[ SECRET POST #2272 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2272 ⌋

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

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 06 pages, 140 secrets from Secret Submission Post #325.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 1 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ], [ 1 - posted twice ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[fscom]

11. http://i.imgur.com/aE0MtDs.png

[visp]

People can like a story and hate the author - it's not that uncommon.

[lyndis]

Yeah. It's a huge compliment. If someone I didn't care for wrote a 'fic about my OTP(s), if it was pretty good, I'd read it and review it, nbd.

[(Anonymous)]

This happens quite a lot with published authors....

[visp]

Yes indeedy.

[(Anonymous)]

Ahaha I know. I just mostly feel weird about it myself. It's less in the "haha you fool! You hate me and like my work" but more... weird because it baffles me that there is something we agree on at all.

[(Anonymous)]

This is why I read fanfic but stay the fuck out of fandom. Call me an misanthrope but 80% my reading experience is not made better by knowing exactly the kind of person the author/the fandom around them is...

[skeletal_history]

The art design of this secret made me think it was about Deadwood, and now I'm disappointed. :~(

[(Anonymous)]

Aww sorry to disappoint! I'm not sure I even know what that is. D:

[(Anonymous)]

*squints* ... too pale, didn't read

[(Anonymous)]

op;

Sorry... D: When I was making it, and the image by itself it is perfectly fine, but next to all the colorful ones it is a bit hard of an adjustment.

[(Anonymous)]

That's why I try not to get too involved in the non-fic/art sections of fandom.

People become so obsessed with authors, but I just can't because I'm afraid I'll end up hating them and it might influence my enjoyment of their fic. And to me, fic is one of the absolute best things about fandom.

It might sound horrible of me, but I don't CARE about the RL going-ons of the authors. I really don't. The most interaction I'll have with them is through reviews. Otherwise, I just don't give a damn about getting to know them.

I follow fan journals only. Personal journals, or authors whose journals are like 75% RL business, are ignored.

[hiyami]

Are you the one who posted the secret about intentionally adding typos in your secrets to avoid being recognized?...

[(Anonymous)]

lol no? Do people even recognize people by the way they type??

[hiyami]

Sometimes yes.
It happened to me a couple of years ago in fandom (but English isn't my first language, so that narrowed down the identification, I guess).

[silverau]

I've recognized people by the way they type before, but only people I've known for years.

[blitzwing]

Seems like so much bunk to me. There are a few common typing styles most people fall under. Unless you pick some unique thing deliberately to make yourself stick out, it seems unlikely to me that anyone could be identified solely by their grammar and typing tendancies.

[(Anonymous)]

Some people unintentionally have unique quirks in their writing. I knew a Final Fantasy name who consistently typed "Nomura" as "Normura", which made her stand out as she referenced him a lot in arguments. Didn't help her that she was ESL; while some ESL folk are so fluent I'd never distinguish them without having been told, when an ESL person isn't quite there it tends to be different in ways that stick out just because I've never seen a native speaker type like that.

And most people have some kind of writing quirk, even if most aren't completely unique. I tend to overuse certain words, punctuation and formatting unless I'm really watching myself. While I doubt I'm identifiable to most people, I have had friends pick me out in anon settings. It's an overall "feel" to the writing where if the fandom setting is small enough you can peg people because you've seen their writing so many times.

[(Anonymous)]

Hm, that's kind of a shippable situation.

[(Anonymous)]

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, it's a really strange feeling when you share the same taste in something with someone you have many fundamental differences with. It makes you wonder if there is something wrong with you because of it (because if they like it, there must be something wrong with it).