[ SECRET POST #2051 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2051 ⌋

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

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02.
[To Boldly Flee]


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03.
[Teen Wolf, Supernatural]


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04.
[Community]


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05.
[Gravity Falls]


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06.
[Farscape]


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07.
[Earth 2]


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08.
[Black Butler/Kuroshitsuji]


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09.
[Pokemon]


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10.
[Super Mario Galaxy, Suikoden Tierkreis, Pokemon, 999, Redline, Code Geass and Macross Frontier]


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11.
[Venus Ni Seppun]


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12.
[Brokeback Mountain]


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13.
[A Song of Ice and Fire]


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14.
[Tatta Hitotsu No Koi]


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15.
[Xena: Warrior Princess]


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16.
[Tom Hiddleston]


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17.
[Figure It Out - Matt Bennett]


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18.
[Dragon Age 2]


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19.
[Teen Wolf]


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20.
[Law & Order: SVU]


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21.
[Benedict Cumberbatch/The Hobbit]


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22.
[Florence Welch/Florence + The Machine]


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 04 pages, 088 secrets from Secret Submission Post #293.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 2 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ], [ 1 2 - posted twice ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[anonymouslyyours]

If it was just this pairing I would disagree (it's a comedy show, their dynamic is tricky, it's hard to write Abed, etc.) but over time and fandoms I can't help but notice a disturbing trend. Plus I still haven't gotten over the lack of Tony Stark/James Rhodes which no one has ever adequately explained to me. Fandom ships a crazy amount of white guys with way less chemistry than those two.

[truxillogical]

The Rhodey switch probably didn't help that. Cheadle does nothing for me, but I love the idea of Howard!Rhodey smiling indulgently while fending off a drunken Tony's advances in college (there's an adorable fanart of that somewhere).

But yeah, that's a bit odd. Not like it needs to be someone's exclusive ship, but good gravy, the Avengers movies tend to match everyone with everyone else happily enough. Shame Rhodey doesn't get more action.

[(Anonymous)]

Mmm, I agree on the Howard/Cheadle thing. Howard is so attractive. *___*

[(Anonymous)]

That's sad since Howard is a woman-beating douche in real life and Cheadle is awesome.

[truxillogical]

Yikes. Did not know that.

[streetcake]

I have mixed feelings because part of me thinks it's happened too many times to be a coincidence, but I also don't disbelieve that it could be a coincidence.

It just seems like any white guy/black guy awesome bros dynamic is always the least shipped one in the series, and everyone always says it's because they're "too perfect as friends" even when similar dynamics between two white guys will be shipped in the first episode they're in together.

But like someone said above, a lot of times this happens in comedy shows so maybe it does have something to do with that. Though it doesn't explain the lack of Tony Stark/James Rhodes.

[cherrycoloured.livejournal.com]

I think it has a lot to do with that dynamic being the most common among interracial pairings. A lot of popular slash ships have a slight antagonism to them in canon, if not full out foeyay, and that's more common with two white guys. Scrubs comes to mind for me, as JD/Cox was a very popular ship, but JD/Turk was extremely rare. I wish that there were more interracial rivalries on TV, since it seems like on shows, PoC can be sidekicks or best friends to the main white character, but rarely can they go against them, at least in a shippy way.

[(Anonymous)]

Personally, I don't actively ship Tony/Rhodes for the same reason I don't ship Tony/Pepper: the dynamic was so set by the time they were introduced in the movie that I don't bother to explore it. I like first time pairings and origin stories, and neither of them really supply me with that. :/

(I'm also not a big Tony fan, but I'll ship him with somebody when there's nothing else to read.)

[(Anonymous)]

There was an LJ comm at one point - called the Funvee or something.

[(Anonymous)]

"Plus I still haven't gotten over the lack of Tony Stark/James Rhodes"

Neither have I. They held hands. HELD HANDS. WAT. (Though I agree the switch didn't help. I didn't like the second one)

Same thing for Darwin/Alex in XMFC. TUMMY PAT! WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOUR SLASH GOGGLES PEOPLE. PERHAPS THEY NEED MAINTAINENCE.