[ SECRET POST #2730 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2730 ⌋

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

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Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 045 secrets from Secret Submission Post #390.
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

Stuff you could stand to see less of in your fandom

[(Anonymous)]

Since it no longer has much weight as a secret, maybe it's just better to have a thread to vent about what's rampant and unwanted for you.

Re: Stuff you could stand to see less of in your fandom

[kallanda_lee]

Basically any fandom needs less

- shipping wars
- people who harass actors, and do things like send them fanfic or porn of themselves.
- people who think their headcanon is gospel truth.

Re: Stuff you could stand to see less of in your fandom

[tasogare_n_hime]

Not really something I'd rather see less of, but I would love to see more characters besides Dio and Lucciola in the Last Exile fandom.

Re: Stuff you could stand to see less of in your fandom

[fingalsanteater]

bullshit character hate by people who have no idea wtf they are talking about and have likely never seen the show

Re: Stuff you could stand to see less of in your fandom

[(Anonymous)]

My ideal fandom is basically a bunch of well-executed, creative art, fun discussions, and occasional humor stuff, but never to meme-levels. Maybe some fanvideos, but only if they're really good. Also hilariously awful things.

So nuke everything that isn't that, I guess.

Re: Stuff you could stand to see less of in your fandom

[feotakahari]

Lonely straight men venting their hatred of/obsession with beautiful women.

Re: Stuff you could stand to see less of in your fandom

[(Anonymous)]

Smut. I have nothing against smut. I just don't know why I can't find any rec lists with one non-smut fic half the time.

Re: Stuff you could stand to see less of in your fandom

[(Anonymous)]

Character bashing. It is just pathetic imo.

Re: Stuff you could stand to see less of in your fandom

[(Anonymous)]

I wish the ratio of twee to thoughtful writers would reverse itself.

Less ship warring would be nice and less dragging in RL social justice issues as weapons in those ship wars.

Less black and white thinking in general.

Re: Stuff you could stand to see less of in your fandom

[kaijinscendre]

People who gets over the top angry over other people's headcanons or ships.

Like I saw someone recently who went on MULTIPLE rants about how "your headcanon that _____ can pick up mjolnir is detrimental to the importance of mjolnir/Thor's character arc and being able to use it."

Even when someone mentioned that...you know individual headcanons have no affect on canon OR any other headcanon, she would not stop ranting about it.

Re: Stuff you could stand to see less of in your fandom

[(Anonymous)]

Less AUs would be nice. Sure, there are some good AUs, but when the fandom is composed of mainly AU fic and there are hardly any fics set in the canon universe, it is disappointing.

Re: Stuff you could stand to see less of in your fandom

[(Anonymous)]

a 'femslash' tag on ao3 that pulls up 99% the main m/m couple...genderbent.

Re: Stuff you could stand to see less of in your fandom

[(Anonymous)]

Catpeople porn.

Catpeople, period.

Re: Stuff you could stand to see less of in your fandom

[ariakas]

Fewer Mary Sues/Gary Stus. But that would completely gut the fandom, and besides it doesn't really matter. Write on, kiddies. Maybe someday Ghost-senpai really will notice you.

Re: Stuff you could stand to see less of in your fandom

[(Anonymous)]

The main fan-favourite pairing. I could never stand it, even when it was balanced by other, less popular but still present pairings. Alas, as the fandom is almost dead now, less of it would leave next to nada...

Re: Stuff you could stand to see less of in your fandom

[ryttu3k]

Zelda fandom has this bad habit of people developing different views on things (which is understandable, considering it's been around for twenty-eight years and has tons of games and characters and timelines!), but then deciding that they're canon and anyone else is OMG WRONG. On all sides. And getting vehemently nasty about it. I love the series and a lot of the fanbase, but I REALLY wish there was more respect for other people's views.

Also, the Pixiv tag is full of loli/shota and it's disgusting. (Pixiv lets you filter out guro, WHY CAN'T YOU FILTER OUT LOLI/SHOTA? ;_; I do not want to go browse for fanart and see ten-year-olds getting abused!)

Re: Stuff you could stand to see less of in your fandom

[intrigueing]

Shipping. Don't get me wrong -- I love me some romantic storylines and I do adore reading shippy stories. I just would really like ships, and/or the ship it/don't ship it debates, to *not* be treated as the center of attention and central key question around which all fandoms revolve.

