[ SECRET POST #825 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #825 ⌋

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

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[Luke Pasqualino & Kevin Jonas]


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[The Office]


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[Monster & Watchmen]


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[Watchmen, Batman]


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[The Nostalgia Critic & Nostalgia Chick]


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[Ace Attorney]


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[Air Gear]


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[Monsters vs Aliens]


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[Dr Who]


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[Babylon 5]


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[Soul Eater]


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[Farscape]


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[Kat and Meg Prescott]


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[The Real Ghostbusters]


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[Eternal Summer]


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[Repo]


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 072 secrets from Secret Submission Post #118.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - 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

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136. http://i44.tinypic.com/2dbunao.png

[sistermagpie.livejournal.com]

LOL! Seems you've created a monster.

[postal152.livejournal.com]

I... do not know, bb, I'm sorry. But if you figure it out, let me know? (*cough* uh, my sister *cough*)

[vivalana.livejournal.com]

I've been making... a lasaaaagna! for one.

[postal152.livejournal.com]

;D

[mizuno-caitlin.livejournal.com]

This happened to me! ....except my friend is into incest fics now. Multifandom. :/ I'd almost prefer your problem.

Serious response is serious

[tacky-tramp.livejournal.com]

Maybe just tell her that's not your preferred sort of fic? Or ask her what kind of a beta she wants -- is she just looking for spelling/punctuation, or does she want broader criticism, and if so, is she prepared for you not to like her fic?

[ankeelv2.livejournal.com]

Hmm . . . maybe tell her you're too busy to do a proper job of it? And if she insists, say you're really not up for betaing right now. There doesn't have to be a real reason; sometimes people have the energy for it and sometimes they don't. It is a bit of work if you're doing a fine job of it and want it done well; and if you can just tell her you're really not up to it-- hopefully she can accept that.

[tinitrinity.livejournal.com]

136. Let her write it and get it out of her system. Who here can honestly say that when writing their first fanfics they weren't awful self-insert mary sues? Everyone has to start somewhere.

[soomka.livejournal.com]

OT but: god, how many times has this image been used in a secret?

[jennilee.livejournal.com]

lol

I was only planning to comment on this secret because it was so minimally and artfully done.

I've only been watching F!S for two week though, so I haven't seen it before.

[sophie-kaijuu.livejournal.com]

This was my first thought as well.

[flutingfrenzy.livejournal.com]

It's a fandom newcomer phase. She'll grow out of it. In the meantime, just tell her you don't want to beta.

[(Anonymous)]

Oh god, lol. Well, if I was a fandom newbie writing Mary-Sue fic, I'd want a friend to give me the heads-up that those kinds of fics aren't generally very well received. If she still wants to continue after hearing that? I just don't know. Good luck?

[omorka.livejournal.com]

Either tell her you're too busy to do a good job as a beta, or accept and point out every time her Dean is OOC. In the latter case, if she can't hack it, she'll stop asking you, and if she can, it'll improve her writing and everyone wins.

[cloudtwist.livejournal.com]

My sympathies =/

[(Anonymous)]

Point her to fanficrants :) They smite Mary Sues all the time.

[paperclipchains.livejournal.com]

Yeah, this would be a good idea if you want to illustrate to her that fandom is full of catty bitches...

[paperclipchains.livejournal.com]

136. Why not just beta it for her and wait? It's a phase most people go through, she'll come out of it.

[(Anonymous)]

Oh gawd, same thing happened to me - TWICE. First my best friend managed to make me hate Supernatural fandom since she got uber competitive and wanky with me and just could. Not. Get. How to be polite online and how cheesy and bad her fics were. I only got out of that by getting out of the fandom. We're cool now but it was touch-and-go between us for a while.

Then it was my sister, who adores self-insert gay smut fic with a side of ero guro, incest, and tentacle porn and all sorts of TMI (don't care if that's what she's into - I just don't share my internet history so I expect the same in kind). And then there's how she shares her self-insert Mary Stu (her as male) fics with everyone and people praise her incessantly (family included!) for them (OMG you should get this published! /so. much. legal. fail. D:) despite the horrific grammar (that's her "style!"), horrible spelling errors ("like that matters!"), and Mary Sues ("He has eyes that change color and white hair and loves blood! And he saves Dante all the time!"). All because I was tired of her being so homophobic and teased her with the existence of slash fic... so she just had to check it out... Woe.

Don't even get me started on my other sister who was heavily BNF into Twilight.

TL;DR:
OP, I think we should start a support group. xD

[tsukinofaerii.livejournal.com]

She just got started, so there's hope! First, make sure you know what she's asking for. People mean all sorts of different things when they say "beta". If she wants something comprehensive (and you think she'll actually accept concrit), you can either 1) back down with a flimsy excuse such as not being a good beta or 2) hold your nose, take the plunge and do your best to teach her how to write well.

You're not doing her a favor by hiding away from it. She needs someone to tell her "this is OOC" and "this isn't realistic", or else she'll never improve. She might not even know the tropes she's calling on, if she's that new to fanfic. We all started with Sues, unless we were very lucky. Drag her over to TV Tropes for a day (I do not kid myself that it will ever be less than that) and poke fun at the Sue Section. Maybe she really just loves OCs, but you can maybe keep her from falling into the Mary Sue trap.