[ SECRET POST #4422 ]

[case]

⌈ Secret Post #4422 ⌋

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

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[Jimmy Carr]


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[Gerard Butler and Craig Ferguson]


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[Harry Potter]


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[Doctor Who]


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[Stargate Atlantis]


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[Harry Potter]


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[Image Source]











Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 27 secrets from Secret Submission Post #633.
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

"Fanon" that surprised you by turning out to actually be canon

[ibbity]

Anyone ever have the experience of getting slightly into a fandom, seeing what you assume is just random fanon all over the place, and then upon getting deeper into the media discovering that it's genuinely supported by canon?

Re: "Fanon" that surprised you by turning out to actually be canon

[ibbity]

Putting mine here so as not to be a big wall o' text in the "head" comment.

I like Les Miserables. I haven't seen the show, or any of the screen adaptations, but I like the songs (I listen to both the original London cast recording and the original Broadway cast recording.) I liked the story behind the songs. Recently decided to see what the fandom was like, and discovered that everyone and their dog was quite convinced that Grantaire was extremely gay for Enjolras and possibly vice versa. I was like "lol shippers gonna ship" and didn't think anything of it.
Then I decided to go back and read the book again; had been a while and I didn't remember most of the details because it's approximately 100,000,000,000 pages long.

I'm in the habit of reading older books, and have a passing familiarity with the classics (as in, Greek/Roman philosophy, mythology etc) both because I'm a historian and because you kinda have to to get a lot of allusions/references in older books. So I'm quite conversant with 19th century literary conventions, including how they tended to handle sexuality. And yeah, there is HELLA subtext in Hugo's depiction of Enjolras and Grantaire. By the standards of the day, it's...not subtle. It's not a huge plot point, but it's kinda difficult to ignore, especially if you understand all the classical allusions (if the nod to Plato's Phaedrus was intentional, it's a very blatant one.) So I apologize to the Les Mis fandom for assuming that they were creating this ship out of thin air, but in my defense, this is to my knowledge the only time I've ever been wrong about "shippers gonna ship" versus "the slashiness is legitimately canon."

Re: "Fanon" that surprised you by turning out to actually be canon

[(Anonymous)]

yeahhhhhhhhhhhhh they are hella gay, even in the brick.

Re: "Fanon" that surprised you by turning out to actually be canon

[(Anonymous)]

LOL.

Re: "Fanon" that surprised you by turning out to actually be canon

[(Anonymous)]

i don’t have much to add here but as a long term F!S Les Mis(and eR) fan - hell yeah.

Re: "Fanon" that surprised you by turning out to actually be canon

[ibbity]

and WHERE are all ur les mis secrets may I ask

since now it occurs to me if I submit any people will know who did it lol

Re: "Fanon" that surprised you by turning out to actually be canon

[(Anonymous)]

Not in the fandom, but this was my reaction to hearing the vampires sparkled in Twilight. I thought people were exaggerating, but nope. I still get a laugh out of it when I remember.

Re: "Fanon" that surprised you by turning out to actually be canon

[(Anonymous)]

I genuinely thought people were sporting Twilight when I heard about the sparkling. It took a while to realize that no, it's canon.

Re: "Fanon" that surprised you by turning out to actually be canon

[(Anonymous)]

The best part is her trying to describe how they're smooth (like marble!) but also glittery like they have millions of tiny facets (like diamond!).

Fucking pick one. You can only have one.

Re: "Fanon" that surprised you by turning out to actually be canon

[(Anonymous)]

maybe she was doing a bad job of describing mica infused granite. That's smooth and sparkly. You can add special mica sparkles to concrete too and get the same effect. SF had tons of sidewalks like this. One of my favorite things about the place. Glittery sidewalks.

Re: "Fanon" that surprised you by turning out to actually be canon

[chamonix]

Fandom had a mantra back when this series was everywhere: "Twilight means never having to say you're kidding." It really is true.

Re: "Fanon" that surprised you by turning out to actually be canon

[malurette]

Riza being Grumman's (estranged?) granddaugther in the FMA manga.