[ SECRET POST #1866 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #1866 ⌋


Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS. #18 is a flashing/blinking gif.


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 08 pages, 190 secrets from Secret Submission Post #267.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 1 2 3 - broken links ], [ 1 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 1 - too big ], [ 0 - repeats ]
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments and concerns should go here.

Comments

[birdboy2000.livejournal.com]

I honestly agree with this secret, and I write a fair amount of fanfiction. Then again, a major reason I write is because I want people to enjoy it - I'm not just writing for myself.

Sure, the author has the right, but it seems like a dickish thing to do. I leave crappy fanfics I wrote in middle school up and every now and then someone favorites one of them, and I've seen too many genuinely amazing fics disappear from the web this way.

(Sharing I'm a lot more iffy on. I'm okay with credit and notification, and I love being recced in places, but outright posting to other sites while it's still up in its original location seems a bit skeevy to me.)

[amethyst-rei.livejournal.com]

On sharing >> Um, I think posting author's fic elsewhere unless the author gives express permission should just not be done. I do believe in private sharing, though. Like, if someone privately asks me for a fic that's been pulled I don't feel bad sending the fic at all.

On Writing for Oneself >> Hm. I know that authors write for themselves (duh) but I can SORT OF see where the OP was coming from. =/ Like, they write for themselves, sure, but they kind of write for us, too. I mean, that's pretty much the fanwork motto, right? "By fans, for fans". I personally like to think of fandoms as this big, sharing family. Needless to say, I don't support the pulling of popular fiction from a fandom, but then who does? I get upset and I get over it. The end.

[(Anonymous)]

but they kind of write for us, too.

They totally do. Otherwise they wouldn't bother posting it in public archives, they'd keep it in private journals.

[elspethdixon.livejournal.com]

the author has the right, but it seems like a dickish thing to do. I leave crappy fanfics I wrote in middle school up and every now and then someone favorites one of them, and I've seen too many genuinely amazing fics disappear from the web this way

I feel the same way - even the worst and most retroactively embarrassing crap I wrote as an 18-year-old is still up on ff.net, and it inexplicably still gets reviewed or favorited every once in a while. I figure, leaving it up isn't hurting me, and if it makes a couple people a year happy, it's worth it.

(The few situations in which I don't think fic-deletion is a colossally dickish/asshole move is when the fic itself is causing problems for or really upsetting other people in fandom the way seriously offensive fics like the infamous J2 Haitian Earthquake fic did, or when people a fan knows IRL have made the connection to their fandom identity and they need to get rid of the evidence to avoid IRL repercussions. Or if the copyright holder has sent out a bunch of C&D letters and they want to avoid even the smallest chance of getting into legal trouble. Or if the fic was posted on a personal webpage and you don't feel like paying for the domain name anymore, because in that case it is costing the author to keep the fic up - literally)

[tabaqui]

Right there with ya. If it was good enough for public consumption once, it still will be. Just archive it and leave it.

As a writer, i know my earliest stuff is *not* good, but why would i take it down? People still like it, so....

And once it's up, it's up - you can't really control it anymore, so if you didn't want people to save copies and pass them around later, you should just write in a diary or something....