[ SECRET POST #5551 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5551 ⌋

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


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[Iron Widow, by Xiran Jay Zhao]



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[Venom]


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04. https://i.imgur.com/M0aDyxc.png
[OP warned for NSFW image]


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06. [SPOILERS for In Sound Mind]
























Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 00 pages, 00 secrets from Secret Submission Post #794.
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

Re: Writing Thread

[ofc_nonny]

What do you think about being a fanfic reader and a fanfic writer?

I personally read a lot of Game of Thrones fanfics but have never (and probably will never) write any fics for the fandom.

My main fandom, I don't read a lot of fics in the fandom, but I write a lot for it.

Also, I'm very critical of my own works but as a reader, I tend to be forgiving. Even if a fic falls under a lot of bad fanfic cliches so long as the premise and characters keep me engaged I'll read it.

Re: Writing Thread

[(Anonymous)]

I have a lot of fandoms, but I only write for maybe three of them. I'm in the middle of writing a series for one of them and it's kinda daunting 'cause I know where I want it to go, but it's gonna take a lot of work and I'm not very confident in my abilities. I read fic for all my fandoms and, as long as the fic hits all my favorite tropes and doesn't have too many errors or isn't super OOC, I'll be happy with it. I'll always leave kudos on fics I liked, but I'm a teensy bit petty with comments because I won't leave one if the author doesn't reply to their comments.

Re: Writing Thread

[pantswarrior]

I kind of stopped reading fanfic when I started writing Star Trek because I was worried that with such a big fandom, anything I wrote would have already been written - and in fact a little ways into writing a story, I was recced a really popular fic that turned out to have some similarities to what I was writing, and I immediately thought "oh no what if people think I'm copying this fic? Or some other fic? Or what if I unconsciously adopt someone else's headcanon and it affects the story I would write?" So I stopped reading Trek fic until after I'd finished writing that story... and just kind of never started again because I had more to write that I didn't want to be accused of copying anyone else on.

And then I just kind of... kept doing that with other fandoms. If I was writing in it, I didn't want to read in it because if someone else had written something similar then I could say with absolute certainty that no, what I wrote was not derivative of any other story.

And yeah, I was way more forgiving with other people's stuff than with mine. I will sit here and agonize over one sentence that doesn't flow right. If I saw that in another person's fic, I'd just move on to the next sentence, if I even noticed. :P I guess the thing is, I don't have control over other people's fic and assume they're doing the best they can - and it's fanfic so that should be enough, and I appreciate it. I do have control over my own fic, however, and I am a perfectionist so nothing I do is ever good enough.