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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2019-04-06 02:53 pm

[ SECRET POST #4474 ]


⌈ Secret Post #4474 ⌋

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

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[Genie and Jafar from Aladdin]


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03.
[Project Runway (Afa)]


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[life of pi]


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[Chris Evans]


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[Star Trek: Discovery]


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[Suicide Squad]


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[historian, author, and presenter Lucy Worsley]


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[Good Omens, by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman]















Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 57 secrets from Secret Submission Post #641.
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.

(Anonymous) 2019-04-06 07:57 pm (UTC)(link)
"People who think Aziraphale and Crowley are boning are unconsciously prejudiced against non-romantic male bonds" is kind of a wanky opinion
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[personal profile] liz_marcs 2019-04-07 12:45 am (UTC)(link)
Eh. The secret is strongly worded, but I guess I can see someone getting frustrated if the thing that turns their crank is platonic friendships and all they see is ship-fic. I mean, the OP was expressing the same frustration with turning platonic M/F relationships into romantic ones, so I'm not convinced they're specifically targeting M/M.

In all honesty, when it comes to Good Omens, I personally think it's a case of "you do you." The relationship is written in such a way that you can read whatever you want in it. If you see a layered friendship, fine. If you see a romantic relationship, fine.

It's a closed-canon, stand-alone piece of work where the authors had no strong feelings one way or the other about how fans saw the A/C relationship. And as far as I know, Good Omens fandom never got wanky over it.

Now if someone, somewhere loses their minds and turns the mini-series into a full-blown continuing series, then all bets are off on the ship-wank front.

(Anonymous) 2019-04-07 01:29 am (UTC)(link)
I get why somebody would be frustrated about their preferences! And I agree that it's ambiguous and open to multiple interpretations. If I disagree with a secret, it's only to the extent that OP is rejecting the idea that it's ambiguous, and calling other interpretations "bleating" based on "unconscious prejudice."

SA

(Anonymous) 2019-04-07 01:35 am (UTC)(link)
If I disagree with this secret it's because of those reasons, not with any secret in general