[ SECRET POST #2066 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2066 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I'm genuinely sorry for assuming you were that person. They raised my hackles by implying racism was purely a problem for slashers, rather than fandom and the world as a whole. And for that reason, I was being overly vindictive. Sorry. :(

On your other note, though, Sherlock is a HUGE fandom. In a large fandom like that, any given pairing will likely be more prevalant, because of sheer size alone. For example, I've read a bunch of Draco Malfoy/Blaise Zabini in Harry Potter, which is also an interracial couple, though obviously not a bigwig in the fandom (at least partially because we didn't even know if Blaise was male or female for a while, he was mentioned so briefly). Draco/Blaise probably has more fics than Travis/Wes does, simply because Harry Potter fandom is so large. Relative to their individual fandoms, however, the pairings I've listed are somewhere at the top of their food-chains.

I mean, you can make the case, perhaps, that the fandoms are not that big BECAUSE some of the most important ships involve POCs, but I don't know. There are definitely other factors that go beyond writing all of fandom being off as racist. There are gray-zones. I'm putting forward that we'd see more pairings beyond white character/white character if non-white characters were given more standing in their original canons as a whole. With Twilight, for example, Bella/Jacob's one of the two main pairings, actually more popular than Edward/Jacob (tbh, I don't know, as I've never looked at that fandom's archives), and it's also interracial.