[ SECRET POST #2031 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2031 ⌋

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

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 043 secrets from Secret Submission Post #290.
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

[kamikazemusume.livejournal.com]

Don't forget the cosplayers who drag flags on the ground at conventions (then get pissed off when you try to politely point that out) and the two different groups of cosplayers who 1. did a Nazi salute near a Holocaust museum on Passover weekend and 2. posted a photo of Germany and Prussia taking aim at a building that had a decoration on it which looked very much like the Star of David (it wasn't identical, but close enough that you could tell that was the intent).

But yeah, the shipping wars can be freaking hilarious, and I say that as someone who does actually ship pairings in Hetalia fandom (though more like World/World in my case).

[serenitysquid]

Damn, why did you have to remind me of the Nazi salute cosplay incident? I can't think about that without feeling mildly nauseous.

I actually ship a few pairings too, it's just... this fandom takes shipping so seriously, it's bizarre. I mean, we're talking about what is essentially a silly comic/show about anthropomorphized countries being dicks to each other. It's not SERIOUS BUSINESS, or at least it shouldn't be. Yet this is the only fandom (that I know of) where characters who've had less than five minutes of screentime are regularly bashed for "getting in the way" of someone's OTP.

[kamikazemusume.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry I mentioned it.

Personally, I seem to recall there being shipping wars of this level of pettiness (the five minutes of screentime, as you said) in Harry Potter fandom, but I agree, it definitely shouldn't be SERIOUS BUSINESS. I thank my lucky stars that I grew disinterested in deviantART- and Gaia Online-centric fandom just before Hetalia hit big in the States, otherwise I would have had to see more of it up close and personal than I have being on LiveJournal (though it still pops up from time to time).