[ SECRET POST #2462 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2462 ⌋

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

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 057 secrets from Secret Submission Post #352.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 2 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Ah the evolution of language.

Once upon a time, some fan in some fandom decides to write a fic in exactly one hundred words and call it a drabble. They share this new concept (and the fics written from it) in their fandom, maybe multiple fandoms. It catches on and other fans bring to it to other fandoms. It spreads like wildfire through the fandoms.

Then fans start posting these tiny fics to fanfic archives, maybe ff.net or ao3. A few authors use the word drabble in their author's note but don't explain what it is. Where they've previously posted in their fandoms, everyone knows what a drabble is, so they've never had to explain what it is and so forgets to do so now.

And lots of posters on these archives do the same thing.

And lots more reader/writers read this word in this and many other ANs and sees the fic is a short one. They don't stop to count the words in the fics to find out the drabble is exactly one hundred words long. They just see the word drabble and see a short fic and make the connection that "drabble" must mean a short fic.

So these hundreds or thousands of posters write short fics and call them drabbles and post them to ff.net or ao3, not realizing they aren't using the term correctly, but spreading the term with its now evolved meaning and both the word and its evolved meaning (and its actual meaning) continue to spread.

And now other posters come along and insist that a drabble is a fic of exactly 100 words. And some people respond, "Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't know." and then turn around and also become champions of a drabble is only a hundred words. And other people go, "I didn't know" and keep using drabble the way they were before (wrongly, according to the champions of the drabble). And the word will continue to be used "correctly" to identify a fic of a hundred words and "incorrectly" to identify a "short" fic and no champion will ever stop that spread from happening.

And so who really cares if a person uses it to describe a 100 word fic or a short fic (and what really constitutes a "short" fic)?

Well, other than the champions. But not many people actually listen to them anyways. Still, there's nothing wrong with being a champion.

The end. No tl;dr for you.

[(Anonymous)]

*throws confetti*

[(Anonymous)]

Nice try, it didn't happen like that, though.

[(Anonymous)]

Yes, it did.