[ SECRET POST #2351 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2350 ⌋

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

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 05 pages, 113 secrets from Secret Submission Post #336.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Probably not.

I've been writing fanfiction for 15 years and it's my opinion that (especially in certain fandoms) the majority of readers don't want to work. They don't appreciate good plotting, subtle characterization, stylistic grace, or even IC portrayals: they'd rather have OOC AU high school smut.

So the thing is, you need to decide if you want to continue to cook great meals when all most consumers want is junk food.

[(Anonymous)]

This.

Some people will appreciate good writing, the rest don't care as long as the sex scenes are readable and hot.

[(Anonymous)]

in my current experience my plotty angsty fics are WAY more popular than my smut, weirdly enough, so I guess it depends on the fandom?

[(Anonymous)]

> I guess it depends on the fandom?

I think it does, since I've seen a few fandoms where your kind of thing is warmly received.

Sadly, in my main fandom, the more superficial the fic, the shriller the squee.

[(Anonymous)]

This depends entirely on the fandom and it's demographics.

[(Anonymous)]

which the phrase "especially in certain fandoms" was intended to acknowledge.

[(Anonymous)]

No, actually.

That phrase implies that it happens in ALL fandoms, but is worse in some.

I'm saying that a lot of fandoms don't have that problem at all.

[(Anonymous)]

Pretty much all of this.

[(Anonymous)]

You have a point but I don't think always for the reasons you are saying. For me fanfic is an escape, a comfort thing. I have some great books I can read if I want to work. I really don't look for literary genius in fanfic. I do like well written stuff, and will back button if it's terrible, but I won't read something just because it's well written if it's about a ship I have no interest in, or don't like. Or if it's got a bleak and sad ending. I can re read 1984, one of my favourites, if I want to wallow in a bleak and incredibly well written story.

I'm not interested in high school AUs though, but I do get that they are popular maybe with younger fans who are going through teenage emotions and want to relate IDK.