[ SECRET POST #3039 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3039 ⌋

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

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[Starsky and Hutch]


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(legend of Zelda)


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 018 secrets from Secret Submission Post #434.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 1 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[fscom]

04. http://i.imgur.com/OH8fMQL.jpg

[dethtoll]

You mean it isn't? :o

[(Anonymous)]

Hahaha, I came here to say this too.

[(Anonymous)]

Well, to be fair most of it would fall under those categories, so someone unfamiliar with the scope and conventions of fandom could be forgiven for thinking that way.

For every one meta or critical analysis I see, I see dozens and dozens of fanart or fanfic, for example.

[elaminator]

Yea, I do think that's the way it works for a lot of fandoms...at least the larger ones. I imagine there are smaller fandoms where it might be easier to find discussion or meta than a treasure trove of fic or art, but (in my experience) those seem few and far between.

[cbrachyrhynchos]

I suspect there's a lot of sampling bias going on. For every fanfic author, how many people post comments? For every person who posts comments, how many people just read? For everyone who reads fanfic, how many are tuning into the show every week and talking about it in the staff kitchen?

Just to estimate the numbers, Orphan Black has been clocking 500,000 consistently just on BBC America. There's a bit less than 2,000 stories tagged in the fandom on AO3. That's 250 estimated regular viewers for every story.

[elaminator]

You have a point. I guess it also depends on what you consider fandom to be, because not everyone agrees on the definition.

Maybe it would be more accurate to specify 'online' fandom as being heavy on the shipping, but again, there's not any way to know just how many people consider themselves to be in fandom and what exactly they get up to.

Hmm, that's pretty interesting. Now I'm curious as to how other fandoms measure up with their viewers/fic ratios.

[(Anonymous)]

I'd actually have put fanfic readers under the same umbrella as fanfic writers.

Whether you write or consume fanfic (or fanart) then that's still a major aspect of fandom involvement for you, and it still comes under the criteria OP talks about. I didn't take their secret to be simply about the people creating fanworks (because how can you 'create' a sex fantasy in that respect? You can have a fandom related sex fantasy that you never talk about and still consider yourself part of the fandom) but those who seek them out and consume them too.

[fingalsanteater]

what else is there, though? (jk but not really)

(tbh I'd like other discussion, but good luck finding it)

[solticisekf]

And fanvideo, you forgot fanvideo.
It's like a test where you need to indicate a thing that doesn't fit - sex fantasies in this case.

[(Anonymous)]

I think it honestly depends on what fandom(s) you mean and when you found them. I was in two fandoms back in the day; one was hardly focused on sex at all, but the books themselves had so much sex I honestly think we were exhausted of it. The other one was so large that it honestly depends on where you were. Now it's definitely more romance/smut fanfic and fanart than anything else, but that wasn't always the case - necessarily.

[ibbity]

well I mean

the majority of it IS tho

and it can be really tough to find anything that ISN'T, even if you know it's out there and where to look to find it

so I don't really think people who aren't in fandom are all that to blame if they think that that's all there is, especially since some people, for whom that IS all they want to do, are often so very loud and in-your-face about it

[cloud_riven]

You sound like a podficcer.

I kid I kid. One day I too will officially join the ranks of podficcer and suffer the second hand embarrassment of others

[(Anonymous)]

or someone who writes headcanons but never actually develops them into anything

Transcript

[(Anonymous)]

Image: fandom!secrets wallpaper

Text: I hate the way people think all fandom activity is fan fic, fan art, or sex fantasies

[diet_poison]

Do people say that? I mean most people here definitely think discussion and meta are part of fandom, but...depends on where you are I guess.