[ SECRET POST #4226 ]

[case]

⌈ Secret Post #4226 ⌋

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

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02.
[Brave by Rose McGowan]


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[Phantom of the Opera with Sierra Boggess as Christine and Ramin Karimloo as Erik/Phantom]


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(Kim Taehyung)


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05.
(Father Brown)


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[Show: Veronica Mars; Actor: Travis Schuldt (who played Conner Larkin on the show)]


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07.
[The 100]








Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 28 secrets from Secret Submission Post #605.
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]

01. https://i.imgur.com/oso7Mzp.png

[(Anonymous)]

So... Call Me By Your Name + The Energizer Bunny...????

[(Anonymous)]

OP: I deliberately left the characters very vague, but thankfully my pairing isn't THAT much of a crackship haha.

[(Anonymous)]

Armie Hammer...yummy...

[(Anonymous)]

sounds like a party

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, it's an eternal struggle, more or less

[type_wild]

You're not alone there.

[(Anonymous)]

The peach and battery don't ping anything for me so I guess I'm not in your main fandom, but I definitely relate to the feel!

In the fandom I'm currently most active in, there's... one pairing (I'll just call it A/B) that everyone has been shipping from the start. And then I'm all in on A/C, but I'm literally the only person to have written fic for it. It's not a question of canon interaction, which is exactly the same for both. It's not even strictly about dynamic, which people interpret very differently... it's just the one that got big right away I guess.

(the people who ship A/B are very cool at least and a lot of people are happy to multi-ship, but like... it's still lonely not to have other fic for my ship on AO3)

[(Anonymous)]

OP: The ship this secret is about is like that! I ship A/B, but most of the fandom actually prefers to ship both those characters with another character, C, so there's lots of A/C and B/C. Sometimes people draw A/B/C, but nobody ever does A/B... And having no fic is the WORST :(

[(Anonymous)]

I feel you so hard OP. I have this thing where I am fundementally incapable of hardcore shipping the most popular ship in nearly any fandom (Disney animated films are the sole exception). And in cases where canon pairing is not the most popular pairing, I'll tend to be indifferent to both the canon and fanon faves. I tend to gravitate towards an obscure/underappreciated pairing and be one of like 3-7 people if I'm lucky.

[nightscale]

You have my condolences OP, I tend to get lucky and jive with a ship in a fandom that's either the biggest or popular enough to have some content, but I do have my rare-pairs and it's always a bit disappointing to realise that it's basically just me alone in a corner with my feelings.

I can't imagine what that'd be like if it was 99% of the time so you do have my sympathies.

[(Anonymous)]

Same. The longer I'm a fan of something, the weirder my ships get.I'll start off loving the canon ships, move to side pairings and just keep going.

My favorite otps have literally nothing. One of them I've never seen mentioned despite being from a hugely popular show.

[herpymcderp]

Hey don't feel bad, OP.

...In a lot of my fandoms, I'm probably the person who wrote that one fic. Rarepairs are both my blessing and my curse. And trust me, I appreciate all of the little kudos; even though I know I could just write something for the pairing of the week and get a thousand hits, I'm happier knowing I contributed something you can't find anywhere else.

[(Anonymous)]

If you do exchanges, one way to potentially convert fans to your ship is to request your OTP and write a letter in which you give a bunch of interesting prompts and/or discuss what you love about the characters' canon dynamic.

You're very unlikely to unseat the juggernaut ship, but you may get some people to at least consider the possibilities of your OTP. And if you luck out and get assigned to a great writer or artist, then whatever they create for you in the exchange may do the work of converting fans to the ship for you.

[(Anonymous)]

OP: Holy shit, that's smart...