[ SECRET POST #586 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #586 ⌋

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

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 08 pages, 190 secrets from Secret Submission Post #084.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 - not!secrets ], [ 1 - not!fandom ], [ 1 2 3 4 - too big ], [ 1 2 3 - repeat ], [ 1 2 3 - take it to comments ], [ 1 - posted twice ].
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Comments

124 OP

[(Anonymous)]

RPS! Mylar is everywhere.

Re: 124 OP, a tl;dr reply.

[jlh.livejournal.com]

Shortest answer: write what you want and search for places to pimp it out and ignore the rpf-haterz

Short answer: I find that the ability of fandoms to tolerate RPS varies greatly. SPN fandom seems to be up the arse of those two actors to some extreme degree, even more than the House folks. But Heroes may be too mainstream to go down those roads. That said, I've certainly seen other secrets about that rps pairing, so you're certainly not alone.

Longer answer: Also? A lot of people have a knee-jerk response to rpf that has nothing to do with rpf itself and more to do with either (1) hearing some bnf pontificate on the subject and deciding that only 'crazy' people write rpf, so therefore saying that one doesn't like rpf is a signal that one is not crazy, or (2) they don't get that rpf is fiction and about characters just as much as anything else is, because their barrier for suspension of disbelief has an earlier trigger. Or (3) they hate celebrity culture in general, but at least those people are consistent, and think that all the gossip mags and entertainment shows are horrible, too, rather than having special venom for rpf. The (2) people I don't mind either because I have friends like that, who can't read anything about actors because then they can't "believe" their acting, or in an extreme case have a hard time reading anything that isn't set in an alternate universe because they keep fact checking it in their head.

The (1) people, of course, I have no time for.

Re: 124 OP, a tl;dr reply.

[(Anonymous)]

Thank you for the reply! Oh, I do know why a lot of people have a problem with RPS in general, but your second point is something I never considered, and a really interesting thought. Supernatural fandom (at least on LJ) is probably made up largely of seasoned slash fans who are in it for the guy/guy chemistry (not saying they're only in it for that, or that there's anything wrong with being into something for male bonding and chemistry; heck, I'm a slasher myself). It makes sense they'd largely be very used to many incarnations of fandom, and the various "extreme" ways it can and does go. Heroes being too mainstream is a good point. (Especially because I do notice a high degree of general-fandom n00b-ness there... for a lot of people it seems their first foray into fandom, in which case it makes perfect sense they'd be unfamiliar and/or uncomfortable with the notion of RPS.)

There certainly are people shipping it. But what made me wonder about that pairing is that there was an unusually large amount of secrets about it compared to how small its fanbase is. It seemed to me a case of the secrets:fans ratio being a bit skewed, which I interpreted to mean a lot of people were shipping it in hiding, not joining the fanbase.