[ SECRET POST #2169 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2169 ⌋

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

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I'm scratching my head at this because I figured that slash was the norm in fanfics, and that hetro pairings, were actually kinda rare.

Do people still write het based fanfic anymore? That still exists?

Weird. o_O

[altumcor]

I don't know anymore. Fanfiction and I had a falling out and we're both happier not being in each other's presence.

As far as I know, it just depends on the fandom.

[(Anonymous)]

If you don't mind an anon asking. What happened?

[altumcor]

Hm? Nothing really, I just got sick and tired of it. Original Fiction, both online and published, just filled the void much more cleanly and happily. There's very little to no fandom, but I'm more content that way. Still, it would be great if there were fandoms, but ah well.

EDIT; And things like this, like ship-wars, het-versus-slash-versus-femmeslash... also another reason why I tend to keep away from fanfiction.

[(Anonymous)]

You and I are cut from the same cloth.

I've been battling having dropped out of fandom for a while now. I feel guilty that I don't feel guilty. Fandoms and fanfic weren't giving me what I wanted any more and I've fought and fought against writing original stuff until I can't avoid it any longer.

I love writing, fanfiction doesn't do it for me anymore. So I've decided to follow my impulse and writing original fiction and see where it takes me.

Already, I'm much happier for it.

[altumcor]

Oh man, I've embraced it!

The day I stopped actively participating in fandom was the day I stopped getting a lot of headaches. It just wasn't that fun anymore. It wasn't because I disagree with some opinions, be it mainstream or not, but the amount of flack for being one part of the fandom or the other just really got me involved in ways that didn't make it a fun hobby. It became more like frequent debating.

Now I just read a lot of independently published stuff and online fiction that because the authors, writers, and artists are so much closer to the fanbase that I feel people are more in harmony there. It sounds very, uhm, "hispter-ish" of me, for lack of a better word, but because there's few of us and because we generally just like the stories and characters for what they are, I feel we mesh well that way.

I'm not going to say that I'll never ever read fanfiction. There's a couple of established, big name series now that I've gotten into which has a big enough fandom for a decent amount of fanfiction to be written. But the appeal's brief, and I quickly retreat back into my corners of the internet.

Here's to us lone wolves.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah. I've all but let my old LiveJournal account go and I've started a new one (like five minutes ago!) that is just me and will hold my writing. No friends, no fandom, no pressure.

I still like to read fanfiction as well but I'm simply not as invested in fandoms as I used to be. I found that I'm a lot calmer now. I don't get all upset about shit any more.

*tinks a glass with you*

[cbrachyrhynchos]

We should start a book club for people who don't do fanfic.

[altumcor]

Yep. I'm up for that idea. Where do I sign up?

[(Anonymous)]

It depends on where you hang around. If you only hang out in fandoms like HIMYM, TBBT, The Hunger Games, The Mentalist and Castle then you would probably say that you see a lot of het (though all of those fandoms do have at least a small slash following, the majority has been het in my experience). If you hang out in, say, the Sherlock, Supernatural, Teen Wolf etc fandoms then you would probably be like "where's all the het?"

[(Anonymous)]

And those three fandoms dominate AO3, so it's particularly prominent there.

[diet_poison]

Is this a serious question?

Slash and het are both very, very popular. Slash maybe a little more so but not NEARLY enough to overwhelm the het. Femmeslash is less popular, but still easy to find.

[(Anonymous)]

Like the poster above me, I'm wondering if this actually is a serious question, but if it is, then....yes, there is a lot of major het fandoms out there.

Just to add to those already mentioned...

Once Upon a Time
Gossip Girl
Vampire Diaries
Grey's Anatomy
NCIS
Harry Potter
Doctor Who
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Angel
X-Files
Stargate SG-1
Fringe
Bones
Charmed
Farscape

...and so forth.

[(Anonymous)]

Uh in case you're serious, my roommate writes Clint/Natasha fic and there's a huge following for that. So yeah, het fic is still written.

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

Depends on the fandom, and the pairing. For instance:

Het is a bit of a rare animal in my current fandom, SPN, but I attribute that to the fact that the series really has only two stable characters, both of whom are hot males. There's also the semi-regular third guy who has given shippers who don't like incest an option that isn't RPF. There's also issues that the show has never been great at portraying women - at least women who are romantic options (the women in non-romantic roles tend to be kick-ass gals). Suffice to say, it's a fandom that you should expect to be 90% slash.

Meanwhile, Harry Potter. Yes, it has it's fair share opf slash, but go into the right areas, and the right pairings, the het is still going strong. (I read Harry/Hermione. Also, I get the impression Harry/Ginny and Ron/Hermione are going as strong as ever too.)
Still, back when I first got into HP (between the release of GoF and OotP), I resided down the slash end of the fandom, and if it wasn't for poking about some of the big fandom archives a bit and hearing about the big ship wars, I probably wouldn't have seen anything from the het end of the fandom.

So I'd say that if you really think het doesn't exist, then it's an issue of what fandom, and where in it you are residing.