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[ SECRET POST #6971 ]

⌈ Secret Post #6971 ⌋

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Edited 2026-02-06 00:37 (UTC)

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I tell people that I will read their fanfics... but then I never do... their writing styles and/or the subject matter of their fics just really don't appeal to me. But I keep writing my own fanfics and sharing them and they read them. I just feel bad I don't really want to return the favor.

There are people whose fics I do read-- people whose style I DO vibe with, sometimes people who I might not read if we were both in a big fandom but appreciate because they're the only other writer for a small one... but oh man, I felt so bad recently about someone whose fic I just could NOT read.

They said REALLY nice things about a fic I'm still really proud of my work on for a fandom I left (that is, I stopped watching the show however many seasons back)... and they linked me to a thing they wrote that for a variety of reasons I knew I could not read-- fandom and ship reasons, not quality of writing reasons! But I had really wanted to be able to.

Eh, if you don't read reciprocally it's no big deal, but if you don't read any other fanfic but your own, I think you miss out on a lot.

I don't write but me with recs.
My friend for example recommended K-pop RPF AU fic because it was "good even without knowledge" and I noped out so hard

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A recent thing my part of the fandom has been whinging about is people posting their fanfic pet peeves and how it discourages writers and is rude. Even when you don’t mention any specific fics. I roll my eyes every time someone says that. We can talk about personal things we hate.

I completely get that it can be discouraging. When you like and/or make some specific type of thing, it can be unpleasant to hear that people hate it, especially if it feels like a repetitive complaint. And people do tend to complain about what they hate a lot more than they celebrate what they love.

But I also agree with you that you've got to let people vent about that kind of thing. Preventing those comments is exactly where I start to feel "toxic positivity" pressing in.

I think it helps a lot when the platform allows people to tag their complaints and people who don't want to see that can just scroll by.

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I don't consider myself much of a fan of Bruce Springsteen but listening to "Waitin' On a Sunny Day" is making me ugly cry

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Floatheadphysics could literally explain the secrets of the universe, and I'd still be too annoyed to watch his videos, because his talking style of putting words into the mouths of other people irritates me so much.

Great scientific explanations, but fuck dude, why does he talk like that? Urgh, it's like nails on chalkboard to me.

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As soon as a content creator gets openly religious, I drop them. Casual cultural stuff like "bless you" or whatever I can ignore, jokingly thanking their deity/deities of choice I can ignore, mentioning they are something in their private life is debatable depending on what it is and how serious they sound, but being an outright, straightforward believer on camera? Genuinely saying they think some deity helped them or interfered with their lives and is totally real? Nope nope nope unsub unfollow quit patreon block

Me too.

And it's not a thing I'd admit to more widely, but on FS I can confess that simply finding out a creator is religious changes my opinion on them. I do try to resist that bias in myself and sometimes it works, especially if they're usually quiet about it.

Same

I honestly find this a little weird. Religious views, regardless of what they are, don't bother me until they start taking over the creator's content or unless they are the type of religious views that come with things like racism or thinking everyone who doesn't agree with your views is going to hell or something like that.

I'm not weirded out by religious views any more than I'm weirded out by any views or beliefs different than mine. I only start caring when it becomes something that is harmful to others.

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I don't really care as long as religion doesn't "take over" their content. Which has happened a few times with some vloggers I (un)followed years ago.

Same.

I don't know, once I find a creator is (openly) religious I just lost any connection with their work. I will absolutely judge people based on this, too.

Bands, authors, artists, all of them. The moment you start thanking Jesus or I find out you're a mormon or whatever, I'm out.

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