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[ SECRET POST #801 ]

⌈ Secret Post #801 ⌋

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

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Secrets Left to Post: 12 pages, 295 secrets from Secret Submission Post #115.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 1 2 3 4 5 6 - not!secrets ], [ 1 - not!fandom ], [ 1 2 - too big ], [ 1 2 3 4 - repeat ], [ 1 - doing it wrong ], [ 1 - take it to comments ], [ 1 - posted twice ], [ 1 - what ].
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Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

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104. BB, I have seen Sokka/Azula fic. Very recently. At

avatar_fans. Go get it.

122. SHIT the picture of Katara is gorgeous. Then I saw...the whole rest of the picture. And I think I might agree.

136. Whyyy is it spelled 'Dr.'? wow i'm really not enough of a fan to be so elitist...

140. Wow, you ARE in before every other secret professing the same thing. KUDOS :D

144. ....well maybe you just attach to a certain kind of ship? Oh, and also, thank you for knowing how retarded Romeo and Juliet is when looking at it as a romance. It's a tragedy, goddam. With stupid kids.

149. Not in the fandom, but WHOO! And just in case you feel like one of the people who are like, "I'm the worst lesbian ever because I ship het!" ....tons of straight girls slash like no tomorrow. It's nottt a big deal, bb.

154. I think it's pretty ridiculous when people get upset with New Who-only fans because... well, A. We were not alive and B. They don't play Old Who on TV. I'm an utter noob in that I haven't even seen Nine yet, so maybe my judgments aren't correct but...srsly.

158. That soldier has the BEST first name.

163. Que everyone on that server distrusting every male player.

164. That show? Made me want to work in a hotel. And... not just because of the sex.

167. You'r, like, fourteen aren't you? You sound it. "L was sooo right, I would be just like him, ooh slash!" You would not be L. You would be Misa. Used, manipulated, and caught up in something wrongwrongWRONG. That is the POINT of the series.

169. Actually, if they are who I think they are, two-thirds of that is not a US President. And I'm sure someone/several people have pointed it out before me by now,

....wtf I'm a dummy. Replace L with Light, plz.

154

ryttu3k.livejournal.com - 2009-03-17 04:47 (UTC) - Expand

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cerebel.livejournal.com - 2009-03-18 20:39 (UTC) - Expand

104: DO EEEEEET!!!!!! :D Seriously, though. There is a little hate I've seen for Azula/male, but it's not that bad that you shouldn't write up your fan fiction. I've seen that horrible comic you're talking about (God, I forgot about that bit of tongue slipped in there, thankssomuch) but the main focus was Zutara with the Sokkla as a sideshow. If anything, people will be thinking of Zutara with that comic. I really, really hope that you jot it down. The pairing has a small fanbase and I would love to see a well written story!

116: A quick google search brought up Online Gamers Anon. I really think you need to look into this, or a councilor. It's no different than any other addiction and it sounds like it's taken over your life. You need your balance back.

LOL I think that chick said that "tongue" was supposed to be her lip but still. xD

Re: 104

avocado-love.livejournal.com - 2009-03-17 02:02 (UTC) - Expand

Re: 104

lotusunset.livejournal.com - 2009-03-17 02:29 (UTC) - Expand

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*shudders*

And I thought her Hellsing fanart was... special. I hope she never gets to do a Hellsing comic. Not that the AxS fandom needs moar help to look bad already.

Not that the AxS fandom needs moar help to look bad already

Excuse me? :S

Re: 104&122

sir-hellsing.livejournal.com - 2009-03-17 02:07 (UTC) - Expand

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neurona-muerta.livejournal.com - 2009-03-17 02:11 (UTC) - Expand

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sir-hellsing.livejournal.com - 2009-03-17 02:19 (UTC) - Expand

Sorry your brain's so limited it can't handle being both.

112. ME TOO. ME! TOO!

127 - Oh, Kaoru-no-kimi. Oh, my heart. (Damn you, Ikeda! ;_; )

130 - Oh, Brahms. Why did you have to be so damn handsome... Also, Brahms/the Schumanns = OT3. Or something.

137 - Write manga about yourself and watch the money fill your pockets. :D *likes tsundere, if not IRL*

152 - Weird, in my time there were quite a lot of KyouyaxHaruhi stories...

107. I know how you feel!! You just summed up what's been bothering me for a while. I'm also close to thirty, btw, and definitely asexual (though I do ship characters and enjoy non-explicit romantic fic now and then - to each his own I say).

