[ SECRET POST #3349 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3349 ⌋

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

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Notes:

Early today, places to go!

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Comments

Migratory Slash Fandom

[(Anonymous)]

What do you think of when you hear that term?

Re: Migratory Slash Fandom

[(Anonymous)]

Flying south for the winter.

Re: Migratory Slash Fandom

[elaminator]

Uh, slash fans who move between fandoms because they found a similar ship that appeals to them in another piece of media? (Or at least that's what I think it means.)

Re: Migratory Slash Fandom

[(Anonymous)]

white guys?

Re: Migratory Slash Fandom

[(Anonymous)]

Cherik.

Re: Migratory Slash Fandom

[(Anonymous)]

The type of assholes, who clog up and choke other fandoms with their "x-over" AUs.

Re: Migratory Slash Fandom

[(Anonymous)]

SA

AO3 is rife with this bullshit.

Re: Migratory Slash Fandom

[(Anonymous)]

Those crossover AUs are popular for a reason. A lot of fans really enjoy them. Are you seriously going to argue that your hatred for crossover AUs is The Right Opinion, and hundreds and hundreds of other fans are doing fandom wrong? 'Cause that would actually make you the asshole.

Re: Migratory Slash Fandom

[(Anonymous)]

When the obscure categories are contains more of "popular" fandom than the fandom that actually belongs in said categories, then yes - they are!

Re: Migratory Slash Fandom

[herpymcderp]

I think of a giant herd of slash fans just making their way upriver in a cacophonous rabble like fish or birds or something.

The hidden dangers of a degree with a minor ethology focus lol.

Re: Migratory Slash Fandom

[(Anonymous)]

A herd of very horny reindeers walking on a frozen land. Possibly stopping where there's some green grass, eating everything and moving on until it grows back.

Re: Migratory Slash Fandom

[purpleseas]

Horrible characterization, copy/pasted sex scenes.

Re: Migratory Slash Fandom

[dahli]

Little caravans full of slash shippers moving around fandoms.

TW: rape

[feotakahari]

It actually reminds me of the Japanese equivalent, migratory creepy rape fetishists. It's pretty frustrating to finally find a doujin for a great but little-known series, then realize it was written by a creepy rape fetishist who writes virtually identical rape doujinshi for every show he watches. I'd take slash fans over that any day.

Re: Migratory Slash Fandom

[(Anonymous)]

I get where it comes from because it does exist, but I don't think it's quite as simple as the term suggests. For one thing, fandom as a whole tends to migrate as well, or at least focus on whatever's popular at the time. Right now Poe/Finn and Kylux are popular slash ships, but then everything Star Wars is popular right now.

I'll admit to often being part of this MSF trend, and while I can't be sure if the following things are true for anyone else, I'd be surprised if the weren't. Yes, there are ships that when I'm through with them, I completely forget even if the canon is still going on. But there are also ships that I'm still into even if the fandom is mostly dead because the canon ended years ago. I've ignored ships/fandoms that were massively popular because they didn't seem interesting while being really invested in ships that MSF shrugged at.

I understand the trend the term is describing and why a lot of people are annoyed by it. I just think it reduces people to a mindless herd. Yet another variation of 'oh, those silly fangirls'.

Re: Migratory Slash Fandom

[(Anonymous)]

I know there are some people who get into one fandom and then stay in it exclusively forever, even when there is no new canon, but I think they are pretty few and far between.

Re: Migratory Slash Fandom

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