[ SECRET POST #7084 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #7084 ⌋

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


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02. [SPOILERS for Survivor Season 50]




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03. [WARNING for discussion of suicide]




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04. [WARNING for discussion of JKR/transphobia]




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05. [WARNING for discussion of JKR/transphobia, Neil Gaiman/sexual assault]




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06. [WARNING for discussion of Neil Gaiman/sexual assault]




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07. [WARNING for discussion of Michael Jackson/CSA]
























Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 00 pages, 00 secrets from Secret Submission Post #1011.
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

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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.)

Friday secret count

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~38

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01. https://i.postimg.cc/zXGLPBbj/c16x-FBj.png

Transcript

[(Anonymous)]

It's undeniably petty of me, but sometimes a WIP fic on AO3 goes off the rails so much after I've left kudos on it, that I not only lose interest in it, but come to dislike the story so much that I want my kudos back!

[(Anonymous)]

Been there. This is why I never comment or kudos until the fic is complete.

[(Anonymous)]

God yes. There was one fic where the first 3 chapters were so amazing I kudos and commented so much and recced it to friends. Then it went so off the rails and the quality went down so much it was like a whole new author took over and I wanted my kudos back and was retroactively embarrassed to have hypoed it so much.

[(Anonymous)]

+1

I finally gave up on WIPs entirely and I filter for complete works now.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm not pointing any fingers at you, but I have to ask, did the WIPs really go off the rails, or did you not pay attention to all the tags and warnings?


I've gotten similarly disappointed responses on a few of my fanfics, often because readers didn't notice or pay attention to a tag or warning about something I had planned to happen in future chapters. And then, when those events do happen, some readers are surprised or upset and ask if so-and-so's tag was always there. Or get upset and abandon the fic altogether.

The tags are almost always there. If I do add the tag after the fic has already started, I immediately alert readers either in the notes of the current chapter or at the top of the following chapter that there's a new tag or warning. Because I want to make sure the readers know I'm adding something they might not have bargained for when they first clicked on my fic.

[(Anonymous)]

There was at least one fic that I was so disappointed by the twist of it that wished I could've taken my kudos back. It was such a completely out of nowhere rug pull, on the order of Pam Ewing finding Bobby in the shower (if you don't get the reference, you can look it up, but if you don't want to, just know that fans of the show, rightly, raged about it).

[(Anonymous)]

I don't feel this way, unless the fic goes into a direction that's offensive or harmful. Just because it doesn't appeal to me anymore doesn't mean the author shouldn't have a "kudo" for the work they did.

And tbh, the one time over a decade ago I was deeply invested in a long fic that I read like a newspaper, only for the ending to be a rushed cop-out... it was very clear the author was dealing with IRL stress and slapped on a quick happy ending. So I just sympathize.

[(Anonymous)]

I feel that. There was a fantastic WIP in my fandom, my OTP, hit everything I loved, great writing, long, regularly updated, the character I absolutely hated wasn't tagged and hadn't appeared. All was good.

And then. It happened. They updated the tags to Hated Character being added as a third to the pairing. NOPENOPENOPENOPENOPENOPENOPENOPE.

[finlaena]

I'm gonna be brutally honest, it's secrets like this that make me wish I could shut off Kudos as easily as you can comments. I never really cared for the concept to begin with since AO3 started and in the last couple years I've started using it a little more, my opinion hasn't changed. lmao.

[pengilly]

That's why I (almost) never leave kudos on a fic until after it's finished. For ongoing multichapter works, I figure my comments are enough to keep the author going. Especially as a fan of a character who is frequently bashed or mischaracterized; I don't want my name permanently associated with any fic that treats her poorly.

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02. [SPOILERS for Survivor Season 50]
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Transcript - Survivor

[(Anonymous)]

I am glad that Aubry won this season of Survivor. I don't like her at all that much and I think she had a LOT of lucky breaks and didn't play a particularly good game, but Reddit and the online fandom in general is full of neckbeards who despise her, so I'm enjoying watching them meltdown and froth at the mouth because she won 2 million dollars.

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03. [WARNING for discussion of suicide]
https://i.postimg.cc/FzH9kZRv/mdd-Rzuj.jpg

Transcript

[(Anonymous)]

Transferable skills? No. Multiple chronic conditions? Yes. Probable success rate if placed into literally any isekai environment? Low. Still eagerly anticipating the arrival of Truck-kun? Fuck yes.

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04. [WARNING for discussion of JKR/transphobia]
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Transcript by OP

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I hate how JK Rowling's very existence seems to have poisoned the fantasy genre. I really do.

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05. [WARNING for discussion of JKR/transphobia, Neil Gaiman/sexual assault]
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Transcript by OP

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I'm confused. F!S can boycott Neil Gaiman for being a piece of human trash and can boycott his shit.

JK Rowling on the other hand... I get that. One is a despicable human being who is now a pariah even in his own industry. The other is actively funding a genocide against trans people. Obviously you can be big fans of her work. That is safe.

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06. [WARNING for discussion of Neil Gaiman/sexual assault]
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Transcript by OP

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I genuinely enjoyed the Good Omens finale.

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07. [WARNING for discussion of Michael Jackson/CSA]
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Transcript by OP

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I hate it when people say Michael Jackson did nothing of value during the last 20 years of his life and was washed up. He released Dangerous in 1992 and HIStory in 1995 which were great albums. He toured abroad in Asia and Europe during the 90s. Even Invincible (2001) wasn't a bad album. He was even planning a comeback tour called "This is It" in 2009. It sold out tickets. He looked pretty healthy during rehearsals for the concerts. MJ died only days before the tour truly started. If he didn't die, i think the comeback would have been a massive success.

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NS, NF, etc.

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Kudos on Ao3

[(Anonymous)]

How do you give them out?

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Games thread!

[(Anonymous)]

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https://worldle.teuteuf.fr/share

Um OK I thought the country in question was more diamond-shaped. On its side, like.

Secrets you don't want to make...

[(Anonymous)]

... but you wouldn't mind if someone else made them for you! As always, including the fandom and full character names is a big help, and while I'm definitely not the world's greatest expert at secret design, I'll try my best. Please note that long comment secrets can be difficult to make with a good end result. Most of the time, I'll give it a shot but might not be able to make secrets where the text is so lengthy that I can't fit it into the limited space.

I'm trying something new with the comment secret thread and extending the deadline to comment until Monday's post goes up. I'll monitor this thread until then, and hope the extra day will be more helpful for everyone.

Cheers,

a secret maker

P.S. Please don't worry if you've submitted a secret and it hasn't been posted yet. I usually post these threads before running out of the previous batch of secrets to get a head start on the next batch.

Re: Secrets you don't want to make...

[(Anonymous)]

I dislike the general fandom trend of, "if it's my kink, it's a kink, but if it's your kink which I do not have, it's a fetish and you're fetishizing, unlike me."

I'd respect a lot of complaints more if they acknowledged every kind of porn is fetishizing something and they're mad that their particular fetish isn't more popular.