[ SECRET POST #2470 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2470 ⌋

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

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02.
[Homestuck, Teen Wolf, Supernatural and Sherlock]


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03.
[Supernatural]


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04.
[Watashi ga motenai no wa dou kangaetemo omaera ga warui]


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05.
[Agents of SHIELD]


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06.
[Sleepy Hollow]


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07.
[Fullmetal Alchemist]


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08.
[World of Warcraft]


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09.
[Pacific Rim]


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10.
[Richard III in "The White Queen"]


















Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 044 secrets from Secret Submission Post #353.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[dragonimp]

The OP isn't. They're badly misrepresenting the story.

[likeadeuce]

So what is Winry apologizing for?

[dragonimp]

The set-up for the fic is that Winry's habit of flinging wrenches does exactly what a wrench would do if swung at someone's head and lands Ed in the hospital. But the whole point is that Ed and Winry are both responsible for how things went and are both to blame for their relationship getting to that point, because both of them acted poorly. They work it out and forgive each other.

Winry has an abrasive aspect to her personality in canon, and the only "bashing" is characters interacting with that - which isn't all that often, the fic focuses on other things - or early on when she's being called out for reacting badly (which Ed is too).

[likeadeuce]

Ahh, gotcha. Based on the secret and the summaries and somebody's sarcastic comment I was thinking she was apologizing for cheating him or something.

Anyway, sorry somebody decided to bash this particular writer, I don't think that was fair.

[iggy]

If this fic at all portrays Winry in a negative light as part of an agenda to forward their OTP, then I think it's bullshit.

And reading your comment below explaining it, it definitely does. So I'm not interested in your white knighting.

(Personally I'm kind of relieved that people ARE upset at it. The FMA fandom of nine years ago would have just been like aww yiss Winry flanderization.)

[dragonimp]

If that's what the OP were critiquing - fine. I might disagree, but that's all it would be, a disagreement. But the OP isn't critiquing at all, they're bashing, and they're exaggerating and misrepresenting to do it. They're entitled to their opinion but they're being a jackass about it.

[(Anonymous)]

Thank you.

I started but had to stop. The first story has huge blocks of text. I checked the later ones and the spacing was correct. I'd mentioned the lack of paragraph breaks, well there were few, but it was really bad and difficult and I was 'bashing the author.' How is a comment that was trying to help bashing? I stopped reading because of that.

It's a general comment - it seems EVERYTHING is considered a flame or bashing these days to someone and you can't make a comment without a white knight coming after you. If an author doesn't want to change it, I get it not everyone wants to fix older work, but maybe don't respond or just say 'thank you.' As a reader, I was trying to say it was difficult, but being labeled jealous and a hater.

[(Anonymous)]

I've had the formatting in a few of my stories get stripped when they're uploaded to various sites. It's awful and weirdly embarrassing (I don't want the people reading my fics to think that I don't know what a paragraph is!) but I always apologize, say thanks to whoever told me for alerting me to a problem, and try to fix it. (Some sites are harder to fix than others.)

And I'm always super grateful for the heads-up... although admittedly less so when seven people tell me all at the same time. (Then I take a breath and wait a moment so I can be as grateful towards the seventh person as I was towards the first.) So yeah, for what it's worth, I'd probably enjoy a reader like you.

And no, as a writer, I don't think it's bashing to tell a writer when their spelling, grammar, or punctuation has gone awry. And, depending on how you frame it, telling them that you disagree with their characterization - which you didn't but I think needs to be put in there too, given the discussion.