I could also stand to see a whole lot less of shippers sarcastically going "YUP LOL NOTHING ROMANTIC/GAY/LESBIAN ABOUT THEM HAHAHA YEAH THEY'RE *SO* HETEROSEXUAL/PLATONIC HAHAHA STUPID BLIND/STODGY/HOMOPHOBIC NON-SHIPPERS."

Dudes, can't you just have a blast squeeing "omg they're so romantic/gay/lesbian" amongst yourselves? Why mock the people who aren't interested?

I could also stand to see a lot less of people dropping "by the way, did I mention how much I hate Character A/how much better Character B is than Character A?" comments into discussions that have nothing to do with the topic of why you hate A. If you have a real beef with Character A, go write an essay about it. But you don't need to drop it into unrelated conversations all the time. All it does is annoy and distract people.

I could really, really do without people trying to excuse a character's bad behavior by cooking up wild excuses, even when the writers actually *intended* the character's behavior to be bad! When it's a case of "oops, that was shitty writing" that's different, but if it was intended...c'mon.

Relatedly, "I'm actually secretly in love with you and was really jealous/frustrated so that's the reason why I did this dickish thing" does not count as a good excuse to forgive someone's bad behavior. Actually, it just makes it a whole lot worse. Which is fine, if you actually *treat* it as being a whole lot worse, rather than as the cue for the wronged character to fling themself into the other character's arms going "OMG you love me???? I don't care if you beat the shit out of me/fucked my girlfriend/bullied me and my friends and acted like a racist shithead/implemented an evil government program/fired me/turned evil/ran back to your planet and refused to speak to me for years/etc, I totally forgive you! Let's have sex!"

And I really, really hate it when people use their own meta and headcanons in layers and then insist upon it as THE only interpretation possible. Er...if that makes no sense, it's basically that instead of drawing each piece of meta/analysis from the canon, people draw some meta from the canon, then evaluate the rest of the canon based on that interpretation. For example:

-Canon Fact 1: Character A and Character B are good friends.

-Interpretation Layer 1: Character A is in love with Character B.

-Canon Fact 2: In Episode 48, Character B was dating some hot dude/chick and boasting about it to Character A, like a lot of people would with their friend.

-Interpretation Layer 2: Character B is HORRIBLE CHEATING INSENSITIVE SCUM who owes character A an apology for aggravating poor A's unrequited love and jealousy and I will proceed to interpret B's entire character based on their insensitivity to A's love!!!1111

*sigh* That's the kind of thing that belongs in *fanfic* people. It's actually fantastic to read in fanfic, in fact. Just keep it out of analysis, unless you acknowledge that it's all wild speculation. And it's totally not confined to shipping either. This is one of those things that gets all over totally non-shippy stuff too.

Re: Stuff you could stand to see less of in your fandom

[(Anonymous)]

My only "fandom" right now is Mark Watches. We're on Star Trek: TOS right now, and I'm already tired of all the shrinking away from the screen and immediate "You're creepy! NOPE! Toss him out the airlock, because he's fucking creepy!!" all the the damn time.

Re: Stuff you could stand to see less of in your fandom

[(Anonymous)]

Stiles. Just...less of Stiles. He does not need to be the center of everything ever.

Re: Stuff you could stand to see less of in your fandom

[(Anonymous)]

SO SICK OF EVERYTHING BEING CONSIDERED RACIST, MISOGYNIST, TRANSPHOBIC, HOMOPHOBIC, ETC.

I like shows about hot white straight cis men. There's nothing wrong with them.

Re: Stuff you could stand to see less of in your fandom

[(Anonymous)]

People that think not talking about their fav 24-7 means the fandom hates them.

Get over yourself ya weirdo.

Ok that's rather specific because my fandom is pretty small but there's like 3 people that do this "Shoutout to people that like ___ because us fans are oppressed" thing every so often.

Re: Stuff you could stand to see less of in your fandom

[(Anonymous)]

Social justice warriors. I'm actually to the point where I can't imagine fandom, or a place on the Internet, even, that isn't so radically "feminist" (scare quotes for a reason). I think I need to go on an official message board or something where it's super dude dominated, just to appreciate the contrast.

Re: Stuff you could stand to see less of in your fandom

[greenvelvetcake]

Putting so much weight on headcanons, to the point where people argue about it.

Re: Stuff you could stand to see less of in your fandom

[(Anonymous)]

Asshole BNFs who encourage ship wars. I wish they would use their largish fan-following to discourage ship wars rather than feed them.

Re: Stuff you could stand to see less of in your fandom

[(Anonymous)]

Fetishising of certain characters in certain situations.