138. I agree - can queer shows finally get good writers? We've waited long enough!

165. YES x100000. I also wonder why people care so much......and are so judgmental about people they've never met.

113. ...You do realize that the creators said that making fun of Meg was so 'funny' was because there was nothing wrong with her? Anyway, she has such a simple design that I can't see how anybody that looks like her could be unattractive IRL. She's cute.
If Family Guy ever started treating her better I'd start watching. But only for a few episodes, out of novelty. There's only so many stupid out-of-nowhere sequences I can take before I lose interest.
119. I don't know who HUNK is, but channeling him made you get a better grade? That's awesome.
125. Germany/Prussia ftw! \o/ A fanwork got me into that pairing too. The comic doesn't give you much to start with, but if you let it blossom in your mind it's adorable.
137. You don't sound like my type of person! D: I'd cry so hard. Tsunderes are nice in theory, but...
146. Sigh. I wish that more people would learn that being a feminist and a slash fan isn't necessarily contradictory. I'm glad that you were pulled from your old way of thinking, though.
152. You really confused me for a minute. I was like 'Wait... I see no blue arrows. What's OP talking about?' lol.
158. D'aw, OP. You have my respect.
168. You know, I've never gotten why people would want to keep their fandoms to themselves, but I wish the feeling would go away. Part of it is for new fans, yes, but another is for the people that actually feel this way. It sounds like such a desperate, hopeless feeling. It kind of makes me sad. :<
170. FFFFFF-- That's a pretty maid~ ♥
And I just read that it's Yamada Taro Monogatari. omfg. I didn't know they made a drama for it! *fangirl panic* I neeeeed to watch it! D: Thank you, OP. I-ILU! ♥
171. I think it's just popularity backlash. So many people associate liking him to being a mindless fanboy/girl that the whole group of fans have been stereotyped. And, well, you're not helping matters much by thinking the same.
I think that, in time, pretty much any ultra-popular character will have its time of being bashed to smithereens. You've just got to ride it out.

Be a GM. That kills all the fucking fun in the game. I havn't touched it since i retired.

agreed. cept, jenny is awesome.

FJDFK;AJDKF!!1!

Where in the world did you find that t-shirt? Me want!

139: the only good thing about horde are male blood elves. for everything else alliance kicks horde's ass.
161: ok i can understand if this person was being an asshat BUT rofl at complaining at their character. did it ever occur to you that disregard for other people might, you know, actually be ic?

*driveby icon love*

Thanks for writing my secret for me, hun. :( I've been feeling it for a few weeks but the words were just stuck in my head.

It just feels diluted or something now.

I used to think I was asexual. I'm still not entirely sure because I don't like kissing and I don't like to be touched. I hate how everything has to be about sex. Some of the most amazing fic I've read doesn't have any sex in it. If someone watches a show just to ship the characters, that seems like they are missing the point but that's just me.

I'm not a very physical person and usually I have the libido of a brick, but I'm not asexual. I do have sexual urges and I like sex when I'm in the mood, however rarely that happens.

(Btw, I don't think that hating that everything is about sex is a sign of asexuality. Many non-asexuals hate that everything is about sex, too. Besides, shipping is not just about sex.)

166. SAME!

160. A good friend of mine is into this pairing hard core. It completely baffles me as well, but I go along with it to make her happy.

Someday, you're going to be the one posting the same secret. It will eventually drive you insane with how much it DOESN'T MAKE ANY SENSE.

118. Ugly? Her? Oh, good grief, people!

146. I'm glad that you've discovered some female characters who you find awesome, but you didn't have to become a complete teetotaler - and this is coming from someone who rails against misogyny in slash fandom... while still liking more than a few slash pairings.

At the end of the day, I don't particularly give a damn if everyone has at least one woman in their pantheon of favorite fictional characters. No, the part that makes me see red is the pattern of bitching about the female characters getting story lines and screen time and OMG, did they HAVE to be in that scene? That episode would have been SO much better with just the boys! Can't [female characters] just go away? and so on.

155. Color me confused, but I thought comics fans often referred to comics as "books," e.g. "I love that book!" and I'm talking serialized comics here, not collections or graphic novels. I could have sworn I heard that somewhere and thought, "Huh, I wouldn't really call those books..." I suppose I should take this as a sign that I should never, ever open my mouth in a comics store.

I'm not really a comics fan. I've read Watchmen, Sandman, Frank Miller's two Dark Knight stories, one volume of Green Arrow stuff and some Manga, but that's the extent of my comic book experience. Don't let my pet peeves affect your ideas of how real comic book fans talk.

102. dude, don't worry about it. I'm sure a lot of comic-nerds are really elitist about this kinda shit, but I'm one too and I say welcome.

140, hee. no worries, you're not the only one. I think everyone's had this exact moment at some point.

142 - wordwordwordword WORD. and the ending WAS better in regards to that, it always killed me that Rorschach died alone and his only friend didn't even know it happened.

