts]


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108.


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109.
[Kaya]


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110.
[Looney Looney Looney Bugs Bunny Movie]


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111.
[Skins]


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112.


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113.


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114.


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115.
[Role Models]


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116.
[Heroes]


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117.


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118.
[David Cook, Highlander]


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119.
[Usagi Drop, Yotsuba, Aishiteruze Baby, and Clannad]


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120.
[SGA]


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122.
[21 Jump Street]


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123.
[The CollegeHumor Show]


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124.
[Metalocalypse]


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125.
[Make Me a Supermodel, The Prince of Tennis]


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126.
[rocknrolla]


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127.
[American Idol/Nick "Norman Gentle" Mitchell]


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128.
[BSG]


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129.
[Slayers]


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130.


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131.
[Gundam 00]


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132.
[Bones]


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133.
[Chuck]


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134.


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135.


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136.


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137.
[Slayers]


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138.
[Legend Of Galactic Heroes]


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139.


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140.
[Lolita]


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141.
[ushio okazaki]


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143.
[the minami family / hayate the combat butler]


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145.
[The Phantom]


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148.
[Ben Miller (Primeval)]


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149.
[Death Note]


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150.
[Harlem Beat wa Yoake made]


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151.
[Hard Candy]


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 68 secrets from Secret Submission Post #113.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 1 - broken links ], [ 1 2 3 4 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 1 2 3 4 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[tsukinofaerii.livejournal.com]

112. I write for myself. There's a lot of things that are never going to see daylight, because they're for me. Then there's some stories I write with another audience in mind too. So I put them out there for other people to enjoy, since it's silly to say "I wrote this with you in mind but you can't see it, neener neener". But when I take one of my fics (my babies) and out it out there, it makes me nervous and antsy about what people are going to think of it. Wanted reassurance that it's a worth-while story isn't "feedback whoring", it's knowing that you put your heart into something and being nervous about it. When I reply to a review, I'm not really thanking them for reading it. I'm thanking them for reassuring me that it was worth reading. But it goes both ways—if all they can say is the equivalent of "thanks", that leaves me wondering what in the world to say back.

Maybe if I put it a different way. This is a barter economy, but a weird one. I offer the story, in advance, with no guarantee of additional payment beyond the reward of having created it (which covers overhead costs in terms of emotion, or else I wouldn't still be writing after so many stories uncommented on). In return, they offer feedback if the story is worth the trade (profit!). After that 'deal' is done, for me, it's really a matter of personal preference as to how the discussion is closed or continued. If the review was elaborate, it signals to me that this person would like the discussion to continue. If it was only "good story", then I don't feel obligated to continue it because there's nothing to suggest they care about a coninued exchange. Personally, I feel embarrassed when someone leaves a small comment like that, because if they can't think of anything more to say, I feel like I failed to make a worthy offering. I'm much more likely to want the discussion closed because of that.

Of course, venue counts for a lot. I love reviews, even the "great fic, write more!" ones, but I want my readers to know that I care more about their feedback than as food for my ego. I just think that there's some significant site-culture differences, and that effects how I handle it. I reply to all of my readers on my LJ, unless I have reason not to. (Troll, etc.) But honestly, FFN's too cumbersome to reply in unless I'm going to say something more than an elaborate version of "thank you for reading". I feel like it's rude to give such a bland, unthinking response, but sometimes that's all you can give. Obviously I'm in the camp that hates disingenuous copypasta replies. Of course, I hate leaving copypasta reviews too, so hopefully I'm not too much of a hypocrite. When I review on FF.N, I don't expect a reply, but that's probably a hold-over from the days before they had a reply capability. LJ, however, is made for conversations, so to me it seems significantly ruder not to reply on LJ, even if it's only fifty different ways of saying "thank you for reassuring me that I can write".

Urgh, I'm rambling today. TL;DR, if you want a reply to your comments, the best bet is to make sure there's something to reply to. I don't feel it's the author's fault for not feeling the need to spend ten seconds in return for the reviewer's ten seconds.

114. Don't know what that series is and I don't care, but for goodness sakes, aren't we past using minority epithets as insults?

119. When you get around to motherhood, OP, feel free to have my share. The world needs mothers who want to be mothers.

135. ... I think I love you OP. I do that sort of thing with almost all of my music. The Pretender by the Foo Fighters? Was made for Harry in book five.

No, really, it would be perfect stop looking at me like that! ¬¬

142. Is there a new trend going around that can be described as "end a secret with a random insult"?

146. I see what you did there. :| Not cool. (reaches for the eyeball bleach)