[ SECRET POST #2420 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2420 ⌋

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

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 064 secrets from Secret Submission Post #346.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 1 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[fscom]

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[(Anonymous)]

I wrote a request for someone recently, sent them a friendly "hi, I posted your gift, here's a link!" and then after two days and them making hundreds of posts on their tumblr without replying to me, yeah, I took their name off that shit.

Don't feel bad anon, IMO. If you make a gift for someone and they don't even acknowledge it, they don't deserve it.

[angrymermaids]

I'm still pissed about one of my giftees never acknowledging the gift I wrote for them. It must have been over a year and a half ago that this happened, and I'm irritated because it wasn't just some cookie-cutter PWP that could have come from anywhere, it was a very specific crack pairing that I agonized over and put a lot of work into making the background and dynamics seem realistic. UGH.

Even when I get a gift and I dislike how it's written, I still thank the person and say at least one thing I liked. It's just common courtesy, man.

[tabaqui]

Dude, no worries. I wrote a gift fic for someone and they never once even looked at it or, if they did, they never said anything to me. Lame as hell. So i don't blame you a bit.

[vethica]

I can totally sympathize, OP. Not quite the same boat, but I've been drawing people stuff for a "reblog and I'll draw you a character" tumblr post I made, and I can't stand it when they don't even like the post. You don't have to reblog it or even respond to the message notifying you. Just a like so I know you acknowledged my effort, that's all I ask. =_=

[(Anonymous)]

Like a lot of people have already said, don't worry about it. I've even done this for fics that were written for "friends" who never responded. Honestly all it takes is to say "thanks" as acknowledgement and I'll be content.

Now I'm worried though that I've inadvertently been that douchebag to other people.

[(Anonymous)]

Go for it. This year's Yuletide was the first time that happened to me. I did my best to fulfill a ridiculously detailed prompt and recipient never acknowledged it at ALL, not even a kudos. They did, however, gush over a Yuletide Madness gift they received.

Thanks for nothing, asshole.

[(Anonymous)]

However someone feels about the fill, if the creator was kind enough to fill their request they should at least have the courtesy to say thank you.

[(Anonymous)]

A year? I'd give it a week. Tops.

[transcriptanon]

[Picture is a half-duplicated image of a wrapped gift box. The wrapping paper is a metallic silver color, and the wrapping ribbon is a simple purple done in a bow.]

I often write eleventh-hour pinch hits or treats for exchanges. Most aren't masterpieces, but they're generally well-received.

However, if a year goes by and the recipient never makes any comment or acknowledgement, I quietly take their name off the story. Yes, I'm a douche. A gift is a gift, maybe they died, yadda-yadda. That's why this is a secret.

[(Anonymous)]

As someone who's been the recipient of a gift fic, you guys are absolute assholes for getting pissed about it. An online friend of mine wrote a fic for me because my mom died. I was so apathetic about everything, reading fic was the last thing I wanted to do right then so I didn't read it until I was ready.

Sometimes, somebody doesn't respond because they have things going on in their lives that are more important than fandom (and your fic).

[pts]

I haaaaaaate when people don't reply to gifts written for them. You gave them a YEAR. That's more than they needed. Fuck 'em if they can't at least say "thank you for writing this."

[(Anonymous)]

I've had this happen to me several times, though it wasn't gifts. I had a reviewer who would leave reviews and ask for a story. I didn't mind it since it was my OTP. But as time went on and the requests still came, the comments stopped and the thank yous completely stopped as well.

I got really frustrated because I would try my hardest to write and get over writers block. But when someone requests a story and I fulfill it, at least an acknowledgement would be nice.

And nearly a year without hearing from this reviewer, they pop up once more and with a request. This is depressing :(

[ninety6tears]

That's completely fine in my book. It feels like an equivalent of "This is getting cold, so I'm just gonna eat it myself."

[(Anonymous)]

Glad to see I'm not the only one who does this.

And it's not like you delete the fic. It's still there for everyone to enjoy, including the rude ungrateful rag you wrote it for.

[(Anonymous)]

I pretty much almost lost a friend completely because they never acknowledged a gift story I wrote for them. I was so hurt and angry. They never even SAW it. But we're not so close anymore, even with that cleared up. :(

I don't write gifts for people anymore. It's too...ugh.

[(Anonymous)]

Giving them a year to at least acknowledge the gift is more than generous. I don't see anything wrong with removing their name if they're going to be an ungrateful cunt.

[(Anonymous)]

I did a gift exchange recently and haven't received my half :( I feel pretty let down about it, since I put loads of hours into mine (secret santa style so dunno who my gifter was but I can guess going by the list of participants who haven't...well, participated)

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

I try to at least respond when someone takes up one of my prompts, even if the fic they are writing is not to my tastes (no, Femme!Bagginshield (with both female) does nothing for me, but I still gave the go-ahead for it on one of my prompts).
Even when I don't expect it, I try to be thankful that they have taken what I've said and written fic because of it.

I just hope I haven't left someone waiting and waiting on thanks I failed to give.

[(Anonymous)]

I've never participated in gift exchanges enough to have this problem, but I did have someone email me about my fic a few months ago to tell me how much they liked it, and asked me to write something for them. I did get about 2k worth of a WIP done and sent it to them to see if it was what they wanted, but I haven't heard back from them since. Feeling like I wasted my time on a fic I hadn't particularly wanted to write anyway.

[sky_queen3]

I hope I've never done this to anyone and if I have I'm so sorry.

Don't feel bad, if they know about it and haven't said anything then there's no real problem with taking their name off of it.

[(Anonymous)]

Seems perfectly fair to me, OP. People who can't even be bothered to cough up a simple thank you don't deserve to get any presents.

[(Anonymous)]

I once drew some fanart for someone in my fandom, she was really gushing in her email to me, wanted to post it for everyone to see yada yada. She posted lots of other gifts from people, but not mine. I was a little hurt but tried to suck it up, told myself maybe she'd just forgot.

A little while later she posted art she'd commissioned from another (yes, better) artist. It was the same picture as mine, just redrawn by her friend. Fuck you, you're one of the reasons I gave up drawing, yeah its still humiliating even if no-one else knew I'd drawn that for you, it was a shitty thing to do.

[(Anonymous)]

My first thought was that it doesn't sound unreasonable to disassociate the recipient from the fic after so long without *any* response. My second thought was that I'm not in a position to talk.

I once had a giftfic exchange a while - years - back, with an online acquaintance (she reviewed one of my fics, we were enthusiastic fans...you likely know the deal). However, we fell out of touch, I at least fell out of the relevant fandom, and neither of the fics were finished. I still feel guilty for not drawing a line under things properly when I knew I wasn't in a position to continue. We both acknowledged each other's work, it was just never finished.

Yet reading these comments just make me wonder whether I'm underestimating this by concluding that RL happened for us both.

[(Anonymous)]

I feel awful, because someone pinchhitted something for me well passed the deadline, but the person who happened to have originally gotten me was not only a friend irl, but the person I got to write for. I was really proud of what I wrote and she never finished hers, which delayed my story getting posted (she never actually ever read it either), so by the time the event closed I was just really bitter and sad over it and couldn't bring myself to read it.

It's been a year-ish now and I still haven't read it ):