[ SECRET POST #2109 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2109 ⌋

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

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Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ], [ 1 - posted twice ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
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Comments

[visp]

Unlikely. There are many hugely popular het pairings out there.

[(Anonymous)]

Depends on fandom.

[(Anonymous)]

They didn't say they wrote het. I can tell you from experience that in pretty much any fandom, gen gets the short end of the stick. (Also that on AO3, if you stick a popular pairing tag on a gen fic that is heavy on the characters in the pairing, you will get approx. 10 times the readers, and nobody will complain that it was mistagged.)

[(Anonymous)]

Also that on AO3, if you stick a popular pairing tag on a gen fic that is heavy on the characters in the pairing, you will get approx. 10 times the readers, and nobody will complain that it was mistagged.

Nobody might complain, but I personally don't leave kudos or comments on purposefully mistagged fic. (If there's a hint of shippiness about the pairing, I'll err on the side of caution and feedback the author, but purely gen stories with a pairing tag annoy the hell out of me.)

[(Anonymous)]

Oh, I admit it's a douchey thing to do, especially if you don't at least put a few bits of plausible-deniability subtext in, but 10x the kudos can be really persuasive. Also you can tag with the pairing but categorize as gen and the pairing fans will still see it, which is what I usually do when I succumb to temptation.

And it's pretty good evidence that the sole reason my genfic doesn't get read is because nobody goes looking for genfic, because if I go edit in a popular pairing tag even for just a couple days as a test, the increase in readership and kudos is dramatic.

[(Anonymous)]

Yup same here.

[(Anonymous)]

That's odd, I can see the temptation to get more readers, but doing that just drives away readers like me who actually would like to read gen.

[(Anonymous)]

Not in any of the fandoms I've ever belonged to - except the one where the creator of the series said, "Please don't slash my characters. I didn't write them that way, and I'd appreciate it if you didn't make them gay."

And that's the only fandom I can think of that didn't have a huge slash subset and a wee tiny het subset.

[visp]

And the Harry/Ginny vs Harry/Hermione wars never happened?

[(Anonymous)]

Because everyone knows the HP fandom, sure. Secret: no, they don't.

[(Anonymous)]

Er, ok. What about Buffy, and Doctor Who? Sure there's some slash there, but both those fandoms are majority het. And huge.

[(Anonymous)]

And that's the only fandom I can think of that didn't have a huge slash subset and a wee tiny het subset.

Avatar: The Last Airbender, Battlestar Galactica, Bleach, Bones, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Castle, Chronicles of Narnia, Doctor Who, Firefly, Fullmental Alchemist, Harry Potter, The Hunger Games, Jane Austen, The Mentalist, Once Upon a Time, Phantom of the Opera, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Stargate: SG-1, Twilight, The Vampire Diaries, The X-Files

[(Anonymous)]

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