[ SECRET POST #4103 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4103 ⌋

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

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 08 secrets from Secret Submission Post #587.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 2 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

Re: Fandom Police

[(Anonymous)]

Not so much policed but I got a lecture recently about how using someone else’s lipstick is really gross, how the character would never do it and that there’s a huge risk of contracting oral herpes that way. Which yeah, fair enough.... except said character at the time was participating in unprotected oral and anal sex with someone who there was no reference to getting tested/exclusivity??? But yeah, the real danger there is lipstick herpes, not genital herpes/every other possible STI/D. I don’t know if that’s where the suspension of disbelief ran out or if kids today honestly know more about make up than sex education but really, that’s what concerned you.

Another one, again not really policing but I was told a ship couldn’t ever possibly be noncon or dubcon because of Character A’s “obvious crush” (fanon, not canon) on Character B when I tagged an extremely dubcon fic as extremely dubcon. That one deeply disturbed me because having a crush does not equal consent and I could just see it spiralling into a real life justification and ended up having to point out that I would not be ok with someone doing anything to me without my consent, no matter how big a crush I had on them. We had to agree to disagree in the end but every so often I think about it and... I just hope the don’t see it that way IRL, either to justify something shady or because they’ve had something done to them and we’re made to believe it was their fault/it was ok because they liked the person/flirted with them. The whole thing really skeeves me out because there’s no good angle.

Lastly, and as far as I’m concerned this one is policing. I was in a general fandom space and a post explicitly said “if you have any questions, please ask them in the comments” and then I got dogpiled, by anon/anons because I asked a question. The question wasn’t offensive, it was me asking someone what a specific fandom term meant to them as there had been confusion over that and other terms and as this term wasn’t in a language I speak, but that OP did speak (stated in their comment), I asked them what it meant to them. OP happily replied to me and was very gracious about clarifying the term, welcoming any more questions I might have. But one anon seemed to really hate the fact we were talking. They didn’t hate on the topic, it was just demeaning comments about me asking a question (in a questions post) and how I shouldn’t be wasting my time writing out comments/talking to another human being when I could just google it. Never mind that googling it gave me the wrong information in the first place, hence the confusion. It was literally like having someone walk into a discussion group and yell “no talking!” In the end, they realised they had said something that connected back to their ID and claimed that all the other comments were actually someone that was not a member of the community and just happened to be stumble on it randomly (sure, jan). My main take away from that was, maybe because the way fandom is on tumblr (reblog/like but no real way to talk), even though this wasn’t on tumblr, is that there are clearly some people out there that can’t communicate on a human level anymore, where two people having a discussion, in a place specifically for discussion, made them so angry that they felt the need to break it up.

Re: Fandom Police

[(Anonymous)]

Wow, just wow, to all of those.