[ SECRET POST #6886 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6886 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Just one and that is Marauders. Because they are what I use to show that "Well, we ship all the men because they have more character development" is bullshit and slash is more popular because women find two men making out is hot.

[(Anonymous)]

Same. I just want the story to reflect canon. It doesn't make any sense for some character casts or canons to suddenly be openly and straightforwardly queer positive, especially historical ones, even if they were known to have been very down-low queer or willing to turn a blind eye as long as you didn't make a fuss. On the flip side some character casts or canon settings would be super queer positive so having that suddenly be missing in order to write an angsty story where your faves are long suffering little babies uwu is unreadable in the other direction

[feotakahari]

So his name is Solo, but he isn’t solo?

[(Anonymous)]

It's 2025 and people are still talking about this like it must be one or the other and isn't obviously both?

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, Solo Sikoa. Though, I think he has gone solo-ish a couple times. He was the lone wolf of his previous group.

[(Anonymous)]

90% hot men. 10% everything else.

[(Anonymous)]

+1

I just like it to feel IC for the ship and setting. I do get why people enjoy the fantasy of a homophobia-free fic though!

With historical settings, I find it jarring also when super modern identity terms are used. Again I get that it's a fantasy and not meant to be realistic when the story is written that way but I really like seeing queer characters, in settings where this makes sense, trying to put their feelings for each other into words, despite lacking the easy access to information and community that I have today.

[(Anonymous)]

Hmm, seems extreme. There are way more canons focused on male protags than female protags, and in most ensemble cast canons, the male characters are usually the leads and the main antagonists and developed more accordingly. Besides, it's often said development that makes the male characters 'hot' to fans, so it's not so neatly and cleanly separated out like that.

Some fandoms slashing male NPCs doesn't make the above generally untrue across all fandoms. If 90% of fandoms were slashing male NPCs with no canon personalities, I'd agree with you, but it's the other way around in my experience. Arthur/Eames from Inception was another big one but it stood out because it was an exception, not because it was the rule.

[(Anonymous)]

A lot of popular singers/bands. For some reason, singers and bands seem to inspire some intense devotion. Taylor Swift is the classic example here, along with kpop as a whole. Neither is really my jam, but their insane fans have made me develop a bit of a negative association to them because of the unhinged behavior. I have also included Beyonce before but it seems like maybe her fans have chilled out a little.

Also, Disney adults. Disney is fine, I maybe mildly dislike the company but appreciate/have nostalgia for a lot of the movies. But the grown 25+ adults who are obsessed with Disney are very cringe and make me dislike Disney as a whole more.

[(Anonymous)]

Why is it bullshit? Especially in this case where the male characters actually did have more character development and there barely were any female characters to ship them with at the time this got popular?
Like, of all the possible valid examples you managed to choose one where your point is actually moot.

[(Anonymous)]

K-Pop. I don't like it as is but the fans make me hate it. (This includes the Netflix movie.)
Good Omens. I liked the novel well enough back in the day but the fans, especially post-series, have been exceptionally obnoxious.
Cookie Run. I have no experience with the canon aside from knowing it's a mobile game with cookies but what I've seen of the fandom is downright unhinged.

[erinptah]

+100

I'm never going to stop sharing the story of how I got a "this cheating author is using AI, everybody report them!!" comment on an update that had no text in it. (Just images.)

The "report their profile" thing is a giveaway that this isn't sincere:

1) LLM-generated fics are not against AO3's TOS. One of the big reasons for that is, to protect real authors from being harassed through false reports exactly like this

2) If the commenter is really mad, they could've just reported the "problem" themselves. But instead, they're trying to pressure legitimate, active, non-bot users to do the reporting on their behalf? Suspicious as hell

[philstar22]

Hmmm. I'm not actually sure. I tend to just avoid bad fandoms these days. Like, I love the lore of Warhammer and Warhammer 40k, but there is no way I'd touch those fandoms with a ten foot pole.

Both music fandoms and music hatedoms tend to scare me. And celebrity culture in general. I just like the music I like, actors/actresses I like. The way fandoms have formed around them weirds me a little, and those fandoms tend to be a little scary. But the hatedoms are often much worse.

[(Anonymous)]

+10000

Most slash fans gravitate to slash for a mix of reasons. At this point, people who don't get that are being deliberately obtuse IMO. It's not that the don't get it, it's that they don't want to accept it. They only want to acknowledge what they consider to be annoying, shallow reasons for preferring slash, so they feel validated for being judgmental and self-righteous.

[(Anonymous)]

That's a bot.

[philstar22]

This. I want things to feel in-character and make sense.

Hazbin s2 spoilers- But oh GOD i'm cackling

[dani_phantasma]

(will post in reply)

[(Anonymous)]

Not to mention that when you have female-dominated casts, you usually see a correspondingly large amount of F/F shipping for the same reason: they're the leads and get more screentime and development.

Re: Hazbin s2 spoilers- But oh GOD i'm cackling

[dani_phantasma]

So after ep 4 when Alastor handed himself over to Vox there was a lot of angsty fan stuff making Alastor all broken by Vox

but then eps 5 and 6 come out and Al is just scooting around on the wheely chair he's tied to and giving Vox these smug smirks as Vox's attempts to prove himself in front of Alastor are slowly breaking the Vees apart. like "kekekeke I'm breaking up this bitch's clique and he doesn't realize it"

I think one of the fans was right when she said it went from "someone needs to save Alastor from the Vees" to "someone needs to save the Vees from Alastor"
It's HYSTERICAL

also all the Trump parallels they're doing with Vox is just damn i love this show.

[(Anonymous)]

Solo started off solo, but when he stopped being solo he was still Solo.

[(Anonymous)]

AO3 has been having a spambot problem for over a year now. They often accuse fics of being AI generated, or are generic rude comments.

Please keep commenting, creators love it. We'll take care of the botspam by deleting it.

[(Anonymous)]

hell yeah OP stay winning

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, these are AI generated bot comments. I've got them on fics over 10 years old which are obviously not AI fics. And I've got the occasional one on equally old comments!

[(Anonymous)]

This really depends on the canon for me. There's plenty of SF and fantasy canons where you have no idea what the background acceptance of queerness or otherwise might be, or where you might know in some parts but have no idea in others, or there's massive variation between places like there is in reality today.

And that said, I was gay in the 90s and compared to that, my life today *is* super queer-friendly, as you put it! I have no problem imagining a little further into the future in a positive way (though I have no problems with people doing the opposite, either.)

DA

[(Anonymous)]

+1000 I did a small fact finding mission a few years ago and went to find the largest F/F fandoms on AO3. Almost all, if not every single one, of the top ten was a fandom with more female characters than male in the source material, and the female characters were more the focus in the source material.