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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2008-10-14 05:01 pm

[ SECRET POST #648 ]


⌈ Secret Post #648 ⌋

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

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102.
[FF7; Crisis Core]


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103.
[Parting Glances; Steve Buscemi]


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[Transformers movie/New Knight Rider]


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105.
[Creepy houses in Stephen King novels]


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106.
[Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's]


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108.
[Dexter]


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[Looking for Group webcomic]


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[Tales of Symphonia]


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[Supernatural]


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[Persona 3; Minato/Aigis]


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[Dallas]


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[Doctor Who]


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[To the Manor Born]


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129.
[BNFs?]


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131.
[Jonathan Coulton/Portal]


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132.
[Prince of Tennis]


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135.
[Pushing Daisies]


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136.
[House MD]


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[Supernatural]


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140.
[Emma Watson]


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141.
[The French Revolution?/Shipping]


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142.
[The Dark Knight]


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143.
[Prince of Tennis musical]


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144.
[Kiefer Sutherland]


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[Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's]


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[Code Geass]


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[Spongebob Squarepants; Squidward]


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159.
[*secret comms]


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[Fullmetal Alchemist]


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163. [not fandom]


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[CHUCK NORRIS]


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172.
[Fullmetal Alchemist]


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[Batman Begins; Scarecrow]


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[Supernatural]


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[Henry Rollins]



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(Anonymous) 2008-10-15 06:57 pm (UTC)(link)
you've just assumed that because I said it can be OOC

You're right. I'm sorry about that -- in my defense it was very late when I wrote my last few replies and my brain wasn't working well.

I don't think I'm being heteronormative when I make an argument for a happily married man being mostly straight and as disinclined to experiment as he is to cheat on his wife

Hmm... Do you mean experiment while he was still married? Because, in that case, I absolutely agree. But I would say that it is heteronormative to assume that a happily married man is mostly straight. There are plenty of bisexual people in long, stable heterosexual relationships, after all. Depending on how long the man has been with his wife, it's even possible that he had a few gay relationships before they were married.

I believe in a sliding scale of sexuality, but I don't think everybody slides from 1 - 10

I agree. While there are characters out there that I can buy as closeted gay men/lesbians, they're few and far between. You do have to take the characters previous heterosexual relationships into account when writing slash.

On the other hand, a lot of the hostility from that could come from the fact that meaningful platonic relationships in media are most usually between two men. Eliminating platonic relationships becomes an unintended side-effect of slash that draws a lot of ire.

Do you mean that slash is eliminating depictions of meaningful platonic relationships in the media? Because I haven't seen any evidence of that (though, now that I think about it, this may be true in anime fandoms. But since that's based on stuff I've heard from people who aren't even in those fandoms I probably should keep my mouth shut). While a few shows, House, for example, may occasionally play with homoerotic subtext, it never moves beyond fanservice. House and Wilson aren't going to start dating just because a few fans want them to. Besides, this sort of thing isn't exactly new: Due South was deliberately playing up the slashy subtext more than ten years ago. So, my point is that there is an increasing number of people who are interested in seeing two men (or two women) together and we're likely to see this reflected in the media. But the market for stories about platonic love between men than is significantly larger and will probably remain much larger, so I don't think it's in any danger of becoming extinct.