[ SECRET POST #2866 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2866 ⌋

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

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[Strictly Come Dancing, linked for nudity]


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08. [ SPOILERS for Bleak Expectations]



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09. [ SPOILERS for Watchmen ]



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10. [ SPOILERS for Transformers: More than Meets the Eye ]



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11. [ WARNING for child sexual abuse ]



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12. [ WARNING for rape, gore, etc]

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Comments

[iggy]

There's absolutely a lot of avoidance of black women in fandoms.

[(Anonymous)]

Examples?

[(Anonymous)]

And I guess I should specify, by examples, I mean examples where het fandom skipped over the obvious pairing with a black woman to make a less obvious pairing with a white woman more popular. Because I'm not thinking of any. Doesn't mean there isn't any of course - just that that hasn't been my experience. But I have seen that happen in slash fandoms.

[brooms]

i think there's a lot of that with the flash and barry/caitlin (snowbarry is the portmanteau, i believe), but i suspect it'll be nipped in the bud by the show itself.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, it's too early yet to say how this one will come out. Barry/Iris seems slightly more popular on AO3, but Barry/Caitlyn is more popular on ff.net. But there's not all that stories posted yet on either site.

This one's complicated, because of its association with Arrow fandom. Part of the issue with Iris is that she's dealing (unfairly IMO) with carryover from Arrow fandom's loathing of Laurel Lance (who is white). Iris was tagged as Flash's Laurel before the first episode had aired. She's the comics canon love interest (which did not work out well on Arrow), she's the only main character not in on the secret right now (something I hope the show rectifies very soon). And beyond that, there's the complication of the writers deciding to have had Iris's father take Barry in to raise after his mother died, so that he and Iris grew up together, and Iris treating him like her adorable nerd brother. On the other hand, Caitlyn has been tagged as the Felicity, the genius girl, the girl in on the secret, the girl on the "team". I'm not sure any of that would change if Iris was white.

The show's young though - we're only four episodes in. Hopefully the fandom will develop an identity of its own that isn't Arrow fandom 2.0.