[ SECRET POST #2511 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2511 ⌋

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

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02.
[The Hobbit]


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03.
[The Fly 1986]


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04.
[Slightly Damned]


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05.
[Game Of Thrones]


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06.
[DC Comics]


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07.
[NCIS]


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08.
[Roosterteeth]


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09.
[Mass Effect]
[Art: The Shepard Siblings, by bigcman321]


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10.
[Easy A]


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11.
[Sleepy Hollow]


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12.
[Sir David Attenborough]


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13.
[New Tricks]


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14.
[Hannibal (NBC)]









Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 04 pages, 078 secrets from Secret Submission Post #359.
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

[(Anonymous)]

Also count me in for not liking the super cheesy, ridiculously ooc, 'cute' stuff that 80% of fandom seems to love

[(Anonymous)]

Not just you!
I see things that everybody is screaming and "feels"ing over, and I just don't get it. So much ooc in the name of debatable cuteness. I feel like one of a shrinking bastion of people who still value canon-compliant characterization and don't think the Coffee Shop AU is the pinnacle of fanfic.

[(Anonymous)]

Ugh, Coffee Shop AU fics. That always have thousands of kudos on ao3. Or those syrupy, mildly angsty, domestic AU fics that are also so generic, ooc, and interchangeable that you could swap out the characters names with others, and it wouldn't even matter.
Glad I'm not the only one who just doesn't get it.

[(Anonymous)]

Oh man, those domestic AUs. You're 1000% right on being able to swap every single character there with everybody else.

What I'm really growing to realize is how many fics don't actually have any plot at all - it's just page after page of manufactured drama punctuated by smut, but nothing actually happens. It drives me crazy.

[(Anonymous)]

My people!
Finally someone who said what I've been feeling this whole time!

[melissatreglia]

Oh, THANK GOD other people hate Coffee Shop AUs! I seriously thought I was the only one for the longest while.

Why are the damn things so popular (and so numerous) anyway? It boggles my mind.

I don't mind curtain fic so long as it's canon-compliant (ie. about a couple that shares living space in canon, is married/dating/canonically-interested-in-each-other, are roomies, or whatever). But so many that I've read are so dull, OOC and vaguely Desperate Housewives-y that I've begun to lose hope.

Personally, I'd kill to have canon-couple argue over whose turn it is to do the laundry and how the plumber needs to be called because the kitchen sink has sprung a leak again, and basically learning how to deal with sharing space/chores and learning to be cool about each other's character-specific peccadilloes. Because, when done right, it could make for an excellent character/relationship study. But maybe that's just my wishful thinking.

[(Anonymous)]

Same here. I have never understood that sort of AU. For me a big part of a character is the universe s/he lives within. Take that person out of that universe (and to have never been in that universe) and you have a different character.

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

Same here.

[(Anonymous)]

Same here! UGH.

I'm not really into the hobbit or sherlock fandom, but I see this kind of shit in my current fandom and I find it disgusting and infantile. It's not cute.

[lex_antonia]

My main ship is Dúrin family/madness.

Imo, when the source material is particularly angsty, fandom tends to gravitate towards extra fluffy fic as consolation. I wish it didn't (I want angst; lots of it), but what can you do?

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, but fluffy fic doesn't necessarily have to be pointless and OOC. It is possible to write about fluffy moments in canon, or even have a plot that retains some canon plausibility but is just cute/fluffy.

In my current fandom it's so bad, there are more AUs than canonfics at this point. ugh

[(Anonymous)]

This happens to me with Supernatural; almost everything that pops on my dash nowadays is extreme fluff kawaii desu.

I remember, back om 2008 in LJ in a Dean/Cas community (it was the big one, but really don't remember the name, maybe gropped by an angel? On the "tips for writers" page a thing about characterization. If you want to write, try to understand the characters, have fluff, have angst, but in a way that makes sense. And the example (the thing I remember most vividly)

"Don't make Cas cry like a schoolgirl because he trued to bake a pie for Dean and he ruined it"

And I feel that's the only thing that I see anymore.