[ SECRET POST #2413 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2413 ⌋

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Comments

What fandoms am I hanging out in?

[nyxelestia]

Maybe I'm hanging out in the wrong part of fandom, but how much does this come up in Star Trek fic? I have only seen a few instances of this. Granted that, I'm only in the AOS part of Star Trek fandom, with dabblings in Voyager, so is this a TOS thing...?

Actually, now that I think about it, less than a third of the slashfics I read ever bring up homophobia, a number which drops even further down when it's set in a non-'real'/modern universe (Star Trek, Merlin, Harry Potter, etc). Even accounting for things like fluff and porn that don't connect to the universes' social situation at all and focus only on the couple/group, my impression has been that when homophobia comes up, it comes up hard, but otherwise fanfics just don't bother, or it's only mentioned in passing in the background. All of these things are usually pretty well tagged and warned for.

But judging by what other people are saying, I am apparently hanging out in a very bizarre intersection of fandom where homophobia doesn't come up in even half the fics I read. Is it because people are not counting fluff and porn? o.O This is doubly weird to me because in Steve/Tony fandom, I actually seek out fanfics where they have to deal with homophobia (especially if there is any form of social or mass media involved to do it).

That said, homophobia in Star Trek fic does tend to throw me off quite a bit whenever it does happen, and a lot of the time throws me out altogether (I think I've seen like one example where the homophobia made sense, in that the homophobic character had been raised on a planet that was expressly colonized by a conservative religion). Most of the time, the only issues I see are people objecting to Kirk and Spock's somewhat-interspecies relationship, and even then the focus usually ends up on Spock being 'mixed race' more than anything else.