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fandomsecrets2020-07-03 06:37 pm
case) wrote in fandomsecrets2020-07-03 06:37 pm
[ SECRET POST #4928 ]
⌈ Secret Post #4928 ⌋
Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.
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04. https://i.imgur.com/D25cLFc.png
[Emma 2020, OP warned for male nudity (from the back)]
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[Star Wars Expanded Universe, resized]
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06. https://i.imgur.com/R7v6vL6.png
[365 Days, OP warned for image of a dub/non-con sexual situation]
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07. [SPOILERS for Far Cry 5 and Far Cry New Dawn]
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08. [SPOILERS for The Magnus Archives]
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09. [WARNING for sexual assault]
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10. [WARNING for discussion of transphobia]
Notes:
Secrets Left to Post: 00 pages, 00 secrets from Secret Submission Post #705.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 1 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.
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(Anonymous) 2020-07-04 02:26 am (UTC)(link)SPN, for example -- you enjoy the show, you read/write fic, but if you want to have an even CLOSER involvement, you go to cons (which I never could afford back in HS and I certainly wouldn't pay for now -- $350 for a photo op, lmao next)
Or anything in MArvel (MCU, comic books period) -- the cons, the merch, exclusive experiences or things of that nature.
Even HP, their merch and the new play, and the new movies--
All these things have existed before, in a vast array of fandoms. But (imo) because of social media, and more access to content, content makers/creators/actors/etc., things seem more...commercial?
I have a Capt America shirt (love MCU Cap). Granted it's a comicbook version, but I still wear it. Now I am doing advertisement for MArvel/Disney (that's a HUGE one), that I/someone else paid for. And again, it's always been like this, but now there is a sense of it being much more brazen.
Op, maybe I too misunderstood you. But that was my interpretation.
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(Anonymous) 2020-07-04 03:26 am (UTC)(link)no subject
(Anonymous) 2020-07-04 04:41 am (UTC)(link)I'm speaking more to the fans themselves(who will pay to go to the con, buy merch, then share that content, which may lead possibly "finding new customers" aka new fans, who will then promote the material and the content -- again, nothing new, but seemingly more prolific because of the way fandom is shared now.
I think about it like this -- I come to this site. I literally had no interest in the MCU franchise, but a fanwork (a user here had a cute icon of Bucky -- I was intrigued and easily swayed by a good looking man) convinced me to go out and watch the movie(s). Knowing how much I liked that particular franchise, my brother went out and got me a Cap shirt. I then continued to invest in the franchise. Fandom advertised (inadvertently, or perhaps by the very nature of fandom itself -- you want to share and be excited about something you like, no harm or shame in that) a work that I was unfamiliar with. And then I go out and see it with friends.
I continue to say that this is nothing new, because this is the very nature of fandom, or a recommendation. Quite often, however, fandom isn't necessarily recommending itself outside of its bubble -- if I don't explore the Dragon Age fandom, I am not likely to encounter it and invest in it. However, because I did come into contact with a particular fandom through (a minor) fanwork (an icon). I don't know if I'm making sense. But yeah.