[ SECRET POST #4688 ]

[case]

⌈ Secret Post #4688 ⌋

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

01.



__________________________________________________



02.


__________________________________________________



03.


__________________________________________________



04.


__________________________________________________



05.


__________________________________________________



06.



__________________________________________________



07.












Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 18 secrets from Secret Submission Post #671.
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)]

I have some ships where I want to read about them making like bunnies, but I also have other ships where I just want them to have an adorable family and grow old together and I have zero interest whatsoever in imagining or reading about them doing the deed.

This whole argument that ships are about what turns you on is completely bizarre to me. Like you, what matters to me is whether I think the two characters work well together. Sometimes that involves sex, sometimes it doesn't. Heck, I ship Steven and Connie from Steven Universe and I absolutely don't want to think about them having sex at all. I just want them to have a cute, innocent first love with slow dances at school dances and awkward kisses and working up the guts to hold hands and that kind of thing.

[(Anonymous)]

DA

This whole argument that ships are about what turns you on is completely bizarre to me. Like you, what matters to me is whether I think the two characters work well together. Sometimes that involves sex, sometimes it doesn't.

Seconding all of this. I mean, yeah, sometimes my ships involve characters I also happen to crush on and all that, but that's not the main reason I ship those characters with somebody. It's just a nice side bonus :p.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeeeaaahhhh I have to say that this whole thread is making me feel really creeped out because I guess a lot of people self insert into pairings they like or something? I've written some smut for some of my favorite pairings and now I'm feeling pretty gross because I didn't intend for people to imagine themselves as one of the characters, it was supposed to be about those two particular characters and their relationship. Eww.

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

Yeah, I don't really do that when writing about my favorite pairings, either. When I want to fantasize about myself with a character I crush on, I just cut out the middle man (or woman, in my case :p) and go straight to imagining myself with them. If I'm reading about a particular pairing I like, I'm viewing it all as an outsider looking in and enjoying watching these characters' relationship develop.

But I can see where others might use another character to act out their fantasies of being with the one they crush on. Maybe they see this character as having some appealing, attractive quality they feel they wish they had, maybe using a character as their self-insert is the easiest way for them to communicate, as it were, with their character crush, maybe it's just easier for them to write a romance if they can actively imagine themselves in the shoes of the character who's crushing on someone, I dunno. There could be all kinds of reasons.

[(Anonymous)]

Ehh, I wouldn't say it's self-insert really, but sort of? For example, the slash character in a pairing I relate to most, I kind of want to see in scenarios that I would prefer, like...Castiel is the dom in the D/s I like, because I relate most to Castiel and I'm dominant.

But no, I don't imagine literally fucking Dean Winchester with the dick I don't have. I want Cas to do that.

[(Anonymous)]

This whole argument that ships are about what turns you on is completely bizarre to me. Like you, what matters to me is whether I think the two characters work well together. Sometimes that involves sex, sometimes it doesn't.

NA - Oh, it's completely necessary that I like the dynamic between the characters. That's just a basic prerequisite. The difference is that if I like the dynamic between the characters in a "ship it" way, then I want them to fuck. 100% of the time, no exceptions.