[ SECRET POST #6225 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6225 ⌋

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


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 43 secrets from Secret Submission Post #890.
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

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Name the fandom. And repeats, etc.

(If you think something in this thread is a troll, please ignore it! Conversation is fine, but OT wank makes stuff harder to keep track of in this thread. Thanks.)

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01. https://i.imgur.com/SD5IrSw.jpg

[(Anonymous)]

I put caveats on some of the things I like and dislike all the time. I guess I don't want them to think I like or dislike something for the wrong reason. Because I don't want anyone to deride me or disregard my opinion because of my taste. But sometimes I really don't care one way or the other what people think of me for liking or disliking something, it just depends on how strong my preference is, how important that something is to me, how much I care about others' opinions of my opinions of that something.

I like horror comedy, too. I've never seen this one, though. Some of favorites are An American Werewolf in London, The Monster Squad, Love at First Bite, Gremlins, Beetlejuice, The Witches of Eastwick, Tremors, Tucker & Dale vs Evil, Happy Death Day, Happy Death Day 2U, Freaky, and Love and Monsters. And yeah, I have caveats on some of them, but I'll spare you. Ones I also like (and have so many more caveats on them that it's making me a little anxious to think about listing them without, but I'll refrain) are The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Ghostbusters (1984), Once Bitten, Critters, The Lost Boys, High Spirits, The 'Burbs, Ghostbusters II, Gremlins 2: The New Batch, Ghost, Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992), Addams Family Values, The Frighteners, Scream, Scream 3, Scream VI, Lake Placid, Scary Movie, Scary Movie 2, Scary Movie 3, Shaun of the Dead, The Cabin in the Woods, Goosebumps, Krampus, Zombieland, and Zombieland: Double Tap. You know, in case you were looking for more to watch.

[(Anonymous)]

I feel you!
I was critiqued a lot for my taste by my parent figure as a child. "Oh no, this cartoons (absolutely appropriate for your age) are stupid why wouldn't you watch this movie. Etc etc" I've been adult for a long time now but still I have trouble sharing things I like. I always need to discuss all the flaws before. Damn this sucks.

[(Anonymous)]

Typically my only caveat is "this is so dumb, I love it"

But I grew up in a household that LOVED watching B-horror & cheesy old sci-fi flicks, so we all enjoy (arguably) bad movies.

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02. https://i.imgur.com/ChhqpHl.jpg

[(Anonymous)]

most of them file off the serial numbers and then submit it to Amazon self publishing.

i agree that there’s a difference between fanfic with the serial numbers filed off and original fiction. it doesn’t mean i can’t enjoy the former or look down on anyone who does, but i am aware there is a huge leap in the creative and crafting departments.

[(Anonymous)]

IIRC from my time in Twilight fandom when that was the really big thing, there wasn't much in the way of disclosure about things being fics previously until Fifty Shades, when the publisher realized they could benefit from the fanbase already built for Twilight that would follow that particular writer. Note E.L. James's other works have been failures in comparison.

I've seen other authors do the serial file-off but branch into original work pretty quickly. Some are self-published, but I feel like in the past decade or so, agents have been actively pursuing popular fic writers.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm not super familiar with how it works but I assume most fic that gets the serial numbers filed off and published as original fiction are setting change AUs where the characters have completely different jobs and so the author had to introduce them and where they are in their life anyway/what is their major source of incompleteness in this particular setting. I think that makes it easier to turn the fic into an original novel because unlike most fic that relies on the audience already knowing the characters, you have to establish who they are/what their current situation is/what their relationship is with the world they live in. If you've done that and have already written fic that is at least novel-length with (e.g.) a romance novel structure already, I'm guessing it's pretty easy to turn it into original fiction.

[(Anonymous)]

An old fandom acquaintance has done this with her HP fanfiction by self-publishing. It's still magic and wizardry, but since the fanfic was already AU, filing off the serial numbers was a bit easier, I think? I haven't read it, but if I didn't already know its roots, I don't think I'd necessarily think Harry Potter right off, there are enough differences and the similarities are (as they were when Rowling wrote her series) fairly common.

[(Anonymous)]

So for the Reylos who are trad published, from what I understand generally it has been the agents coming to them. Much of what has been put out was already a Modern AU, so it wasn't hard to file off the Star Wars serial numbers. The Hurricane Wars is the first Star Wars canon-based fic that I can think of that has been published, so the author had to redo her world building. There have also been authors who reach out to publishers. Cait Corrain shopped a fic around and nobody took it, but she did get enough interest that her original book was picked up.

As the agents/publishers are aware of the origin of the author's work, there's no need to disclose.

I can't imagine, in a post-50 Shades of Gray world, that there is much stigma left on publishing former fanfics.

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[(Anonymous)]

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I think I watched about a half-hour of that movie (series?) and gods, I was bored to death.

[(Anonymous)]

Battle Beyond the Stars? Wasn't that the one with John-Boy and the pregnant moose of a spaceship?

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[(Anonymous)]

I agree. I don't like them, but their harmonies are glorious.

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[(Anonymous)]

Sorry, I know it's not the point here - and in fact is very much the opposite of the point. But my main takeaway from this secret is Evil Willow Hot.

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06. https://i.imgur.com/wDR6ZbP.png

[sabotabby]

Same ngl.

Somewhere I have a graphic that I made about the things that I thought the show was about, based on what I'd absorbed from fandom. It was hilariously wrong.

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[(Anonymous)]

It's not evil to have money, or to use that money on helping your children start off in life. No one's embarrassed that they set up a college fund for their kids. Why does everyone have to start from the bottom to make their success matter?

What the Swifts did for Taylor was a risk - they decided to invest a lot of money in their child, and it happened to pay out exponentially. Wanting a better life for your children is also not evil, even if their life is fine as it is.

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[(Anonymous)]

LOL thank you for sharing this tidbit. it blows my mind that the TMNT fandom can sustain itself without all the delicious WINcest, but it turns out they're finding loopholes to still make it happen. go figure!

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What're you up to tonight?

[(Anonymous)]

I'm currently trying to catch up with old Critical Role eps. Only kind of half into it, the other half of my attention is looking up old fic that makes me laugh 'cause I'm in a shitty mood.

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Games thread!

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