[ SECRET POST #2109 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2109 ⌋

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

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 023 secrets from Secret Submission Post #301.
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

[(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.