[ SECRET POST #2051 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2051 ⌋

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

01.


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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

[agnes_bean]

While I do think that race plays a notable part in a lot of shipping dynamics and probably has an effect on Troy/Abed, I don't think that's as much the case here as it would seem at first glace.

As someone who ships them a LOT and has actually written a bit of fic for them, I feel that A) canon fulfills a lot of my Troy/Abed shipping needs, and B) Yeah, it really, really is hard to write Abed right. And to generally capture the tone of the show while also keeping things well characterized to any extent.

Plus, it's not like there's a pretty white boys slash pairing that's taking the attention -- Troy/Abed is by FAR the biggest (read: only) male slash pairing in the fandom. It just that the fandom skews very het with a bit of slash and femslash on the side, which tends to be true in a lot of sitcom fandoms, for whatever reason (see: Sheldon/Penny in BBT, Leslie/Ben in Parks and Rec).

And while Jeff/Britta and (mostly) Jeff/Annie do get the most fic, there's also a notable amount of het shipping with Troy and Abed (esp. Troy/Britta, Abed/Annie, and also Troy/Abed/Annie).

So, yeah. Not to say there isn't a racial element (for instance, why haven't bromance shippers flocked to the fandom?), but I think there are a lot of other factors at play here, too (part of the answer: bromance shippers tend to flock to genre dramas, not weird little sitcoms).