[ SECRET POST #232 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #232 ⌋

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

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Notes:

... guys, writing "this is not a secret" on your uh, secrets is probably not a good idea, you know?

Have some more random bite links! Devilbats. ♥

Secrets Left to Post: 07 pages, 169 secrets from Secret Submission Post #034.
Secrets Not Posted: 0 broken links, [ 1 2 3 4 5 ] not!secrets, 0 not!fandom, [ 1 ] repeat, [ 1 ] too big.
Next Secret Post: Tomorrow, Sunday, August 26th, 2007.
Current Secret Submission Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

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[powercorrupts.livejournal.com]

Why does everyone assume that people have to ship het or slash? Can't people ship het ships that they like and slash ships that they like? I mean, you assume that you can, but then you say things that imply that you think that anyone who bashes yaoi fanbrats doesn't ever ship slash.

I'm so confused by the labelling. If you ship any slash, are you a slash shipper? If you ship het most vocally, are you a het shipper? (Because my boyfriend seems to group by the first one - one slash ship and a million het ships makes you a slash shipper, but if the issue is vocal shippers, you would think it would be tied more to what a person is loudest about.)

Or is this just one of those labels of convenience, wherein you can conveniently hate a large group of people who might or might not actually fit into the same actual group (while getting to exclude yourself from either because it makes you feel better)? Because that's how it always sounds to me. And how everyone who says it often then tries to play it up with "but not me, because I like ships equally. =D"

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[powercorrupts.livejournal.com]

Also, uh... het ships typically do have a better chance of becoming canon? On average? I don't get how that's being full of yourself to say that. It's true. If you take a non-bl series that has two ships of equal potential, one m/f and one m/m, the het one has a much better chance of becoming canon.

More canon = more canon. And that's all, imo. I've seen awful canon pairings that have no chemistry, no dynamics, and just don't go anywhere, while there were non-canon pairings that could have had a shitton more potential. But they weren't canon. It didn't mean that you couldn't write/draw them just as well as the canon one, or better, it meant that they weren't canon.

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[rmarques.livejournal.com]

Well... I'll go on a limbo here, and say that the secret maker probably means some of the people at antiyaoi. So, I THINK (and someone feel free to smack if I am wrong), the secret maker only means the people that only ship het, and then go around and bitch about mxm/fxf ships and those that endorse them.

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[powercorrupts.livejournal.com]

Nothing in their secret made it clear to me that they weren't just bashing on het shippers. "I hate het shippers" is not the way to say you hate homophobic and batshit het shippers. It is, however, the way to piss off everyone who has ever argued in favour of a het ship. The secret started off by grouping people into two overgeneralizations, and ended with stating that the OP was immune to either grouping.

If they'd ranted about a specific incident with batshit het shippers, I'd give them the benefit of the doubt, but as it is, the secret just reads to me like someone with a chip on their shoulder and a superiority complex.

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[rmarques.livejournal.com]

Hey, I agree that the secret wasn't exacly the best worded ever. I'm just trying to think of what the OP may have meant.(Why do I see wank coming?)

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[powercorrupts.livejournal.com]

Poorly worded overgeneralizations? Declarations of hate? Statements of oppression? Wank? NEVAR! xD (Just add water)

On the positive side, at least it's not wank about secrets about fanart in icons. That was getting old.

I agree that the OP probably didn't mean things the way they said them. But you can't say things like that and not expect to offend or irritate some number of people.

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[rmarques.livejournal.com]

It's like, the perfect recepy for instant wank :3

Or the strikethrough. That one got old the minute it was brought up for the second time.

And I agree.