[ SECRET POST #2455 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2455 ⌋

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

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 061 secrets from Secret Submission Post #351.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[fscom]

11. http://oi44.tinypic.com/2e3x5cp.jpg

[ill_omened]

Stringer/McNulty otp

[(Anonymous)]

How about McNulty/Bunk?

[(Anonymous)]

Wait, how is this show targeted at men? oO Just because it has a largely male cast? Most shows do.

But yeaaaaah, Avon/Stringer is begging to be shipped.

[kaijinscendre]

"Adult" shows rarely have fanfic. The Walking Dead and Breaking Bad are SUPER popular but there is very little in the way of fanfic.

[(Anonymous)]

I just started watching this. It's really good, but not in the way I anticipated.

I do think that its place has been taken, in a lot of ways, by Breaking Bad. Like, it's kind of weird just starting this now. It almost feels like it's embarrassing, or like I feel guilty about it, because I feel like I should have watched it a lot sooner. I feel like, at this point, most people who haven't watched it are just going to watch Breaking Bad instead.

Also, what Stella said.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't see how The Wire and Breaking Bad have anything in common, quality aside. One is the story of a character, the other one is about a city and American society in general.

[(Anonymous)]

In terms of their content, I agree, they don't have much in common besides dealing with crime.

But as you point out they have a similarity in quality. More than that, I think they have some similarity in style and tone, but especially a similarity in their niche and the way they're marketed - they're both kind of grim and realistic and dark in their tone, and they're both these gritty, adult prestige drama series and they get sold that way. So even if they're not that similar in content, they still get grouped together by the way they're distributed and viewed. And that's more what I was talking about.

[(Anonymous)]

Are you me, OP? I only watched this show recently and I was so disappointed that I could barely find any fics. Need some Avon/Stringer in my life.

[(Anonymous)]

It takes a lot more than groundbreaking quality to get a critical mass of fangirls to write about black men.

Actually, we're still looking for what it DOES take. Not sure it's happened.

[(Anonymous)]

But it has Idris Elba. Who's like the one black guy everyone is attracted to even if they're usually only into white guys.

Secret 11 - The Wire

[transcriptanon]

[Picture is a promotional picture of the TV show "The Wire", showing two pairs of men glaring each other down from their cars.]

I know this show has been over for years, but I'm still sad about the lack of fanfiction. I had hoped that its growing reputation over the years would maybe attract more fans at some point and get a bigger fandom going, but nothing. There are barely any fics, and the few fics that do exist are often short and almost all gen (I like gen, but there are also a lot of shippable people on this show and no fic about these pairings.) It's so frustrating.

In before "write it yourself": Even if I do that, I'd still like to read fics written by other people. And no way a kinkmeme or a new LiveJournal community would attract many writers for a show that's several years old and has almost no fandom.

(Ugly paint secret because I have no photoshop.)

Re: Secret 11 - The Wire

[ginainthekingsroad]

The characters are gang members Avon Barksdale in the hat (played by Wood Harris) and Stringer Bell (played by Idris Elba) and cops Jimmy McNulty (played by Dominic West) and Kima Greggs (played by Sonja Sohn) in the reflected car.

Re: Secret 11 - The Wire

[transcriptanon]

You are a life saver, thank you!

[sabotabby]

I'd read the shit out of it.

[cbrachyrhynchos]

fanfic != fandom.

[(Anonymous)]

There's also no fandom, though. The LJ communities have been almost dead for years and even back in the day they had relatively few discussion posts. Most posts you find there are icon posts. There is almost nothing on tumblr, barely any fanfics anywhere, no active fan forums. Soooo .... no fanfic and no fandom.

[(Anonymous)]

it's not a "fandom" show. If you get out of fandom spaces and into more "general" TV discussion sites - The AV Club, Vulture, Sepinwall, that kind of thing - you'll find tons of discussions of The Wire. Endless discussions of The Wire. So many people talking about The Wire all the time. It's just not "fandom" as this community would know it, but that doesn't mean people don't talk about it.

[insanenoodlyguy]

yeah, most shows when over are not going to see a growth period unless there's some related revival activity.

[astridv]

There's not that much but least the signal-to-noise ratio is much, much higher than normal. Almost all the Wire fic I've read has been really good, or at least of decent quality.

[(Anonymous)]

Yuletide, yo.

[(Anonymous)]

The real "quality" dramas (not going to get into that debate here, but) never have fandoms, in a fanfic sense. The Wire has a large "meta" community among TV critics and the people who read them (something like The AV Club), but it's not the same as, say the Supernatural fandom. If there's a genre element this might change a bit, but for the most part they aren't fanfiction hubs. Honestly, the Breaking Bad secrets here lately have been baffling me.

I know for me I only like to write and read fanfiction for "flawed" canons myself. I don't even want it for shows that I think are really good- I'm too invested in how the canon turns out and what it has to say. But that's just me, I have no idea how it feels for other people.

[(Anonymous)]

Breaking Bad's popularity is on a scale and in demographics that no other 'quality' drama has really done before. It's broken out of the quality genre cage (gilded cage thought it is).