[ SECRET POST #2101 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2101 ⌋

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

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 040 secrets from Secret Submission Post #300.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 1 2 - not!fandom ], [ 1 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ], [ 1 2 - take it to comments ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Holy fuck, if this secret was an "annoying fandom shit drinking game" I would be dead right now. On one hand I'm like keep doing what you're doing, different strokes, etc. On the other I'm secretly going fffuck yooouu.

It's actually kind of fascinating how many people become obsessed with the Avengers and have this obsession manifest as a desire to throw out 90% of it, turning it into a shitty sitcom where the superheroes are overblown stock characters and murderous villains are nothing more than the annoying, ineffectual neighbor who shows up occasionally to eyerolls and wah-wah-wahhh trumpet music from the other characters.

Fandom.

[deadtree]

isn't it kind of fandom's main goal to do the exact opposite of canon though? The theory I posit is that the crazier the canon the likelier you are to have an abundance of bakery AUs. So I wonder if shows about bakeries have tons of fanfics about the bakers being spies secretly and having insanely kinky knotting sex.

[spicandspan89.livejournal.com]

This is true! The sitcom fandoms I've lurked around in had a ton of fics filled with drama and angst. And zombaclypses. Lots of those.

Would Bridesmaids count as a show about a bakery? I may have to further investigate this theory.

[(Anonymous)]

Fandom tends to bill itself as having the goal of expanding canon (or something like that), in my experience. So sometimes you'll see people say that fandom is so into things that have nothing to do with what happens in the canon because canon... already does those, and they want to see how the characters deal with things canon doesn't or wouldn't show us.

But the things the Avengers is about -- superheroes learning to work together, saving the world, fighting evil and having each others' backs -- we didn't even see that much of! It's a single movie with their first and so far only conflict with an enemy together and some of the characters still hadn't even properly met several of their teammates by the end. The superheroing at the heart of the movie had barely begun. So yeah, "fandom just does the opposite of what canon does" might be onto something.

[wauwy]

Depends where you're reading fanfic, too.

ff.net, shitty as it can be, tends to keep the AU stuff to a dull roar in the background. Ao3, on the other hand, goes hog-wild with it.

[intrigueing]

It's actually kind of fascinating how many people become obsessed with the Avengers and have this obsession manifest as a desire to throw out 90% of it

That actually describes the vast majority of speculative fiction fandoms IME ;D

[(Anonymous)]

Perhaps most fandoms in general, I will concede this point.

[wauwy]

They do this with everything, though. Like... I don't even know what movie the Inception fandom thought they had seen. It definitely wasn't Inception.

I can't even say anything either, because I adore AUs of all kinds in my latest fandom. Can't hate.