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fandomsecrets2012-10-19 06:53 pm
case) wrote in fandomsecrets2012-10-19 06:53 pm
[ SECRET POST #2117 ]
⌈ Secret Post #2117 ⌋
Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.
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[Slenderman/Cthulu]
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07. http://i.imgur.com/AAVIZ.jpg
[Bo Sinclair / House of Wax (2005); image contains possibly-triggery scars, no self-harm stuff in the text though]
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[Wil Wheaton]
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[Guardians of the Galaxy]
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[The King of Fighters: KYO manga and game]
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[ ----- SPOILERY SECRETS AHEAD ----- ]
14. [SPOILERS for Star Trek Voyager: The Eternal Tide]
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15. [SPOILERS for Damages]
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16. [SPOILERS for Frankenweenie]
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17. [SPOILERS for Big Brother 14]
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18. [SPOILERS for Resident Evil 6]
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[ ----- TRIGGERY SECRETS AHEAD ----- ]
19. [WARNING for suicide]
[The Walking Dead]
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20. [WARNING for incest]
[A Night at the Roxbury]
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21. [WARNING for child abuse]
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Notes:
Secrets Left to Post: 00 pages, 000 secrets from Secret Submission Post #302.
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.
OK, SO THIS STARTED AS A SHORT REPLY, AND TURNED INTO A LOVE LETTER TO FANDOM
See, Harry Potter was my first actual FANDOM that I was involved in. It through HP that I discovered that fanfiction even existed. And all I could find at the beginning was horrible second-person "You Are Having an Arranged Marriage to Draco Malfoy" shit. Because I didn't even know fanfic was enough of a thing to have its own website. And one day, I happened across something labeled "SLASH! if you don't know what it is don't read it," so of course I had to. And thus I read my first Harry/Draco fic.
So yeah, I accidentally discovered slash when I was in...7th (maybe 8th?) grade, and Harry/Draco was the only think I read at first. When I found out other pairings existed, I was a little squicked out, and then- what?! SNARRY?! My first reaction was a resounding "EURGHHH!!"
BUT THEN I READ ONE.
And I realized how much time I'd been wasting with this prettyboy/prettyboy Harry/Draco stuff when there was something SO MUCH BETTER! I discovered my first kinks through Snarry. I mean, student/teacher? check. Massive age difference? check. (especially Snape with almost-legal-but-not-quite Harry) Not-so-pretty older guy with an adorably sexy younger guy? CHECK OMG. (I realize now that this basically all boils down to age difference kink, lol) And because of Snarry, I discovered whole lj communities exclusively devoted to specific pairings or situations, and that basically, whatever I wanted to read, chances were someone had written it.
I didn't even know that what I had been reading wasn't what I really liked, because I liked it more than anything ELSE I had read before. So Snarry kind of....opened my eyes to something that had been missing in my life. Not just slash fanfiction or gay porn or whatever, but fandom. I found out that I wasn't alone, and that there were people I could talk to other than the kids I went to school with, who always made fun of me for reading too much and loving HP as much as I did (which was probably a little TOO much, tbh). At any rate, this has probably reached essay-length by now, so I'll cut off my rambling here.
TL;DR I LOVE SNARRY; IT OPENED THE DOOR INTO FANDOM FOR ME.