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fandomsecrets2013-03-23 03:35 pm
case) wrote in fandomsecrets2013-03-23 03:35 pm
[ SECRET POST #2272 ]
⌈ Secret Post #2272 ⌋
Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.
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Secrets Left to Post: 06 pages, 140 secrets from Secret Submission Post #325.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 1 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ], [ 1 - posted twice ].
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I won't say that you're doing it wrong, but...ouch. I always ship whatever I want; I ship couples I think will work out, especially if they have really interesting dynamics. This has dumped me into sections of fandom that are tiny sometimes, and other times, I end up shipping something that everyone else loves, too.
Ain't no thaaaang. I enjoy being a shipper--the pairing doesn't have to be popular for me to love my ship.
That said, obviously that's why this is a secret. Hope you can just enjoy your pairings because you like them someday, OP. :)
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That being said, you're right. Everyone should just ship or not ship what they like without having to worry about that stuff.
It would be nice to have all that fic and art though...
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(Anonymous) 2013-03-24 03:29 am (UTC)(link)(For my actual preferred pairings - Dean/Bela and Cas/Anna - I'll take what I can get, even though the lack of sheer volume means there are fewer real gems.)
The only time this method falls through is when I dislike a character in the pairing; then I usually can't enjoy it at all. But as long as I like both characters as individuals, them being together doesn't bother me even if I don't ship them.
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For my actual preferred pairings - Dean/Bela and Cas/Anna - I'll take what I can get, even though the lack of sheer volume means there are fewer real gems.
Do you have any recs for those gems? Especially Bela ones? I like the potential in her character, but obviously haven't found much in fandom.
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(Anonymous) 2013-03-25 03:38 am (UTC)(link)My favorite Dean/Bela fic is 'Last Watch of Hero'; author doesn't keep a masterlist, so links to all chapters:
1: http://yesterday4.livejournal.com/157613.html
2: http://yesterday4.livejournal.com/158339.html
3: http://yesterday4.livejournal.com/159088.html
4: http://yesterday4.livejournal.com/160497.html
5: http://yesterday4.livejournal.com/165715.html
6: http://yesterday4.livejournal.com/167588.html
7: http://yesterday4.livejournal.com/184400.html
It's unfinished, but still good enough that I go back to read it again and again.
'Disobliging Ways': http://caffienekitty.livejournal.com/34637.html
Bela crackfic, very good - as this author always is.
'Be Gone With It': http://lazy-daze.livejournal.com/432620.html
Sam/Dean/Bela PWP.
Bellatemple has at least a couple full-cast crackfics that have Bela in a major role; check out 'Kiss Me, Son of God' and 'Siriusly' on her masterlist: http://bellatemple.livejournal.com/193140.html
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For Anna, I highly recommend these three; nothing blatantly shippy between Cas and Anna, but an amazing view of their relationship none the less:
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5688860/1/Omega
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5700937/1/I-Am-But-Mad
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5730223/1/But-Here-Is-All-Aright
''Scuse Me While I Kiss The Sky': http://misachan.dreamwidth.org/146375.html
Cas/Anna in the Croatverse.
Witness: 'http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4678933/1/Witness'
What Anna went through when she started hearing the angels; technically D/C at the end, but the primary focus is on her.
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And as a bonus, how about some Bela/Anna?
'On Sleepless Roads The Sleepless Go': http://scorpiod1.livejournal.com/28063.html
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(Anonymous) 2013-03-26 03:48 am (UTC)(link)no subject
(Anonymous) 2013-03-24 02:42 pm (UTC)(link)For me, shipping against a fandom-wide OTP feels kind of like having a dairy allergy and going to a potluck where it seems as if every single person has brought cream of broccoli soup or lasagna or cheesecake or tiramisu or etc. And I'm just hanging out there with my pot of chili, which I enjoy, but it's a potluck! It would be nice to eat something that I hadn't made myself. And meanwhile everyone else is talking about how delicious the spanakopita is, even if you don't usually like spanakopita you absolutely have to try it; and oh, wow, someone brought fondue, isn't that fun?! And occasionally someone will try a bowl of the chili I brought and compliment me on it, but I know that at the next potluck, that person will be bringing another homemade macaroni and cheese, just as she did this time.
At a certain point, doing my own thing stops being fun--which is all the more noticeable because everyone around me is having the most! fun! ever!--so even though I'll keep watching the show every week, I disengage from the fandom.