[ SECRET POST #7025 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #7025 ⌋

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


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[Multifandom fanwork exchanges on Dreamwidth]



















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Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 18 secrets from Secret Submission Post #1003.
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.

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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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DAILY LINKS:

General comments → Off-topic discussion thread

Games thread → Thread for games/memes/etc.

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I'm tired of hearing about Chappell Roan.

Good, bad, or neutral, I'm just tired of seeing her in the news.

Her music is catchy af but I feel like we should just let her be for awhile.

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The latest episode of Survivor finally had an actual celebrity appearance, from Zach Brown, a country singer. It wasn't *quite* as bad as I was fearing and they did integrate it into the episode well, but at the same time, I'm watching Survivor to watch normal(ish) people fight through this social/mental/physical game. I'm not watching it to see celebrities. It ate up a lot of time they could have used more on the contestants.

Plus, I know that a Mr. Beast cameo is coming at some point, and I am DREADING that. It may finally make the show truly jump the shark.

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When people refuse to admit a dated thing is dated, I stop trusting their taste. By dated, I'm talking about media that's like 20+ years old, here. 1990s and 2000s stuff.

I understand that at some point, these things were bold for their time. Or unique for their time. Or progressive in various ways, for their time. And it's good to give credit for that.

But when people refuse to acknowledge they're dated in ANY way... they're either one of those people who haven't actually watched the thing they claim to love in years and/or are willfully in denial, or they're one of those old people that think everything in their teens/20s was peak and have refused to move on. Or both.

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I am so sick of pedantic nerds who have to respond to general statements with outlier single datapoints, as if they are fucking relevant, in fandom discussions. Your one outlier is not the "gotcha" card you seem to think it is, you fucking asshole.

Pedants need to leave fandoms, generally speaking.

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Andor Season 1 is entirely skippable. It is dull, dragging, and boring. Andor Season 2 fucking rocks though. It is like two completely different shows!

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[Multifandom fanwork exchanges on Dreamwidth]

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Collapsed for length!

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Extremely niche secret, but I need to get this off my chest: I resent the continued existence of the three "Triple Crown" exchanges (10k-minimum multifandom fanwork gift exchanges: FFFX, Fic in a Box, and High Adrenaline).

I remember when FFFX was first being planned, its creator acknowledged at the time that a 10k min exchange was a very pie-in-the-sky idea because of the riskiness in getting people inexperienced writing such long works in exchange contexts to reliably turn in passable work and the difficulty sourcing pinch hitters. Because of those worries, I feel like the FFFX mod designed their 10k event very carefully and conservatively and I appreciate that.

...And then the mods of FIAB and HA came in and made TWO more 10k exchanges per year with much more punishing writing schedules, partly because the format of FFFX (including the super long writing period) didn't work for them.

Result: We now have three 10k exchanges when I think even ONE 10k exchange per year is tricky to pull off. They've managed to make the three 10k exchanges work for many years at this point but I don't think it's been without a cost. (1) The pinch hit burden has been incredibly heavy, esp. combined with recips who don't comment on their (long!) gifts. Pinch hits have been noticably more difficult to fill this year, because pinch hitter time, energy, and inspiration aren't some unlimited resource! (2) These exchanges (plus other quantity-maximizing events) have had the effect of drawing people who are mainly interested in writing output and challenging themselves to hit ambitious word count goals. That's a fine approach to fannish events, but I think it creates a disconnect because I don't think the mods of FIAB & HA even understand how much these events burn out pinch hitters because isn't it FUN to challenge yourself to write multiple 10k assignments in 2 weeks?

I'm really hoping that at least one of these events gets discontinued, preferably HA.* But because of what I said above, my prediction is that FFFX will likely be the first to go, because its mod seems to be the only one actually aware that there are challenges with running high-min exchanges that go beyond what a dedicated/industrious mod with a lot of free time can fix.

* The medium diversity of FIAB is at least a USP, but (1) its creation period needs to be at LEAST one month longer, and (2) it needs to get a better art point system stat.

B!S: I'm also glad the Triple Crown reward raffle is dead. I appreciate the supportive spirit in which it was created but it was also unsustainable and contributing to burnout in the way I've discussed above.

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NS, NF, etc.

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Official advertise your fandom-related event thread.

RULES FOR THIS:
1. NO images bigger than 600x600 in either direction (banners, et cetera).
2. ONE POST PER USER under this thread.
3. What IS allowed: roleplay advertisements, fandom comms, fandom events, things like that.
4. What is NOT allowed: anything for profit, any kind of fic/art commissions, seeking 1-on-1 RP, that kind of thing.

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General comments:

(If the thread contains spoilery/triggery content please warn/post as 2nd comment so it collapses!
Please collapse images, too!)

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Games thread!

[(Anonymous)]

*pauses to crack neck, inhales dramatically*

BUT WHAT ABOUT

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Um... fandom was basically made by and for pedantic nerds, and most of them are not the assholes you're complaining about. You're not going to get rid of them.

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Kind of agree. Don't really care for her one way or another but for some reason, she keeps popping up in recommended videos, even after I cleared my viewing history and turned it off.

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+10,000,000

It's ESPECIALLY frustrating when you make a generalization and point out that you're making a generalization that doesn't apply in all situations and yet someone STILL has to come in and go "Well, akshully 🤓👆" and point out that your generalization isn't always true.........

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You need to leave.

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I didn't care for her going bare-breasted to an awards show. No one needs to see her half-naked outside of a bedroom. If you have any talent, let it speak for itself.