[ SECRET POST #6864 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6864 ⌋

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


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[American Girl dolls]



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[Acotar/ Crescent City/Sarah J Maas]



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Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Nah, complaining isn't the problem. I say let's all complain.

While I think mild complaining is fine, I do think there is a point where complaining does become (part of) the problem. For example, if you complain about lack of longfic in a fandom and people in that fandom are already doing their best to work on and put out longer pieces, it can feel like "what you're doing isn't good enough" which is demotivating the few people who could potentially produce longfic. Or if you complain about lack of longfic in a fandom and there IS longfic, with almost no comments or feedback, same -- it will burn out the few people producing it because OP seems to be overlooking it/erasing it. Or if you spend all your time loudly complaining, complaining, complaining in a fandom, then a lot of people might be like "Wow, this fandom sucks, it's so whiny" and leave it, which means fewer people to potentially write longfic...

So yeah, a tendency toward complaining over any other activity such as positivity or engagement with existing long fics, I think absolutely CAN be part of the problem leading to less longfic, so you should be careful about how you do it and the tone in which you do it.

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SA.

Also, to be clear, I didn't think there was anything wrong with OP's secret! You can absolutely vent about missing longfic in your fandom, especially if you're one of the writers burnt out by trying to be the change. The only thing I took issue with was the statement that "complaining isn't the problem" -- I don't think that's *always* true.