[ SECRET POST #1951 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #1951 ⌋

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

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 05 pages, 102 secrets from Secret Submission Post #279.
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.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I'm not a BNF by any means, but the double standard about this whole thing, even in this thread, bugs the shit out of me. If a random person feels that somebody else is creepy and doesn't want to be their friend, omg they're totally allowed and poor them for having to deal with a creeper. If it's a BNF, HOW DARE THEY NOT GIVE EVERYBODY A CHANCE TO BE THEIR FRIEND. That elitist bitch!

Seriously guys?

[(Anonymous)]

This.

It seems like a lot of the time there's this sense that a BNF owes people friendship or else they're full of themselves, or at the very least have to be super neutral about every single divisive issue that is brought to their attention because otherwise grab the pitchforks!!

I think people tend to assume the worst of people who are popular (for whatever reason) pretty much universally. Sucks.

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

I don't think that a BNF has to make a friend out of everyone in the fandom. I do think that there are gracious ways to accept an accolade, and courteous ways to extract yourself from a conversation, neither of which include telling someone that they're being creepy five minutes after the conversation started, which is what is implied by the OP's post.

When I think of all the actors that I've stammered out words of thanks for some work they've done, or the authors whose works I've waited to have signed for the chance to say, "your work has made a difference to me", I'm glad that they've never said to me "treat me like a normal person" right off the bat with the implication that will let me talk with them a little longer.

If you're a BNF and someone says they feel honored to meet you, say "Thank you, I'm glad you like my work," and if you don't want to stay and chat, then walk on. And if that doesn't work and you do feel the need to extract yourself, do do as politely as possible. If courtesy doesn't work, then you might want to graduate to rudeness, but that's taking that chance the story ends up on the 'net and your reputation takes a dent, so I'd save it for the most persistent of pests, not the newbies.)

[marshwiggledyke.livejournal.com]

A+

[yoshi12370.livejournal.com]

This so much

[fleshisyummy.livejournal.com]

+1