[ SECRET POST #2303 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2303 ⌋

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

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 048 secrets from Secret Submission Post #329.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 2 - not!secrets ], [ 1 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Comments

Re: Bizarrely Popular fandoms/pairings?

[(Anonymous)]

I went into the Les Mis fandom expecting it to be all Valjean/Javert, all the time.

I was surprised to discover that the most popular pairing was Enjolras/Grantaire.

idk i just find it really baffling. maybe it's because they're both played by cute young actors in the film???

Re: Bizarrely Popular fandoms/pairings?

[(Anonymous)]

yep the actors are 100% of it.

Well actually, probably 90% of it. The other 10% is made up of 1) George Blagden shipping it; 2) Grantaire being obsessed with Enjorlas in canon to the point that the ship sails itself.

Re: Bizarrely Popular fandoms/pairings?

[ariakas]

You've got to remember that both of those roles are played by actors in their mid-late 40s, and the average age of fandom skews very young. My tastes have broadened a bit now, but back when I was in my late teens and early 20s those guys would have been older than my dad and I wouldn't have given them a second glance.

Same shit happens in my fandom. The entire series is basically about the relationship between two dudes, one in his thirties and one in his fifties, with slash material to the max if one is looking for it, but nobody wants grandpa so the most popular ship is the thirty something dude with some other dude shares all of like three lines with.

Re: Bizarrely Popular fandoms/pairings?

[(Anonymous)]

what fandom, out of curiosity?

Re: Bizarrely Popular fandoms/pairings?

[ariakas]

CoD: Modern Warfare. The most popular pairing by far is Ghost/Soap (or Soap/Ghost) but Ghost only shows up for (part of) the second game and scarcely interacts with Soap, whereas the whole trilogy hinges around Soap's relationship with Price (the older guy). Yet, Price/Soap is scarcely extant. If Price is in a slash fic, it's almost always set when he was younger.

Fangirls gon' shallow. I really don't blame 18-year-olds for not wanting to write fic about someone definitely old enough to be their father and possibly their grandfather, though. Things look different when you're my age, but when I was a teenager 40- and 50- something year old men might as well have been corpses for all the sex appeal they held for me. I understand the phenomenon completely (as much as it irks my bff, a queer dude who likes older guys and wonders where all the Price fic/art is at).