[ SECRET POST #3430 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3430 ⌋

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

01.
[A Game of Thrones, Brienne of Tarth/Tormund Giantsbane]


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02.
[Lupita Nyong'o]


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03.
[Tolkien/Lord of the Rings]


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04.
[Doctor Thorne miniseries, based on the book by Anthony Trollope]


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05.
[Top Row (L-R): Orihara Izaya (Durarara!!), Akashi Seijuurou (Kuroko no Basuke), Levi (Shingeki no Kyojin), Free Cell (Phi Brain), Choromatsu (Osomatsu-san)
Bottom Row (L-R): Satomi Riou (Hakkenden), Kusatsu Kinshirou (Boueibu), Souma Hiroomi (Working!!), Takeda Ittetsu (Haikyuu!!), Natsume Takashi (Natsume Yuujinchou)]


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06.
[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]


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07.
[The Night Manager]


















Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 14 secrets from Secret Submission Post #490.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ], [ 1 2 - posted twice ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

"I think the AYRT's sarcasm was fair. Fandom, as a whole, is not exactly big on het romance."

I don't think that's a good generalization to make about fandom because it depends on what fandom you're in. My guess is your fandom participation in particular is coloring your view of just how dominant slash is.

[(Anonymous)]

My guess is your fandom participation in particular is coloring your view of just how dominant slash is.

No, AO3 statistics, as well as your basic run of the mill observation, are what is shaping my view of how dominant slash is.


49.9% of the fics on AO3 are slash.

24.7% of the fics on AO3 are het.


Slash is literally twice> as popular as het. A lead which is made even more dramatic when you factor in that there are way, waaaaaaaayyyy more het pairings in canon. The fact is, fans leap over canonical het pairings in order to ship slash pairings a huge amount of the time.

That doesn't really bother me. There are several slash pairings I adore, including the one that has been my main OTP for several years now. I like slash. And of course I wish there were more LGBT relationships depicted in the media. Because just as it's plain that fans will leap over het pairings in order to ship slash ones, the people who write the mainstream media we all consume have a tendency of leaping over possible slash pairings in order to go with het ones.

But to suggest that fandom, when averaged out as a general whole, is not wearing goggles that are liberally tinted with slashiness is just...a really, really weird denial of reality.

[(Anonymous)]

SA

Here's a pretty good article with some solid research into fandom trends, for anyone who is interested: https://ladygeekgirl.wordpress.com/2013/11/12/why-is-there-so-much-slash-fic-some-analysis-of-the-ao3-census/

[(Anonymous)]

This assumes than AO3 is representative of fandom as a whole. They believe they are, not surprisingly. But I'm not sure that's true.

[(Anonymous)]

But using stats from all fandoms combined to measure the slash ratio is just plain useless. Because there are some very, very popular slash dominated fandoms (like Haikyuu!! and SnK, which are the two leading fandoms in the anime category) and that massively distorts the numbers - far too much to say "fandom as a whole is like this".
There are plenty fandoms where more than twice the number of fics is het.