[ SECRET POST #2399 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2399 ⌋

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Comments

[fscom]

13. http://i43.tinypic.com/34g57gk.jpg

[sootyowl]

It sounds like you've fallen out of love with fic. (I got nitpicky when I fell out of love with fic, but that could just be me.) That's okay. I did too for a few years, but rekindled my passion recently.

Maybe you just need to step back and explore different parts of fandom before you get back on the old fic reading horse.

[(Anonymous)]

It sounds like you've fallen out of love with fic.

No, it just sounds like their standards have changed. Everyone goes through a point where OOC becomes less tolerable, and most people still make it work. No problem with that.

[sootyowl]

To me it sounded like their standards were to high and that's what was causing them problems. Standards change, and because of that, they could very well have fallen out of love with fic.

[(Anonymous)]

When that happens to me I skip fandoms. In a new fandom I'm much more flexible about writing quality... for a while.

[elephantinegrace]

People's tastes change. I used to love Original Flavor type fics that were 100,000+ words (which severely limited the number of fic I could read, but it was okay because by the time I was done with one, there was another one that was just completed). Nowadays, if it's not a fluffy one-shot or whumpy, I skip it. Your taste in fic doesn't make you an elitist unless you actively bash other types of fic, in which case, you're also an asshole.

Just wait a few years. Maybe your tastes will change again and you'll start loving hurt/comfort fusion fics or something.

[(Anonymous)]

What does IDIC mean?

[diet_poison]

I was going to ask that...I think maybe it was a typo of IDEC (I don't even care)?

[elaminator]

That's what I thought.

[(Anonymous)]

Infinite Diversity Infinite Combinations?

[(Anonymous)]

I'm sure they didn't mean it but: Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations! :D (I was going to comment about this, because hilarious unintentional Star Trek reference...)

[(Anonymous)]

I feel the same way! Especially with shipping, as I start to discuss the rationales and see recurring tropes and so on and so forth. Eventually fics I had faved, followed and recced start to annoy the shit out of me.

[lyndis]

This. I'm a big shipper. But when I don't like a ship I don't like it for carefully dissected serious IRL-like reasons and I'm pretty sure that takes away the fun for me in fandom sometimes.

However, there's nothing wrong with needing characters to be in character to enjoy a fic. For me, if characters aren't pretty damn close to how I'm pretty sure they are, I'm out. I'm not going to read a fic where characters who are respectful and kind are raging racists and dickwads and lose their temper when, in canon, they've proved they have amazing control over their temper.

Makes sense to me, to run the other way and not enjoy fic where what characters do contradicts canon.

However, the thin line for me is with headcanon. Sometimes I'm okay with YMMV-headcanon stuff, but sometimes I've put SOO much thought into a headcanon and why I have it, that it's hard for me to enjoy anything where my headcanon was basically turned 180 degrees and then written about. ;P

[elaminator]

Sometimes I feel like this, sometimes I don't. It's weird. There are times where a character says or does something OOC and I immediately X out the window, and others where I say to myself, "This would never happen" but the writing or story is so delightful that I find myself reading anyway. Maybe it has to do with your mood? Or maybe after reading a certain number of fics in a fandom or excessively reading a certain trope you unconsciously set a higher standard for fic? IDK.

[(Anonymous)]

that sounds like a natural consequence of reading so much you start learning what is good writing and what isn't

+1

[(Anonymous)]

The same thing happened to me and I don't see what's so bad about it. It limits the amount of time I can spend reading fic, which is convenient!
And it makes it all the more rewarding when you find a really good writer, or a recs list from someone with the same taste as you.

[cloud_riven]

What this anon says. It sounds right.

Ain't nothing wrong with noping out of something you're not enjoying.

[(Anonymous)]

Yep, pretty much this.

I'm the same way nowadays. Bad writing and OOC stuff just makes me backbutton out of a fic so fast, you have no idea. I used to be able to tolerate some things, but not so much anymore.

[transcriptanon]

[Picture is the drawing of a man with light curled hair and pale skin wearing a black top hat, a dress jacket and a shirt with a very tall stiff neck. He is holding a monocle daintily in his hand.]

I used to have such a great time reading fanfics, but for a while now I start thinking "oh, that character would never do that/say that/act that way/do that for a living", etc. I used to hate elitist fanfic readers, that every single character had to be perfectly In Character for a fic to be "good". Somewhere along the way I became one and I hate it. It stole my fandom fun. Is this a secret? IDIC.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm currently going through one of these phases and I felt the same as you about it at first, but now I'm filling the fanfic-shaped void by reading more paper books and I feel content. If your fandom has peer-reviewed archive sites maybe you could check those out?

[ooh_mrdarcy]

that's too bad... maybe you're just suffering from a burn-out? It happens sometimes

I don't mind being a bit elitist when it comes to fics (I can't really read OOC fics unless they're parodies), otherwise I'd never finish reading because of the massive quantities in my fandoms

cheer up

[(Anonymous)]

Depending on how far you go, I wouldn't say that's necessarily elitist. If I read a Harry Potter fanfic where Harry's left handed when in canon he's right handed, no, I'm not going to stop reading and leave a passive aggressive review. That's elitist. But if he calls Hagrid annoying to his face or tells Molly Weasley he hates her food, unless it's intentionally OOC that bugs me because that's out of character dynamic. I don't think it's elitist to feel that way.

[rbhudson]

OT: I get bored and doodle the New Yorker logo all the time

[(Anonymous)]

So you're gaining a bit of discerning taste. That's not wrong. God knows I'm horrifically picky about fic. I love fanfiction, but my list of favorites fits on a very small piece of paper. Fact is, 99% of it is shit.

[ellazilla]

There's nothing wrong with this, as long as you don't take it to extremes.