[ SECRET POST #3743 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3743 ⌋

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Comments

[fscom]

04. http://i.imgur.com/yCFQX76.png

[(Anonymous)]

They're funny to me. To me, they're funny.

[(Anonymous)]

Ha since I've not heard of this trend, I'm kind of amused reading through your list. Who are slaughter husbands lol

[sabotabby]

I don't like it either. With most of my OTPs, I really can't see marriage being a thing that they're into, and either making them married or tagging them as "[whatever] husbands" just feels really out of character.

[(Anonymous)]

To me, it's not about saying that they're literally married

[sabotabby]

No, I get that. It just sounds weird to me.

OP

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah. OOC... or just unjustified?
with my OTP it's just as possible for them to have the same ambivalent relationship to marriage that I do. But no, always always "husbands".

[(Anonymous)]

As someone from CSI fandom, this is not exclusive to slash pairings.

[(Anonymous)]

How do they do it in het/femslash pairings? Murder marrieds? Crime wives?

[(Anonymous)]

DA - Probably "___ Parents"

[nightscale]

I don't really mind it but I am laughing at how many versions of this you have here. xD

[kaijinscendre]

I don't mind them because they are an easy tag to find. Never heard of some of those and others I can infer but have never seen used.

[(Anonymous)]

Easy until it overlaps with another ship. It's pretty easy to overlap.

[(Anonymous)]

What does this mean, exactly. Science bros, I get, I suppose. But !husbands?

[sarillia]

I've only seen a couple of these before and I'm having fun guessing who goes with which tag.

I don't even ship them but "ineffable husbands" made me smile.

OP

[(Anonymous)]

I have to admit that one made me smile too.

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

That would be from my fandom, Good Omens :)

[(Anonymous)]

I find the whole !husbands thing cute and fun, and from what I've seen it often doesn't even mean that the pairing actually gets married in the fic.

But if you're saying that you don't like fics where your OTP gets married, then I can totally relate to that part. I respect that marriage means something important and positive to a lot of people, but the idea of marriage just doesn't speak to anything positive in me. So it always kind of loses me when my OTP get married in a fic. It's just not my scene, basically, and I find it really hard to relate to what my OTP is supposed to feel about getting married.

[(Anonymous)]

Is it just me or every person who uses the 'husbands' thing to name their ship always draw them as big beefy dudes? I never see this trend in other ships, but throw husbands in the name and they bulk up.

OP

[(Anonymous)]

I've seen that in Marvel fanart but other fandoms don't seem to do it. Some of these pairings are very twinky!

[(Anonymous)]

I first saw it as "murder husbands" in Hannibal fandom, and definitely no bulking up Will or Hannibal there.

[litalex]

I think the creator, Bryan Fuller, was the one who first used the term "murder husbands", which, unsurprisingly, caught on.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, I agree. It's just fucking annoying.

[(Anonymous)]

I think I'll stick to "Space Captain Giant Robot Boyfriends" for the term for one of my preferred couples. Because boyfriends would be an open relationship for giant alien robots. Drift and Rodimus would agree about this.

I just realized that I never connected this to marriage.

[(Anonymous)]

I always thought of it as the equivalent of 'work wife' or 'like an old married couple'.

I've never used '______ husbands', but I kind of understand why people do it. Labeling is difficult sometimes, I'm not that fond of 'boyfriends', unless the pairing is pretty young, and uh-uh on 'lovers', 'partners' is okay, but can imply something else, 'significant others' is also okay, but sounds a little matter-of-fact.