[ SECRET POST #5743 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5743 ⌋

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


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02.
[What We Do In The Shadows]


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03.
[RPGs in general]


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04.
[We are Lady Parts]


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05.
[Usada Pekora]


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06.
[Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]


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07.
[Cheers]


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08.
[The Princess Bride]


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09.
[Overwatch]













Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 40 secrets from Secret Submission Post #822.
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)]

To be honest, I think there's sort of a distinction between fandom anti behavior on one hand and the broader societal trend towards puritanism on the other. They're obviously related but they're very different things.

With the fandom stuff, honestly, I think it's mostly just the fact that the sex-positive YKINMK attitude is something that people as a whole never signed on to. It was an ideal within Livejournal fandom that many people subscribed to, especially in the circles that eventually made and were identified with AO3. But even during that time period, it was absolutely not something that everyone agreed with. And there was no real cultural compact requiring everyone to sign up to that attitude. So as fandom expanded, it was inevitable that there would be cultural clashes around that idea. And that took the form of inflamed online crazy mob shit, because that's how the Internet in the age of social media mostly works.

[(Anonymous)]

YKINMK was agreed upon, though, simply by the fact that the bullying of people who wrote Not My Kink didn't happen. Was it always the case that most people hated the kinks they came across that weren't theirs, or hated kink entirely? Probably. But they kept the hate to themselves, and that's exactly what YKINMK is. It covers everything from "I am totally fine with seeing this kink, it just doesn't quite do it for me" to "I hate this kink with a burning passion, but I'm not going to make that anyone else's problem."

[(Anonymous)]

I think the idea that no one ever fought about kinks before 2009 is probably not correct. There were specific social circles where that was true, but I don't think it's a correct statement about pre-2009 fandom in general.

Like, there were times during that period where people would fight about whether *slash* was acceptable to write, let alone kinks.