[ SECRET POST #6232 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6232 ⌋

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 32 secrets from Secret Submission Post #891.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

FWIW, I tend to think of those kinds of repeated requests less as "I didn't like the one I got" and more "this is my favourite trope/theme/idea and I want to read it a thousand different times in a thousand different ways, I just love it that much".

[(Anonymous)]

If it is something I'd really like then I'd ask for it a thousand times, even the same way, with only ever minor changes. It means you've completed and successfully zeroed in to exactly what the requestee really wants. It is a huge success, and a vote of endorsement.

[(Anonymous)]

As someone who has requested the same premise twice in fandom events: this. It's my favourite trope! I want to see it in as many variations as possible.

[(Anonymous)]

Tbh, it seems much more like "I just can't get enough and I want MOAR" than anything else and it's more helpful to think of it that way than to assume the worst and feel bad about it.

[(Anonymous)]

Yup. With my chosen kinks or tropes I will (and have) read thousands of fic with the same damn prompt/trope/kink over and over and over again.

[(Anonymous)]

I followed an author that had a series that they titled "The same story told different ways" or something like that, and I loved them for that. Just the same pairings, the same basic tropes, told in different ways over and over and over again.

[(Anonymous)]

Absolutely. I've read 1,000 identity porn fics and I will read another 1,000,000 identity porn fics if I have the opportunity.

[(Anonymous)]

Yup. I mean, in big fandoms I can create very complex searches in AO3 and then read the results all day long. With Yuletide, you have to make repeat requests :| Absolutely no reflection on the awesome gift makers. <3

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah for sure, I assume it's a two cakes situation. Like... I've asked for a thing, and when my gifter chose a different prompt, I started writing one myself, but I'll still ask for the same thing again because I want more takes on it.

[(Anonymous)]

+1

[meadowphoenix]

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[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, if i got a gift for a request and I didn't like it, I'd actually be scared to request it again.

[(Anonymous)]

Hmm, I'd say it depends on the kind of prompt used. If it's a very general prompt that could be interpreted in many different ways, then yes I could see reposting it as a "I just love this trope so much". But if it is a very detailed prompt that could only really be written one way, then a repost becomes a "I want what I already got, but by a different writer" and that certainly does not feel kind towards the first writer.

Though to be perfectly honest, even with the first kind of prompt, "the requester didn't fully like my writing so they're reposting the prompt in hopes of getting something actually good this time around" feels like a much more logical conclusion to come to than "the requester loved my writing so much they want other writers to write the same thing".

[(Anonymous)]

To your last point, it’s only logical if you don’t read much fanfic. As almost everyone else has pointed out, seeking out and reading every fic you can find about specific characters doing very specific things is so common that it’s a literal meme.

[(Anonymous)]

Fanfic is all I read for the past few years and I only do that for rarepairs that don't have much fic to begin with. Otherwise I always aim for variety

[(Anonymous)]

But other people want the same thing over and over again, as demonstrated by the responses in this thread.

[(Anonymous)]

Some do, but not everyone. OPs feelings are valid. They spent time and effort writing someone their dream fic, only to get a reaction of "thank you, next" and there's no way of determining what the requester's actual motives are.

[(Anonymous)]

I’m not sure how you think that telling OP that they should totally give in to their feelings of inadequacy over what is almost certainly a misunderstanding of prevalent fan culture is validating. That seems misguided at best, and cruelly manipulative at worst.

[(Anonymous)]

Just because your feelings are valid doesn't mean they're correct.

[(Anonymous)]

Idk if I'd ever call anxiety thoughts and feelings "valid." I mean they are real genuine feelings people are having, but giving power to illogical anxiety thoughts is a dangerous game.

[(Anonymous)]

Wow, you must have been super confused by all the memes and jokes about how authors worry about being how their story is going to be too close to someone else’s while all the readers just want to read the same plot written infinite ways. It’s like when aces figure out that the other kids were serious about having a new crush every other week.

[(Anonymous)]

It's so funny that you think that's a more logical conclusion when there's a whole thread here and a whole meme about wanting more of the same thing over and over. I get that you personally don't like to read the same trope over again, but you truly are in the minority in fandom and the minority is rarely the most logical conclusion. Your feelings are valid, but your logic is flawed.