[ SECRET POST #2121 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2121 ⌋

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

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02.
[Darths and Droids]


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03.
[Captain America & Iron Man]


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04.
[The Walking Dead]


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05.
[Divergent]


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06.
[SPN RPF]


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07.
[Sanctuary]


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08.
[Person of Interest]


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09.
[Last Exile]


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10.
[Hugo Weaving / Sam Neill]


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11.
[Type-Moon]


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12.
[Spec Ops: The Line]


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13.
[Quantum Leap]


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14.
[Tom Hiddleston]


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15.
[Labyrinth]


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16.
[Trent & Mariqueen Reznor, How to Destroy Angels]


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 051 secrets from Secret Submission Post #303.
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.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[fscom]

01. http://i.imgur.com/qqfbo.jpg

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, me too. I'm into quite a few things that don't have an active fandom, and I don't mind squeeing into a vacuum, but I keep my fic on my hard drive. I realise this makes me part of the problem, but- yeah.

[insanenoodlyguy]

Were you really writing it just for you then?

[(Anonymous)]

How's that reading comprehension? OP stopped publishing, they didn't say they stopped writing. It sounds like 'writing it just for you' is exactly what they were doing. Feeling self-conscious about the absence of feedback isn't the same as being a filthy kudos whore.

[(Anonymous)]

WELL MEME, THESE WERE SATISFYING PERIOD SHITS! :D

[elysian-stars.livejournal.com]

That's what I do most of the time, too. Because most of my fandoms are tiny, based around semi-obscure RPGs like Valkyrie Profile, Mana Khemia and The Last Story. Oh well.

OMG, a Valkyrie Profile fan!

[feotakahari]

If you can find anywhere at all to post it, I'll read it, at least.

[(Anonymous)]

Just chiming in to say fuck yeah Valkyrie Profile.

[arareusagi.livejournal.com]

Valkyrie Profile <3

It's so hard to find fans!

[(Anonymous)]

Same. The very few fics I've published have been for either an obscure fandom or a totally cracked out crossover because that's the only type of fanfic I seem to be interested in long enough to actually write, and the maximum number of comments I've gotten is 3. One was even a crossover with the current popular femslash fandom in a particular community, so I really wanted to use it as a way to meet new people because I had no friends in that fandom, but it was mostly, "OMG great job!" and that was it. So yeah, it hasn't discouraged me from posting, because I do it so seldom that I don't care about the comments, but I definitely get the frustration. :/

[tasogare_n_hime]

As long as you have fun writing OP. It is really lonely in Tiny/almost dead fandoms, but I keep posting stuff even if I'm the only one left, and no one responds at all. I refuse to let it die, and hope it will recover.

[(Anonymous)]

OP, why are you embarassed? I do this all the time; well, not in a dead fandom, per se. It's actually really active right now, but I'm currently writing in my native language where the series is practically unheard of. As of now I haven't had even one review/kudos to my fic, and honestly I've expected that since first publishing.

Just think about it as your personal dumping-place. Beside, who knows, maybe there'll be someone who leave a feedback sometimes in the future.

[terabient]

I'm too scared to post my obscure canon fic. Like I just imagine someone getting really excited that there's fic out there for a non-existent fandom, but then my fic disappoints them because it's not what they're looking for.

Realistically no1curr but it just seems easier to hide it for eternity rather than post it. <_<

[silverr]

I was grumbly about lack of reader feedback for years, until I finally sorted it out for myself - something I'll drop it here in case it helps OP or anyone else.

To me there are two possible parts/modes/aspects to creating fanwork. A person might have either or both of these modes present. ~ First is the "introverted" joy in creation, in the actual crafting. The "writing (or drawing) for yourself" thing. A solo endeavor, satisfying in and of itself. ~ If you enjoy writing drawerfic, that's okay. Really. You don't have to "get up on stage" (i.e., publish) if you don't want to. (Or you can try publishing anonymously, if the content of what you're creating is suited to that.)

The other is, yes, an extroverted, public act. For writing, I think of it as The Storyteller. Art as performance. No audience reaction is painful. (People who have only this aspect active are, imo, only in it for the basking. They don't care if their stuff is crap or not, see any criticism as a flame, and pander as needed.)

I used to get annoyed with myself because I wanted - I enjoyed - both, and because people generally assume that anyone who has that Storyteller aspect is in it only for the attention, insinuating that they're somehow less of an artist. I came to reject this devaluation as bullshit. ~ If you've created something that you had fun making - or something you think could be better - then you DO want to show it to others and hear what they think. ~ And there is nothing wrong with that, either.

tl:dr: Do what's fun for you, and to hell what anyone else thinks.

