[ SECRET POST #1726 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #1726 ⌋


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


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 10 pages, 240 secrets from Secret Submission Post #247.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 1 - too big ], [ 0 - hit/ship/spiration ], [ 0 - omgiknowthem ], [ 0 - take it to comments ], [ 1 - repeats ]
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments and concerns should go here.

Comments

[queenoftea.livejournal.com]

I'm going to jump on a grenade here and say that I agree with you. Fanfiction is a LOT of fun. But it will never produce anything that makes me sit back and think about the choices I've made in my own life the way that, say, Vonnegut's classics do. Even boring ass high school assigned novels pull that little cord in my brain that says "This book is saying something about /me/" - I hated "Unbearable Lightness of Being", but the theme it covered was something I could relate to, the choice to accept responsibility at the loss of your own happiness or to shrug it off and live a happy selfish life. Shakespeare wrote for the common people, yes, BUT his stories were about internal conflict in powerful men - they fought demons that they did occasionally lose to, and their issues were understandable even if they weren't sympathetic.

I have never read a fanfic that makes me want to be a better person. I have read very few fanfics that actually challenge the characters. I think in general authors who write it are doing it for shits and giggles, so there's no drive there to actually tell a complete story beginning to end - you're just touching on a scene to create an emotional response (arousal, sadness, squee, shock etc.) because that's what's sought after. AND THAT IS ABSOLUTELY OKAY! Everything has a place! But I see fanfic as say, a Thomas Kinkade, versus a Dali - both are beautiful, both inspire a certain emotion, but one has layers of intention to it that the other one doesn't need to have.