[ SECRET POST #4378 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4378 ⌋

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 39 secrets from Secret Submission Post #627.
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

[(Anonymous)]

Uhhh... walk me through your thought process here. Do you think that people who only have one ship are secretly veeeeery unhappy, but avoid pursuing other ships for... reasons? If they were bored and wanted more variety, surely they'd... you know... find more variety?

Could it be that they're content with the one ship, even if you wouldn't be content in their shoes?

[lauramcewan]

this. I can't force myself to be interested in other pairings if I'm not interested.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah. I mean, if I'm bored, I find other things to do, and if I find other things to do then I'm not bored and have no reason to lament the fact that I don't have more ships (which wouldn't help me not be bored anyway, if I find the other ships boring).

[(Anonymous)]

MTE. This secret just seems irrational to me. I mean, there's absolutely nothing wrong with multi-shipping, obviously. But the whole "I don't understand people who only ship one ship" thing is just...I mean what's there to get? We ship the pairings that make us feel shippy.

Also, how would it be more boring to ship the most popular pairing? Like, yeah, having a nearly unlimited supply of fanfic for my ship is so boring. Having lots of prolific, skilled fanfic writers writing for my ship is the worst. I don't know how I cope.

Honestly, having spent the last..twelve years..shipping the main pairings in two major fandoms, I'm not sure I'll be able to get really deeply into a smaller, less popular pairing/fandom ever again. I've been too spoiled by always having an abundance of reasonably good fic to read.

[(Anonymous)]

Exactly. I admit that questions like this annoy me a little because they seem more like an excuse to judge and not really about someone's curiosity. Maybe I'm being unfair and OP is one of those people who simply cannot compute when confronted with other people liking different things than they like, but... it's not a complicated or rare concept.

[(Anonymous)]

DA Yeah, this right here. The "no fun allowed" sign is really bizarre, OP. Do you think they're all in denial? That they just imagine they're having fun in fandom?

Also, you say you know people are allowed to enjoy fandom however they want, but obviously not.

[(Anonymous)]

Also, you say you know people are allowed to enjoy fandom however they want, but obviously not.

That's not really fair. OP's secret is pretty mystifying, but they're not actually telling anyone to stop doing fandom the way they want to. Just saying that they don't understand it.

[(Anonymous)]

nayrt - I think people are interpreting that supposed lack of understanding as a passive-aggressive criticism, because that's often the case in many situations where people "don't understand" simple concepts.

Examples:

"I don't understand why you wear that ratty old sweatshirt instead of the nice blouse I bought you!"

"I don't understand why people eat sushi, isn't it gross???"

"I've never understood people who get tattoos, aren't they afraid they'll never get a real job???"

OP

[(Anonymous)]

Wow! I'm sorry i didn't mean it that way AT ALL! I meant genuine lack of understanding (sorry I'm autistic and sometimes I don't get my point across). It was more me going "I would get bored if I didn't have multiple different relationships to explore and can't understand only being into one thing", but not in a "how dare you only ship one thing" way. Clearly did not express that well, my bad :0