[ SECRET POST #1967 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #1967 ⌋

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

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 051 secrets from Secret Submission Post #281.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 1 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[fscom.livejournal.com]

08. http://i45.tinypic.com/mt6qs9.png

[pengychan.livejournal.com]

I know what you mean, OP. It happens waaaay too often that people take "I really don't like that fic Random Author wrote at all " as "Random Author sucks and should die a horrible death".

[(Anonymous)]

wait, you mean we have to start taking things at face value?

[(Anonymous)]

Okay? Who gives a fuck if you like someone's fic, and how is this a secret? (That wasn't already covered in a prior secret, that is.)

[(Anonymous)]

I still don't get why my prostate anatomy pic got the into the porn bar and this didn't

[(Anonymous)]

nudity =/= porn

[(Anonymous)]

Illustrations from an anatomy textbook =/= porn, either.

[(Anonymous)]

Er I hope you don't consider science text books anatomy pictures porn because that's a bit weird..

[shallnotfalter.livejournal.com]

I think it's weird to consider Allori "porn".... I mean... Really?

[anonlulz.livejournal.com]

You mean, the one with the finger up the guy's rectum?

[ninety6tears.livejournal.com]

You were probably told this the first time around, but if you don't like, don't read, move on. And um, take it to the comments?

[(Anonymous)]

Doesn't a person generally have to read something, in order to discover they don't like it?
"Don't like, don't read" makes absolutely no sense.

[ninety6tears.livejournal.com]

But the implication of continuing to whine about it after this terrible experience of reading enough to know you don't like it, which shouldn't be all that much really, is that somebody is pushing you to like something you don't like when no one can make you read it or like it. All you have to do is not read it and let other people enjoy something they enjoy.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm in a fandom where there is a VERY popular AU fic series, and I pretty much loathe it with all of my being. The author is a circle jerking dickwad that everyone says is "so nice". And because it's all so popular, naturally almost every fan I know and am friends with is posting about it/swooning over it.

So while I'm not the OP, I can totally understand being so unhappy and aggravated by it, you need some secrets to vent.

[(Anonymous)]

NAYRT

Yeah, I understand OP's feeling too, because I'm in the same situation. They even made a specific topic for fans of said fic author on the board I'm on, so it's a topic that comes up every so often when you speak among fans, even IRL.
Regular convo and then "Oh did you see the latest chapter she wrote?! It's so awesome". Ensues 10 mn of talk about it, previous chapters, etc, where I just wait in silence until it's over because I don't like the author as a person and I don't read that much fic anyway. I won't read her because half of what she writes on the board grates on my nerves anyway. I have no reason to think her fics would be different, we don't like the same things about this fandom.

But I can't even say as much because she's so popular that it would probably get me to hear a lot of "OHNOES HOW COMES SHE'S SO GREAT!". She's not worth me getting dislike because I don't like her.

[thesaneminority.livejournal.com]

That... really doesn't have anything to do with "don't like, don't read". DLDR basically means that if you don't like hurt/comfort or a specific pairing or whatever, you shouldn't read a fic that's clearly labelled as such and then whine in the comments that you didn't like it when you had full warning. The OP might be guilty of harping on this fic a little too much, but DLDR doesn't really apply when you can't very well un-read the fic you didn't like.

[ninety6tears.livejournal.com]

I'm aware that it's usually used in that context but it doesn't make zero sense in this one. The fact that no one is forcing this person to be subjected to something they didn't like the first time around makes it overdoing it for them to still be complaining about it.
I am ever so sorry, everyone, for misusing a sacred mantra. JFC.

[(Anonymous)]

...Okay.

I don't like a lot of fics (but like way more than I don't). Some of them are popular. In your words, I guess you can say I "don't give a fuck" about them. Except, you've made two secrets about it already. I guarantee the author cares less than you do.

[anonlulz.livejournal.com]

Story != Author

That said, what is the point of this secret?

[velvet-mace.livejournal.com]

Okay then. Stop letting her fics run your fandom life. I mean, seriously, is she worth two secrets on the same damn subject? You are never going to convince anyone who likes her fics not to like them. You just come off as a grudgy mcgrudge person.

[joshua-glass.livejournal.com]

See, I kind of read this as, OP made a secret (that I honestly don't remember at the moment) that s/he disliked a popular fic in fandom. Instead of letting it go, it created a great deal of, "BUT -AUTHOR- IS SO AMAZING/GOOD/KIND/VIRGIN MARY WHHYYYYY???"

And since OP said nothing about the author themself, just that they disliked their writing, they're a bit miffed that people seem to equate "I don't like Bob/ina's fic." with "I hate Bob/ina."

But to be honest, I don't think I would have had the energy to make a second secret, because really, some people just can't understand that you don't like someone's writing, even if they're hailed as the be all and end all of a particular fandom.