[ SECRET POST #2084 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2084 ⌋

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

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 04 pages, 094 secrets from Secret Submission Post #298.
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

[(Anonymous)]

Whiny "oppressed" het shipper incoming. Since you already torpedoed any serious and mature discussion of this in the second line of your secret... Bye.

[(Anonymous)]

lol are you fucking serious? Het shipping IS the minority in fandom.

[(Anonymous)]

I helpfully ran some numbers for you, bitter!anon. I went to the AO3 page for Avengers and flipped through the first twenty pages, clicking on all the different pairings for sortings, ignoring threesomes, genderswitch, crossovers, overlaps, and (unfortunately) femslash. Here's what I came up with:

890 Tony Stark/Pepper Potts
26 Loki/Pepper Potts
1173 Clint Barton/Natasha Romanov
124 Darcy Lewis/Loki
472 Jane Foster/Thor
210 Peggy Carter/Steve Rogers
56 Sif/Thor
72 Darcy Lewis/Steve Rogers
150 Bruce Banner/Darcy Lewis
90 Bruce Banner/Betty Ross
79 Steve Rogers/Natasha Romanov
35 Happy Hogan/Pepper Potts
35 Howard Stark/Maria Stark
52 Frigga/Odin
116 Loki/Sigyn
190 Clint Barton/Darcy Lewis
124 Darcy Lewis/Loki
14 Steve Rogers/Maria Hill
115 Bruce Banner/Natasha Romanov
41 Loki/Jane Foster
118 Bucky Barnes/Natasha Romanov
15 Phil Coulson/Darcy Lewis
79 Loki/Natasha Romanov
188 Loki/Sif
35 Howard Stark/Maria Stark
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4499 fics


698 Loki/Tony Stark
3188 Steve Rogers/Tony Stark
1618 Phil Coulson/Clint Barton
97 Loki/Thor
403 Bucky Barnes/Steve Rogers
672 Bruce Banner/Tony Stark
17 Phil Coulson/Nick Fury
246 Bruce Banner/Clint Barton
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6939 fics


In simple terms, this means that for every 1 het fic that has been started, 1.54 slash fics have been started. Sorry, anon—het is hardly the minority, even though it isn't the majority.

What you're actually complaining about is the fact that there aren't many behemoth het pairings although there is definitely more variety; it might seem like you're drowning in slash when your chosen pairing has little support, but trust me, you're really, really not.

(Unlike femslash pairings, which are the sad minority in many fandoms.)

[intrigueing]

.....

how is clint/coulson the second biggest pairing I don't even

[astridv]

I know...
Not just that, I've run into enough gen that turned out to have surprise!Clint/Coulson. And quite a bit of the fic tagged Nat/Clint is really breakup fic that ends in Clint/Coulson instead.

Sadly I can't stand that pairing even in tiniest doses, which turnes AO3 browsing into a kind of obstacle course.

[intrigueing]

I don't mind the pairing, but jesus, the way it ninja-jumps out of nowhere into the most innocent of fics you'd never even for a moment think would contain it...

Me: *reading cute character-study fic about totally non-SHIELD related character that's all about their backstory*

Fic: SUDDENLY, A WILD CLINT/COULSON APPEARS

Me: ...yeahbuhWHAT?

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah seriously that's driving me crazy. I'm trying not to hate Clint/Coulson, but its propensity for popping up in gen starting to make me.

[(Anonymous)]

I feel that way about Steve/Tony, to be honest. :/ I wish people would just LIST THE PAIRINGS, whatever the case, but I've seen so many gen/other pairing stories with some Steve/Tony just hanging out in the background.

[(Anonymous)]

Oh, I kind of love you for looking for those numbers. Nothing beats statistics.

[(Anonymous)]

Stats!anon is happy to be of service. :)

[oparu]

Yay stats!! Hugs for poor ignored femslash....