[ninety6tears]

*sigh* Yeahh, with tiny fandoms you gotta be prepared to only get some kind of response to it when somebody out there gets the random whim to look for it, so you're looking at months or more of your fic sitting there before you have reason to believe anyone's looking at it. You just have to brush off that feeling that people are judging you or something for posting work that isn't getting much of a response.

[queen_saru]

Don't feel like that, OP~! There's nothing wrong with putting something on the web, even if you get no feedback.

There's the chance that a) people are reading it but are shy because it's a mostly dead fandom, and/or they're just not prolific reviewers anyway, or b) people are reading it but don't review because they don't want to be the one-word type reviewers, but don't have anything more to say than that they liked it.

A lot of the stuff I post gets no reviews whatsoever, because I don't tend to write the 'in' pairings, so even if I'm writing porn (which I enjoy), it just sits there unreviewed and possibly unread, but as long as you enjoyed writing it, why not share it on the off chance someone else DOES come across it?

[(Anonymous)]

I just re-imagine my fanfic as original works.

[la_petite_singe]

Man, publish it if you want! Doesn't have to be for anyone else. Besides, I bet there's another person out there who thinks there's nothing and will be delighted to find your stuff.

[luxken27]

This is just how small/obscure/dead fandoms roll, I'm afraid. You have to be in it for yourself and not looking for reactions/feedback - there's a *reason* why these fandoms are small/obscure/dead, after all. If you don't feel like being the one to rally up the other five fans for your series, there's absolutely nothing wrong with that.

As long as you don't stop writing the story you enjoy so much, then no harm, no foul. Nobody ever said you must foist onto the world every single fic you write :)

[brightblueink]

I can understand, particularly since I'm shy about publishing my own work, but I'd wish you'd publish it somewhere. :( My main fandoms are mostly small or dead, and I know it'd make me happy to see new fanfic appear for it, even if I didn't see it right away.

[(Anonymous)]

The one show/fandom I have a voice for and any confidence at all with my writing is like me and 2 others lol. I post my fics so maybe they'll get seen and enjoyed and if I get feedback that's cool.
Don't be embarrassed though, post those fics for that one other person in the world who's still enjoying the show.

[velvet_mace]

But, but, but... why not just leave them in an archive where someone might find them, even if it is months from now? It's not like they are cluttering things up or anything.

[(Anonymous)]

Late, but this is how I feel about the pics I've drawn for an obscure old cartoon. It doesn't help my shame that it's a kids' show. Plus, the handful of fans in the deviantArt group are... well, that's what I get for looking for fandom on dA.

[(Anonymous)]

Anon, let me tell you a story about a fairly small fandom that I've drifted in and out of a few times. It was never big but used to be a regularly active small fandom; I kept giving up and leaving because it was never worth being there. There weren't many fics and they were almost all awful, and nothing ever rated better than a 'meh' or 'could have been alright if it weren't for [terrible characterisation, terrible grammar, terrible sex, etc].' When I had another look in 2010 after being away for a few years, it was all but dead - there was only one person posting fic on the LJ community, and the comments were drying up. I read her fics with low expectations, as usual.

And she was incredible.

I spammed comments on everything and we got talking and I got inspired to go write some fic for the fandom myself. For a few more months it was pretty much just the two of us, but then a third person showed up. We started a comm on Dreamwidth and the whole thing is much like having a kink meme full of eyewatering porn prompts and shipping lulz except not anon and mostly between only three people. We have met a few others on AO3, though, and it's somehow become the only part of AO3 that I know of in which commenting on new fics is more common than kudosing. One of my fics had, at one point, five kudoses and nine comment threads (40 comments total). Someone posted a shortfic in French a few weeks ago and two of us read it and commented on it.

I never, ever dreamed that this fandom could even be fun, but it's been by far the best thing in my fannish life for nearly two years now. Anon, it can happen. Someone out there is as obsessed as you are and they will very glad to find you. Don't close the door on them just because they haven't stopped by yet.

(an aside; I dread the annual descent of the yuletiders to my fandom, because I'm like 'Where the fuck have you been all year?')

[(Anonymous)]

I'm into some dead fandoms myself. You can't imagine the joy when I find a new fic of them. But then, I see that the date is old and feel embarrased to leave feedback in case the author doesn't like their own fics anymore or something, so I end up saying nothing.

So, unless it's really distressing for you to get no feedback at all, I'd still vote for publishing your fics. Because maybe you're making extremely happy a lurker or too. You never know.