146. CATWOMAN >>>>>>>>>>>>> EVERYONE. IN THE WORLD. seriously, a friend and I once started listing people who she was better than and our list was like "McGyver..Batman...Jesus.." she fucking rules. but Wondy and Babs are hardcore too XD you should get into Birds of Prey, especially Gail Simone's run, but start at the beginning. Black Canary and Huntress are just awesome, as are Lady Blackhawk and Manhunter and all them other girls too.

155 FUCKING YES OMG. It doesn't bother me with Watchmen in particular, because unlike most comics it has only one story all self-contained in 12 issues/one book, but I hate when I see a cool-seeming person with comics and squee at them accordingly, only to have them get all "it's a graphic novel." um. suck my dick. Comics are awesome and people need to quit acting like they're too cool for em.

159, omfg. I..never even thought of that before. AND NOW I NEED IT.

162, I always dug Chapel. I didn't want her to get with Spock, but I didn't think she was as pathetic as everyone claimed. she liked a guy. a guy who was awesome and totally worth crushing on. and she was a bitchin' nurse who saved a bunch of lives, so =P

Anyone have any Advil? Like a big industrial Costco-sized bottle.

I can usually admire anyone who has the patience to make a comic and keeps up with it cause lord knows I don't, but c'mon - REALLY?!?!

*headdesk*

#104 - Sokka/Azula is cool. I ship Sokka with everyone, I think...LOL

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lotusunset.livejournal.com - 2009-03-17 01:53 (UTC) - Expand

18. You’re not alone! I love her too!!!
140. me too actually. I feel horrible and I don’t want to be that fan but goddamn.
156. me too! And I want Heroes/SPN crossover fic.
159. That would be ~~amazing~~ FANTASTIC!

104. Just write it! Spend less time agonizing about haters and more time loving what you love. People aren't going to judge all Sokkla fans on that one stupid comic, and if they do, who cares? That just means they're missing out.

165 - Humphrey Bogart! That is all.

HOLY SHIT
IS THAT MERMAID IN A MANHOLE?
IF IT IS THEN OMG I LOVE YOU.

YES, IT IS.
IT'S ONE OF MY FAVOURITE MOVIES. MY FRIENDS WOULD RUN AWAY SCREAMING IF THEY KNEW.

Re: OP here

(Anonymous) - 2009-03-18 00:31 (UTC) - Expand

146. Reading all the responses to 146, I have a question that I was wondering about in the last round of feminism vs slash that maybe somebody could answer.

(This is a genuine question, not a rhetorical trap.)

When those of you who id both as slasher and feminists write slash, do you feel it's connected to your feminism, or is it more sort of partitioned as a seperate thing entirely.

I ask because I think my feminism directly impacts the way I do fandom - I seek out female characters, write stories where they have a dominant role, and femslash the hell out of them always conscious of my Rarr Feminist Rage that I don't get enough feminist stories from canon. I either love a fandom for its feminism, or lay claim to female characters with potential who were cheated by a canon that didn't do them justice. If a fandom has no strong female characters, I actively dislike and avoid it.

I'm not in any way suggesting that that's the 'right' feminist way to do fandom, just that it's the way I do it. I'm curious as to how the slasher vibe works for people who have strong feminist sensibilities.

(I'm guessing libidinal investment is a factor in this. Pretty sure the fact that I haven't the least twinge of sexual interest in men may be a relevant and less high-philosophical reason why I couldn't care less about the most slashful fandoms.)

(Lesbian who's mostly into slash pairings)

I don't see slash as explicitly feminist. Or explicitly anything, other than explicitly m/m romance (using romance in a broad sense here). I think erotic fanfic, of any type, written by women for women, can be a way for women to reclaim their sexuality, and that can be feminist. Moreover, slash (or femslash) can be a way for authors to subvert heterosexual assumptions and gender roles. But it's not inherent to the genre.

Are there slash fics that are feminist!fail? Sure, plenty of them. But I see just as much fail in het, and even occasionally in femslash (one of my fandoms, Doctor Who, has a fair bit of femslash, but much of it has the female characters fixated on a male character). I think slash can be v. problematic as well. Not just in focusing on male characters, which doesn't bother me too much (it does bother me a bit), provided there's no misogyny in the way the female characters in the story are handled (which, to be fair, is as much a problem in het, for the characters that aren't part of the pairing). But I worry about gender roles in my fic, about if I'm subconsciously using negative heteronormative patterns, if I conflate penetration and agency, etc.

Tl;dr: There's potential for win and for fail in slash.

And I prefer m/m because I ship for character dynamics and go for a certain type of relationship, and the characters in such a relationship are male 99% of the time. Were I to write original fic with such a pairing, I'd def make at least one of the characters female, and possibly both, but I'm writing fanfic, and have to make do.

Sry if a bit incoherent.

Re: 146

veronica-rich.livejournal.com - 2009-03-17 04:13 (UTC) - Expand

Throw Clara in there and I'm sold.

Best threesome in music history lol

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