[ SECRET POST #2087 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2087 ⌋

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

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02.
[Leverage]


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03.
[Camelot]


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04.
[Julian from The Trailer Park Boys, Trent Reznor]


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05.
[Three Men and a Baby/Little Lady]


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06.
[Harry Potter]


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07.
[Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman (Preston Lodge) / Glee (Sebastian Smythe)]


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08.
[glee, teen wolf]


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09.
[Breaking Bad]


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10.
[Teen Wolf]


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11.
[Teen Wolf]


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12.
[Misfits]


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13.
[The Immortals series]


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14.
[Adventure Time]


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15.
[tom hiddleston & colin morgan]


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16. [SPOILERS for Journey Into Mystery/Everything Burns]



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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 042 secrets from Secret Submission Post #298.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ], [ 1 2 - posted twice ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[becka]

The only thing I remember about this fic was that it was recced so much and so highly that it could only be a disappointment when I finally read it. I got into Snarry after book 6, and there were a few "classic" fics like that.

[fingalsanteater]

Yeah. The classics sometimes seem to have a different... tone? Style? There's sometimes something that seems off about them. I've noticed this with classic K/S fic too.

Speculation: They are the "founding" fics, when there was less variety and less to choose from quality-wise. They are good enough that they the cement themselves in our minds as classics, but as the fandom/pairing/niche picks up new fans and better writers (or, as the original fans hone their skills), later fics can seem better quality than the "classics."

[becka]

Totally agree about the "founding" fics thing. And in Snarry especially, every single good fic was a fucking EPIC, so reading 100,000 words of something just exacerbates that slightly "off" feeling.

[(Anonymous)]

imho I also think part of it is that most 'classic' fics were written when we had less canon. Harry Potter was pretty tame before the first major deaths in book 5 and the massive bleakness of books 6 and 7. A lot of the fic written before book 5 feels weird because it's too positive and misses small canon elements.

Same goes for classic K/S, I guess? I've seen a few fics that are pretty good but feel weirdly out of step with the general Trekverse because of weird details. Typical example would be fanon names: when Uhura is not N'yota, something doesn't feel right. For Harry Potter, any fic where Blaise Zabini is not a black guy strikes me as "pre-Half-Blood Prince".

[quidam]

I dunno, I think you should give it a chance anyway. Some details are off since I think the author wrote it before OotP came out, but the author came weirdly close in a lot of other respects. Snape's voice is almost comically spot-on, it's worth a look just for that.

[becka]

I mean, I read it five years ago, at the height of my Snarry love, and it just didn't do it for me. And it's not canon details that bother me. I think I had trouble with the pacing, which isn't unusual or unexpected in longfic. I guess I'm not sure what "giving it a chance" means when I'm talking about a fic I've already read. I don't begrudge other people their love for it at all!

[quidam]

Ohh I see, yeah, I don't usually take to longer fic either, this one is sort of out the ordinary for me. Not all that unlike Snarry in that it's not for everyone, haha.

[becka]

Yeah, on rereading I realize the wording of my first comment was ambiguous. Sorry about that!

There have been long fics I liked (and probably even some Snarry ones, although looking through my old bookmarks, none of them are all that long), but I'm picky about the flow of the story. And a lot of long stories originally posted as WiPs end up seeming repetitive for me once they're done, since writing a good serial involves more recapping than writing a good novel.