[ SECRET POST #2470 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2470 ⌋

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

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[Homestuck, Teen Wolf, Supernatural and Sherlock]


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[Supernatural]


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[Watashi ga motenai no wa dou kangaetemo omaera ga warui]


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[Agents of SHIELD]


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[Sleepy Hollow]


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[Fullmetal Alchemist]


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[World of Warcraft]


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09.
[Pacific Rim]


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10.
[Richard III in "The White Queen"]


















Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 044 secrets from Secret Submission Post #353.
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

[(Anonymous)]

Being in favor of it just because it involves an interracial couple is just as creepy, if not more so. Personally, I'm not a shipper, period. I wouldn't go for any of the pairings you named, and it's got nothing to do with anyone's race.

P.S. POC and in a longterm interracial relationship. It's not that I don't cheer on peoples' support for interracial couples, but it's really, really weird that anyone who doesn't support the ship gets the side-eye for being racist.

[(Anonymous)]

I think it has more to do with seeing a pattern emerging. A new show (or movie) is set to come out and secrets appear saying the secret-maker REALLY hopes the show (or movie) will choose the platonic route because there's not enough platonic male/female dynamics represented blah, blah, blah.

Star Trek Reboot (though the vitriol - and it was vitriolic in a lot of spaces - happened AFTER the first movie was released)

Elementary

Sleepy Hallow

Meanwhile, a new show about two (or more) male dudes is set to happen and the slash fic starts being posted before the credits roll on the first episode. Of course I exaggerate, but not by much.

Hannibal, Avengers, Teen Wolf, and the granddaddy of them all, Supernatural.

It's hard not to see the anti-interracial ship going on, and for myself, there's a tinge of anti-women/hetero relationships mixed in there as well.

Like I said, after a while, you start to notice the pattern of comments and opinions.

[(Anonymous)]

I think if you're looking for it, sure, you'll find it. If you look hard enough, you'll imagine something even if it's not there. :/

[(Anonymous)]

People were shipping the leads of Sleepy Hollow before the credits started to roll too!

I personally don't remember people shipping for SPN before it started and people were shipping The Avengers in comics famdom for years before the film came out. Also, you're totally overlooking shows with white leads that people wanted to stay platonic (for example, liz and Jack from 30 Rock).

[(Anonymous)]

I am old enough to have been against the Scully/Mulder ship too.

Some of us would just like to see a male-female professional relationship on screen that doesn't turn romantic. At least I've got Leslie Knope and Ron Swanson to get me through.

[iggy]

This so much.

[(Anonymous)]

I have mixed feelings myself. I'm a black woman in an interracial relationship, and the fact that concept is still so very rare I'm ecstatic to have any sort of black woman/white man representation in the media. It's not like I'm OBLIGATED to ship them, but it does make me feel a bit better knowing I'm represented in any sort of positive manner.

[iggy]

It's not so much that people who don't ship them are all racist. Of course that's not true. I don't ship all of them either.

It's the pattern of VEHEMENCE against these ships, continually, from the same people over and over, that raises eyebrows.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm pretty vehement about a lot of pairings that I see as platonic. Mulder/Scully is a classic case, and ditto any Holmes/Watson pairing. Race has nothing to do with it, I'm just more interested in seeing stories where people can be best friends rather than romantic partners. Maybe the people you're thinking of are not-so-closeted racists... or maybe they're like me.