[ 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.

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[(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)]

Not OP but some authors add tags as they go along. I've had it happen several times that an absolute nope-out-thing for me was not actually tagged until the day it appeared in a new chapter of the fic several weeks/months/chapters in.
Also, especially in long running WIPs, some authors suddenly get weirdly invested in something - either a new plot direction that obviously wasn't planned or get into a new ideology and start soapboxing halfway in and that's also rarely tagged from the start if at all. Also, some people just suck at tagging.

[(Anonymous)]

ayrt

Fair enough.

[(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.

[pengilly]

I misread the bit at the end as OPEN OPEN OPEN OPEN, and was scratching my head for a few seconds. My first thought was that you were so angry about your OTP "opening" their relationship that you couldn't do anything but spam what word. Then my brain started working again. Lol.

[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.