[ 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 ].
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Comments

[drunken-clowns.livejournal.com]

I think it's got a lot to do with age. Many of the people in fandom now were really young when FF.net came out (I believe the older people in fandom at the time were more likely to be using fansites, but I'm not entirely sure?) So basically we were all a bunch of 12-year-olds writing script fics and bishounen turning into kittens, and then we kind of grew out of that phase at the same time that the kids a few years younger than us were discovering FF.net and starting their own kitten yaoi randomness! fic projects. Somewhere along the way, the migration to LJ happened, and now it's just something people do when they're done with the first stage of the fangirl life cycle. It's like being a tadpole.

A few people, though, grew out of their tadpole fangirl stage but kept posting at FF.net because they either didn't know about LJ or thought it was stupid to move, but they still kept writing things and went through that improvement process. Other people went back to FF.net for whatever reason, maybe the better archiving or something. Other people might have discovered fandom once they were already okay at writing, and FF.Net seemed to them like the obvious choice, if they didn't know about LJ or AO3 or anything. Plus, the tadpoles are getting more tech-savvy and finding the places that used to mostly have a more experienced demographic. So I think there's a shift going on now that people are starting to realize it doesn't matter so much? It could just be another growing up thing, realizing that the places you hung out in as a kid aren't exactly what they used to be when you were younger, and your own embarrassment at the skill level you had at that age doesn't make the place you posted your fics embarrassing in itself. I think the tumblr crowd has embraced FF.net too, and they're mostly at least marginally competent.

[asmodesgold.livejournal.com]

THIS. This was me. I first got into slash and fanfiction in general in 8th grade, wrote some pretty bad stuff, and moved on. Now my fics are (marginally) better and I post them all on LJ where I not only get help from others to improve my writing but also make actual friends. You know, communities.

[drunken-clowns.livejournal.com]

I have a ton of badfic from the seventh grade that I just really do not want to go looking for because I will cry. And it's all on the Pit.

Then again, I did make an actual friend there once in a smaller fandom, and that was really nice! We've grown apart since then, but she was really cool as a fandom friend.

Anyway, I think either community, it's really what you make of it? I know people who've haven't had any luck making LJ friends, and people who've grown really close over FF.net. LJ's probably a lot easier for that, though.