[ SECRET POST #241 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #241 ⌋

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

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Notes:

Have some more random bite links! Devilbats. ♥

Secrets Left to Post: 06 pages, 130 secrets from Secret Submission Post #035.
Secrets Not Posted: 0 broken links, [ 1 2 ] not!secrets, [ 1 2 ] not!fandom, [ 1 ] repeat.
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Comments

tl;dr 28 reply

[ikiningyo.livejournal.com]

I'm too lazy to read all the comments, so sorry if this has already been said :)

I used to be really into the Harry Potter fandom, but I didn't have any online fandom friends because I was a lurker. I found one awesomely funny Harry/Draco fic that I sent to a few friends of mine, and two of them became completely obsessive fangirls as well! It probably helped that the fic wasn't too long, and we're all university students, so we're used to reading longish pieces of text. Then I wrote a bit of fanfiction for a small-scale challenge, and friended someone there who wrote fic in the same genre, because we obviously loved eachother's work.

Then I got into the Death Note fandom, which is fairly small, and was very active at that time because the anime was still being aired. I friended every active community I could find and commented on almost every entry. I made a few friends through comment-conversations (when you talk to someone and they are awesome, just say 'hey, is it okay if I friend you?', common courtesy dictates they can't refuse!). I started writing a *lot* of fanfiction as well, and a few people friended me because they wanted to keep up with what I wrote without having to watch the communities all they time. I friended those that seemed interesting back. Likewise, I friended some people who wrote awesome fanfiction, and all of them friended me back (and I'm actually on really good terms with most of them ^-^ I was afraid they would just filter me out of their default reading list). There were also two friending memes (one in a regular community and one in the CAPSLOCK community XD), and I made a few friends there. In total, I think I have maybe 15 friends in that fandom now, and only two of them are kind of irritating and will probably be cut soonish.

tl;dr version: Just be active in your fandom! You need to interact with people to make them notice you.