[ SECRET POST #6451 ]

[case]

⌈ Secret Post #6451 ⌋

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


01.



__________________________________________________



02.
[Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth]



__________________________________________________



03.
[The Serpent Queen / House of the Dragon]



__________________________________________________



04.



__________________________________________________



05.
[Dungeon Meshi]



__________________________________________________



06.



__________________________________________________



07.















Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 21 secrets from Secret Submission Post #922.
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

[(Anonymous)]

How does that work, exactly? Do you search AO3 by tags and choose based on that, or do you see a lot of people getting into a new thing and decide to check the fic before you look at the canon?

I'm not judging in the least, I just personally can’t even click with fic based on a part of canon I'm unfamiliar with. I don’t think I could read fic where I don’t know the canon at all.

[(Anonymous)]

da

But often a writer who makes things I like also writes for fandoms I'm not in. And a good (concise) tag list goes a long way towards recommending those stories even if the people in them are strangers to me.

I've also chosen stories based purely on interesting summaries or tags. On the one hand, fandom has tropes that it seems get adapted to EVERY canon in existence, but on the other ... sometimes there's unique gems where no one has written that for any fandom I'm in and I'm burning with curiosity about the premise. In which case, well. So what if I've never played a visual novel that was never translated in full from Japanese? It's as good an introduction to the characters as canon.

[(Anonymous)]

I've wondered that myself. I just assume they had a fandom friend who said "this fic might be right up your alley." Even if the friend didn't know the fandom.

[(Anonymous)]

Back in the day it was via rec lists or friends reccing a story. If it was someone I trusted to have similar tastes and it seemed interesting I wouod give it a try.

Now more often it is via authors. If there is an author I really love I will check out their works outside of my specific fandom.

A lot of the time I have a vague passing knowledge of the fandom, but sometimes I will go and look up a quick summary to get the gist of the world.

[azurelunatic]

Friend recs, enticing looking recs in fancake etc, and when an author I love goes into a new fandom sometimes I sample it because I'll try anything they've written. (This overlaps with friend recs because sometimes the author is also a friend or a significant other.)

(This sometimes works with pro writers too: I was indifferent to Spider-Man until I saw that Diane Duane had written a few books there.)

Teen Wolf, every imaginable kind of Stargate, the occasional Smallville, and probably more. The only fandoms where I consciously avoided fanworks until I'd consumed canon were Inception and Looper. (I think I still have Looper bookmarks I haven't come back to, because I haven't yet...)

It's easier for me to go fanwork first, and sometimes fanwork only, because I don't consume video content very well and therefore the source has to be really good for me to want to make the effort. I didn't develop the necessary skills when I was a kid. My roommates used to joke that the way to get me to leave the room was to turn on the TV, but I've now learned how to tune out sports (my anchor partner loves sports).

I will try to consume canon first if it's a book that's easy to get my hands on. (Plug here for ebooks via the library! See if your local library has the Libby app! See if your local library has overdue materials fine forgiveness! See if your local library has financial hardship fine forgiveness! Ebooks don't accrue overdue fines!)