[ SECRET POST #6936 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6936 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

This is such a wildly opposite experience of my many years in fandom. I mean I trust you and your experience, it's just wild to read.

[(Anonymous)]

Oh yeah, everyone's experience is different. And how and when and where you get into fandom shapes your expectations.

For example, there are so many people who came into fandom on AO3 who think fandom is GAAAAYYYYY and get shocked when we tell them a) of the existence of other archives that b) have way more het stuff than gay stuff and c) that fandom, overall, by the numbers, is actually still majority het.

As someone who predated AO3 by too many decades years to mention, it's been an all to recent experience of being actually open about wanting the cock-centered stuff.

[(Anonymous)]

Oh no, I entered fandom in the mid 90s and it has been 90% cock central since then. It was definitely different writing and the way people talked about it, but fandom for me has always been m/m slash central.

But it's probably largely based on what fandoms you were in and where you ended up online. I imagine once you start on whatever side of fandom, het or slash etc, you kind of end up following the same people to different message boards and archives etc so your pov becomes biased.

But I love reading about stuff like this. I love how we can all be going along with a basic knowledge but actual personal experiences vary so wildly.

[(Anonymous)]

When I got into fandom (oh no, I'm not dating myself at all) the slash stuff was quite literally under the table, invite only, you have to have a history known to Someone In Group before you were even considered. The het fandom had no idea we were even there and we knew we had to keep it that way (I had to wade through So Much mary-sue-self-insert to find The Someone who could get me an in). The idea that fandom has always been cock centered is such a strange one to me, when my founding experience was almost literal cock and cloak and dagger. Sorry, I couldn't resist.