[ SECRET POST #3360 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3360 ⌋

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

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02.
[Niche]


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03.
[Rush Hour 1, 2, 3]


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04.
["The Bride Was A Boy" manga]


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05.
[J.K. Rowling]


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06.
[Pretty Little Liars]


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07.
[Twin Peaks]


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08.
[The Walking Dead/The Flash]


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09.
(GIRLS)


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10.
[The Grinder]


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11.
[Pokemon]


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12.
[Lord of the Rings]


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13.
[Babylon 5, Tolkien, Star Wars, Harry Potter]


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14.
[Star Wars: The Force Awakens]


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15.
[Pete Seeger]









Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 032 secrets from Secret Submission Post #480.
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

[fscom]

03. http://i.imgur.com/ZNom9y7.jpg
[Rush Hour 1, 2, 3]

[(Anonymous)]

You could be totally right. I feel like TV series pick up much more of a dedicated slash fandom, no matter how much chemistry there is in a movie. I think something about being on TV every week keeps fans invested in looking for clues, talking about it, and then writing fic.

[elaminator]

I recently saw a commercial for a TV version of Rush Hour, so I wasn't too surprised to see this secret, but I hope you're right and that the show has a bigger shipper following. I shipped these two in the films too, so if the characters in the show have a similar dynamic, it ought to be fun.

No idea if it'll actually be decent though, or if people will give it a chance, but we'll see.

[dahli]

There's a tv series?

[(Anonymous)]

I think that has more to do with Jackie Chan being pretty old and unattractive. He has charisma, but as a goofy funny uncle, not a hot guy. Before someone yells racist, I'm asian.

[(Anonymous)]

I use uncle there as the opposite-gender cultural form of "auntie," to be more clear. Not that you see him as a literal relative.

[(Anonymous)]

Yes, agreed.

[(Anonymous)]

His characters are likeable and his movies are fun but sexy is not a word I'd ever use. If you look at most slash fandoms, the fandoms usually think the characters involved are hot together but also conventionally hot on their own, which both these actors don't quite hit.

This isn't to say they're hideous actors, but conventional TV or Hollywood hot they are not.

[iggy]

There are A LOT of older unattractive white guys that have big fandoms.

(I do think the movies are a bit too old to make a judgment call on. I think OP would have more of an argument if the movies were recent releases.)

[(Anonymous)]

That seems self-evident to me. Along with, of course, the fact that these movies weren't really marketed to teenage girls, who make up the bulk of the Migratory Slash Fandom.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm sure it describes at least a partially real phenomenon (i.e people who like slash rather than a specific pairing alone), but that phrase really weirds me out.

"Migratory Slash Fandom?" That's just...ew.

It sounds like you (general you) think there are a bunch of screaming fangirls heading south for the winter, stripping the fields of all the slash before moving on very loudly to the next....

Very disrespectful.

[(Anonymous)]

I hear you, nonnie, I do. I love the first 2 movies and actually have some unfinished stories sitting on my hard drive for this series, maybe I should dust them off knowing there are some other folks out there who would enjoy them...

[(Anonymous)]

Isn't bromance the opposite of slash?

[solticisekf]

bromance = strong friendship as far as I know.

[solticisekf]

It's more that it's a movie and not series (like Being Human for example). Buddy cop movies tend not to have big fandoms. Movies in general don't generate much following if it's not PotC.

[(Anonymous)]

It could also be cause they're rather old movies? (And unless they're hugely successful (mostly book adaptions), movie fandoms have a rather short shelf life after no new ones come out)
Cause I know a lot of very slashy movies/shows/anime that have basically no fandom now, while they were juggernauts at their time, but are old enough to not have survived the fandom move to tumblr

[ketita]

Even stuff that was a juggernaut on tumblr - like Pacific Rim. You don't hear much about it nowadays.

[(Anonymous)]

Along with peoples comments about them not being 'Hollywood attractive' on their own, as well as most of Jackie's character's being (un)intentionally goofy/unsexy, I have noticed that comedy films in general seem to have far less of a fandom presence (slash or otherwise) than say, action films, romance films (obviously), or tv shows.

I'm not sure why, I'm not a big comedy film/tv person anyway because I have such a huge secondhand embarrassment issue and too many 'funny' movies/shows have that sort of humour.

[(Anonymous)]

Zoolander is a good example of a comedy movie with two actors who aren't ugly but not conventionally attractive white men with strong bromance that gets no slash. It's not only race.

[nightscale]

Their bromance is cool and I could ship 'em, not so much in the later ones though but I think that's because I don't like 2 and 3 as much, the first will always be my fave.

I'd attribute their lack of fandom to being old and the fact that very few movies, outside of one or two exceptions, amass any kind of fannish following, comedy movies being even less likely to do so. The ones that do usually have a source material that already has a fandom that end up growing due to wider exposure(Harry Potter, The Hunger Games and the MCU are all examples of this).

[diet_poison]

Usually when people say they slash two male leads I feel like there's at least something it's based on. I really don't see it for this though.

For me it was cuz they were old so YAY RUSH HOUR TV SERIES!

[(Anonymous)]

My shipping issues was because I didn't find them attractive and because Jackie Chan is just so so so straight to me that I couldn't ship him. I just couldn't. Like, my childhood wouldnt allow it.

But! The Rush Hour TV series? Omg. My expectations are not high for the show to be any good but like, both of them are actually hot this time? Seriously have you seen them? Particularly, John Foo is super yummy. Like, yowza. I cant wait to ship the hell out of them, I really cant.

[(Anonymous)]

Very few movies get a large fandom following at all. Of those that do, they tend to be sci-fi or fantasy, occasionally action, very occasionally drama, and almost never comedy. And even those movies that do get fandoms tend to lose them within a year of the movie coming out, unless the movie's a part of a large ongoing franchise. There's nothing to keep interest after the initial rush wears off, because there aren't any new installments.

The absence of a significant slash fanbase for a fairly old trilogy of comedy movies likely has nothing to do with the race of the main characters, and everything to do with the fact that they're not the sort of thing that gains an active fanbase in the first place.

[(Anonymous)]

why would you ship them and call it a "bromance?" you realize that "bromance" means male friendship?

[litalex]

I just detest Jackie Chan so much that I can't stand the thought of slashing him.