[ SECRET POST #5587 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5587 ⌋

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 42 secrets from Secret Submission Post #800.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

there, there, OP, it's alright, get it off your chest. We've all been there. XD It's good to vent sometime! I have a few petty, unreasonable things I hate about some fic, I have nobody to tell about them (without sounding like a total Grinch), and it eats me from the inside.

As for the formatting, SAME. Somehow, these wrong-as-a-choice fics are more annoying to me than usual SPAG fails. I don't encounter it often, but I've read at least one fic that had a really intriguing premise but was written in full lowercase, with non-standard quotemarks, spaces around punctuation and I. WHY. WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT.

I'm usually okay with the non-standard, or I guess "genre", type of stylistic choices. I know imagines, experimental format, second-person fic and so on isn't "normal fic", but the thing is, AO3 isn't only for fic! It's an archive of transformative work. If you want to archive the rough "what if!!!" outlines you wrote for your friends to squee over, because you love them and don't want them to disappear the next time a corporate-run site goes under, it 100% belongs on AO3.

All that said, people should probably get better at tagging these so they can be filtered out. ("That's why we HAVE a wizard filters!")

That, and I'd personally prefer if they put shorter things into one chaptered "work". I know it has its downsides (tag walls, unrelated content in fandom & ship tags), but it's easier to read and less spammy, IMO. (lol, shoutout to that one time a writer I've been tracking dumped their entire collection of Tumblr prompt request ficlets onto AO3, one per work, and totally swamped my inbox. I mean you do you, writer, but holy crap, that was sure something. XD)