[ SECRET POST #1930 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #1930 ⌋

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

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 05 pages, 110 secrets from Secret Submission Post #276.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 1 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 1 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ], [ 1 - posted twice ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I mostly read on ff.net because most of my ships are rare pairs and usually super hard to find. ff.net is nice and simple just to pick the characters, and one can't be very picky with quality rare pair fics because there's usually <5 to begin with, so you sometimes cry tears of joy over the crappiest fic just because FINALLY A FIC OF YOUR OTP~
LJ just sucks for rare pairs, to be honest. there usually aren't any active comms for them, and the general fandom fic comms MAY have your pairing, but you have to cross your fingers and hope there's a tag for them or end up going through a bunch of fics looking for your ship and hope that by chance there's a fic there. Though AO3 seems to be my newest favorite option.
but anyway, tl;dr: ff.net is a lot better for rare pairs, even with the crappy quality of most fic.

[(Anonymous)]

This. Also, in the same vein, crossovers. These are my crack, and if I get a random 'Hmm, I wonder if anyone has written fandom x/fandom y fic?' notion, it's much easier to use ff.net's dropdown boxes than slog through issue after issue of crossover-news (particularly considering that you can't sort that by more than one fandom at a time).

If I've got a hankering to read a popular pairing - Dean/Castiel, say - I'll almost never go to ff.net; there are bound to be plenty of new fics on the main comm or recs on rec-hymenated, not to mention checking for new fics by authors I already know are awesome.

But if I'm in a Flynn/Brenda mood, I know that missedplease doesn't update remotely as often, so I just go to ff.net and deal with wading through the shite. (And it does get easier after a while; your eyes kind of train themselves to skip over red flags in the summaries/titles.)

AO3 could be the best of both worlds, but their search feature needs some work - I love how ff.net lets you do a keyword search and then refine *those* results by fandom, characters, etc - and it's just smaller. If you never read anywhere but there, you miss some great stuff.

As far as posting goes, I basically only post on an LJ sockpuppet these days, because I hate the thought of posting new fic on ff.net and someone reading it, then going to look at my other works and dislocating their eyeballs. (Crap. Utter crap. OOC schmoop, butchering of canon, fics that started out with what I thought were brilliantly clever ideas and which I had no idea what to do with thereafter, and yes, songfics in which lyrics outnumber actual text. But I hate to delete them because I know how much *I* hate it when a fic I bookmarked disappears, and I'm still getting reviews on even the most awful ones now and again.)

I could just make a new ff.net account, I suppose, but then six months down the line I'd probably hate everything I posted and have to start all over again.

[(Anonymous)]

This also applies to small fandoms. When your fandom's entire section on ff.net is a couple hundred fics, good luck finding a tenth of that on LJ or AO3. FF.net is really the only place for fandoms like that.