[ SECRET POST #5081 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5081 ⌋

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


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 13 secrets from Secret Submission Post #727.
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

secret!OP

[(Anonymous)]

I wouldn't consider this a rare ship per se? It's...this fandom is weird. It's heavily dominated by one ship just because of the nature of the show, but there's a healthy smattering of other ships being written. Is this one of those ships where people struggle to find even two fanworks or something? Not in the least. It's just a fandom that leans VERY OTP heavy.

As for how I know, I definitely didn't seek them out, I collect doujinshi and a friend of mine got out of the fandom and asked "hey secret!OP, do you want my OPM doujinshi?", and I go "sure!" Well since I don't make it known that this ship bugs the hell out of me in public because that is petty (hence the secret), she gifted me some KingxSai doujinshi and SaixSonic in addition to the GenoxSai and SaixGenos doujinshi. The reason I know about the fic was because of inappropriate tagging. It's not like I'm going to skip every fic with King involved, I really like him as a character and he and Saitama's friendship is super cute. But even with the very limited contact I've had with this pairings fanwork I can tell there's a weird amount of "break up the OTP" going on and really off characterization.

Re: secret!OP

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah but... your ship is the juggernaut. It's not a good look, I find, to be the juggernaut fan looking down on smaller ships' fans for their behavior (unless it's toxic behavior). They have no influence. And oh my god, juggernaut fandoms have SO MUCH problem with characterization and OOC depiction, and what's worse, our reach usually means that shit gets to proliferate.

secret!OP again

[(Anonymous)]

I'm really confused, because my pairing is the juggernaut I'm somehow not allowed to dislike how another pairing characterizes the characters? This is kind of ridiculous. It's not like I have ever gone up to a KingSai shipper and said so much as one word of this to them, I'm happy to see them have their little corner of fandom and do whatever they want in it. It doesn't mean that I'm not allowed to dislike what I feel is a really annoying, cringey set of tropes that they seem to lap up. Hence me writing this secret, where people expect to see things you wouldn't say in the general fandom space.

As for juggernaut pairings being OOC, that's a separate problem altogether and one I totally acknowledge. OPM fandom in general has a big problem with OOC characterization (mostly because I think people have a hard time writing a believable Saitama), but that doesn't change the fact that I find KingSai's typical fandom tropes particularly annoying.

None of that means I would bother KingSai shippers with this or say they're not allowed to ship what they ship though? I guess I'm just really confused as to what you're getting at here, that if you happen to like the popular pairing that immediately invalidates your feelings on less popular ones? That doesn't make much sense to me. I've been in the rare-pair situation plenty of times but that doesn't make my feelings somehow more worthy or needing to be protected from criticism because of it. And this isn't even real criticism, just me bitching in a semi-cloistered fandom space away from OPM fandom spaces about something that bugs me.

Re: secret!OP again

[(Anonymous)]

If you have to rationalize it this much, you already know what the problem is. This ain't it, sis.

Re: secret!OP again

[(Anonymous)]

other anon is being weirdly pearl-clutchy over you having an opinion, but you're completely okay with your petty dislike, i've got a fandom with a petty dislike of a small ship bc the shippers are notorious for deliberately tagging their cheating fic in the OTP ship tag. i've long since removed their ship from the OTP tag, but that doesn't make their behavior any less annoying and i can find them annoying for doing that.

Re: secret!OP again

[(Anonymous)]

Get some Big Ship Energy and get over it. Jesus, if even a fandom-encompassing ship isn’t enough, what is? OTP-ers are so weird.