[ SECRET POST #1991 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #1991 ⌋

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

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15. [SPOILERS for Legend of Korra]



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16. [SPOILERS for Cabin in the Woods]



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17.[SPOILERS for Mass Effect 3]



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20. [TRIGGER WARNING for rape]



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21. [TRIGGER WARNING for stalking/harassment]



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22. [TRIGGER WARNING for mentions of suicide/self-harm]
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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 00 pages, 000 secrets from Secret Submission Post #284.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 1 2 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ], [ 1 - unreadable ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Fair enough.

I guess this is where I'm coming from (and I don't mean this as SJ or as identity politics, just describing an experience that I've had in my life that was important): I am gay. I didn't know anybody else who I knew was gay, and there weren't many characters in original fiction that were gay and not based off stereotypes, or made out to be gay and only gay, with no room for the basic human stuff. Fanfic provided me with stories about queer people who were not originally intended to be queer, often who weren't really planned with any thought to sexual orientation at all, and thus the original form of that character is free from whatever idea the author has about queerness and just gets to be a person. Are there canon queer characters that just get to be people? Yes, but they're rarer, and what I needed was in short supply at the time when I needed it.

For that reason, there are several fandoms I was in at the time where the source material was not as dear to me as the fic. For some, I think the canon is kind of ridiculous now, but thinking of what the fandom meant to me, how it helped me come out to myself as a young teen, it's still dear to me, even if it's not what I'd currently be interested in. I think a lot of people assume fanfic is automatically meaningless- and that romantic/sexual fanfic is really automatically meaningless- but that isn't always the case.

And I don't know, I understand that some people are behind the times, I understand that people can be rude or whatever and still create something good, it's just. I can't really feel okay about someone deciding that they're the only ones who can make something meaningful out of the story. Especially because what might be meaningful to them and what might be meaningful to a fan could be totally different things, and if that fan needs some representation of herself that she isn't getting, saying "no! that is not what I meant and you aren't allowed to do it!" feels pretty cruel to me.