Okay, The Promised Rundown Of Wank...

[redbrunja]

From fandomsecrets  #857: 

103 - I honestly feel really, really sorry for her platonic friend. I'm not sure what she wanted in reaction to posting this - a pat on the back for not doing someone who she didn't want a relationship with? a cookie for having someone crushing on you? Regardless, fandomsecrets is SO not the right forum.

115 - ha, ha word.

I talked about 123 in my last post...

137 - oh my god this is the best idea ever! So if you start seeing secrets about how redbrunja's fics got someone through chemo or ruined them for real men.... I'll have had nothing to do with it.

143 - actually, I kinda agree. I had it when writers dig at the fandom like that. Honestly, it's one of the reasons I think the creators of a show and the fandom should be fairly separate. 

152 - TROLL.

Comments

[the-sun-is-up.livejournal.com]

I think my favorite response to 103 was something like "Was this written on crack?" Most of the other commenters had similar reactions and so did I. W.T.F.

137: hehehe

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

*nods*

Yeah, crack or she was totally wasted.

If you think about it, it would be a great way to build buzz about your fanfics.

[the-sun-is-up.livejournal.com]

And a comment in response to 152:

dragoon1940: special abilities wat.
--Anonymous: psychometry, telepathy, and what i think is telekinesis but can't be sure.
----Anonymous: How can you not be sure you have telekinesis? You can either move things with your mind or you can't...

rofl.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Anonymous: How can you not be sure you have telekinesis? You can either move things with your mind or you can't...

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

[goldengrimoire.livejournal.com]

103: I didn't even understand what was the point of this one.

115: I dunno, if you're able to focus enough to analyze your sexual encounters for fic fodder as they happen, you're doing it wrong. Afterwards? Absolutely! :D

137: Brilliant.

143: (I don't really follow this show.) I agree, but at the same time, I think maybe fandom is often far too quick to take offense as well when it comes to stuff like this. I mean, the average non-fandom person is grossed out by incest, it's not that big a surprise that the creators of the show might be too and will poke fun at it. Fans need to remember that just because they see certain subtext everywhere, it wasn't necessarily intended to be there and the creators might think they're nuts for seeing it. However, I also don't like it when creators crap on the fans just because of fans seeing subtext they don't approve of. I suppose it depends on how virulent the creators are in dealing with it; are they just poking a bit of fun at it or being complete assholes?

I think I can kind of empathize with the creators a bit more than I did before since I started writing; it's a bit of a weird experience to reread something I wrote and notice subtext that I didn't intend to put there originally.

I do agree that at times creators and fandom should be kept separate, if only because sometimes creators aren't exactly good with people or dealing with criticsm about their work.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

103 - basically, someone wanted my hot pussy, flatter me!

143 - See, poking fun at the fans usually feels really, really meanspirited to me, so I wish writers would just ignore it, you know?

I do agree that at times creators and fandom should be kept separate, if only because sometimes creators aren't exactly good with people or dealing with criticsm about their work.

Very, very true.

[goldengrimoire.livejournal.com]

143 - See, poking fun at the fans usually feels really, really meanspirited to me, so I wish writers would just ignore it, you know?

It's tough for me to say, because I think sometimes a shoutout can get misinterpreted as an insult as well.

I was just thinking about an episode of Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei where they use an exclusive restaurant as a metaphor for coming into a series partway through to make jokes about 'first timers'; a newbie eventually gets the boot for being annoying, and then a bunch of superhardcore fans show up and get all nitpicky, and then they get the boot too. That show pokes fun at fandom a lot, but I find it to be quite funny and you can feel the love for the fans there as well, since it ended up being kind of a cult series.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm glad it worked there. I've just seen several shows where it really, really didn't.

[goldengrimoire.livejournal.com]

I think it works better when it's obvious the creators are also huge geeks.

But I have seen it done badly as well, so I do see your point. :)