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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2012-10-23 06:28 pm

[ SECRET POST #2121 ]


⌈ 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.

(Anonymous) 2012-10-25 03:23 am (UTC)(link)
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?')