First World Problems · 3:11am May 13th, 2012
I take fanfiction seriously. It's serious business after all; real people use real time from their real lives to read fanfiction. That said, there are some people that take fanfiction REALLY seriously.
What if I told you that there was a place for people who "feel that your most successful story doesn't actually deserve that success, because one of your other stories is so much more deserving."? For people who want to complain that it's not the RIGHT fic that went viral and netted them countless views and followers? For people who feel like a 'hack' because something they didn't put much effort into became famous?
Is that you? If so, Victims Of Magnum Opus Dissonance feels your pain. No, seriously: it says so right in their intro. Now that I've joined, I feel your pain too.
This is the sort of issue that's worth taking the time to make a group about. This really matters. Some people may try to sully that by making passive-aggressive blog posts about the group, but we know how serious this issue is, even if our founder no doubt made it as a joke. I mean, no author could seriously take a fic with enough views to put it among the top hundred fics on the site and submit it to a folder named 'Stories We WANTED To Be Famous'. Could they? That would be absolutely ridiculous. It has to be a joke. Right?
Right?
Anyway, I'm going to go put on some thick-rim non-prescription glasses and peruse some of the fics that people WANTED to be famous. Meanwhile, people will continue to die of starvation in third world countries, college graduates will continue to move back in with their parents because they still can't find jobs in this economy, neo-Nazis and hard-line Communists will continue to gain power in European elections, and North Carolinian fundamentalists will continue to pat themselves on the back for denying civil rights to lgbt people. I mean, all that sucks, but at least we know what's REALLY important, what's REALLY worth our time, don't we?
Ah, jeez.
Who knows, perhaps one of those neglected gems secretly holds the key to fixing all the world's problems. It would be a disservice to humanity to ignore that possibility.
I've heard of similar things in music. For example, Tchaikovsky wasn't that fond of The Nutcracker, and we all know what he's the most famous for...
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This feel. I know it.
The people shall continue fapping, and the crotches shall continue being abused dl.dropbox.com/u/31471793/FiMFiction/emoticons/misc_Fluttershy_umad.png
I have no idea if this is serious or not, but I love it either way.
If the story is a good story, then you just posted/got approved in the wrong hour. Time has a lot to do with it, people coming back from school, automatically logging in and checking newest uploads. No better time than that.
Now I feel bad about how long it took for me to actually fave Merely A Mare after reading through it offline
I seem to be doing that with a lot of stories, now that I think about it.
My name is Kittyhawk Contrail and I approve of this post.
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Your image is broken...
121870 then have that one. twice
(p.s. just fucking with you, I agree, although it is annoying when you throw something together and it's adored, and you work hard on something and it's ignored)
112688 Swan Lake? I played Loom so I think of Tchaikovsky in those terms.