[ SECRET POST #2623 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2623 ⌋

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 #375.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

it's usually a matter of old people not understanding fan culture

*raises eyebrow*

[(Anonymous)]

Sup? Come at me bro

da

[(Anonymous)]

I'm fifty and cut my writing teeth on fanfic--for years!--before I felt comfortable enough in my own style to write original fiction. If someone wrote slash hatesex between the hero and villain in my novel, I would feel like I've arrived.

I'm pretty sure age has nothing to do with "understanding fan culture." Elitism, however, I will not argue with. Because how dare the plebes sully My Precious with their cooties.

Re: da

[(Anonymous)]

I think elitism is definitely a major factor, and not just when it comes to people writing fanfic about an author's own work.

It used to be that in fandom you were elevated from mere fan to pro simply by having published a novel and those who were published wanted absolutely everyone to know that they were published so all would understand that they were now superior people. (You still see this sometimes at certain cons - and it's hilarious to watch someone get really full of themselves because they just published a book and everyone else in the room is like "And who are you...?" I think it's less common on the internet and at cons that don't focus much on written media.) Even if the published author used to write fanfic or still does for fun, he or she is still superior to fanfic writers for having published something. If your published work looks too much like fanfic, though (say, if it's a licensed tie-in novel or everyone knows you started it as fic and the just filed off the serial numbers) a lot of small-time published authors will side-eye you because you're clearly just a poser and they don't want to accord you the same status in the fandom hierarchy that they think they have.

[(Anonymous)]

Let me guess, you think fandom started with Tumblr.

Okay, okay, Livejournal. But no further back.

[(Anonymous)]

NAYRT, but I think that, even if it's true fan culture had a much earlier starting point, the people who were active in the scene back in those days were on the young side at the time. They may still be in fandom now, in their older years, but they entered it when they were probably not that much older than the typical tumblrite today. People who first encounter fandom as older adults have a more difficult time accepting it.

[(Anonymous)]

Ahaha. No.

[(Anonymous)]

Have it your way, but of all the people I've met over the years who mention having been in fandom as early as the 70's, none were themselves in their 70's or anything. They joined fandom as young adults.

[(Anonymous)]

Nayrt Your experience is not universal.