[ SECRET POST #2543 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2543 ⌋

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

01.
[Fangirl]


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02.
[Anne Neville, The White Queen]

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03.
[Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellan]


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04.
[Merlin]


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05.
[Elementary]


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06.
[Whitechapel]


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07.
[Grey's Anatomy]

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08.
(Legend of Korra)


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09.
[Papa Pear Saga + Doctor Who]


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10.
[Godfrey Gao as Magnus Bane in "The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones"]


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11.
[Kwon Yuri, Tiffany Hwang and Jessica Jung of Girls' Generation]


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12.
[Les Miserables/Anton Zetterholm/Rob Houchen]


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01pages, 015 secrets from Secret Submission Post #363.
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

[logicbutton]

Not to mention that every character who was already familiar with fandom a) was also in that fandom; b) shipped the Harry/Draco analogue, of all things; and c) had read (and loved) her WIP fic! As I said below, at least they didn't all have the same relationship with fandom, but apparently they all had the same interests within it? It might have been interesting for Wren at least to ship something else, or get into another fandom in college and try to get Cath into it too, and for something like that to be part of the conflict between them.

[littlestbirds]

I was thinking of reading this book, but that really disappoints me! I have come across a few fangirls over the years and none of them shared my interests. The closest I've come to meeting someone in the same fandom as me was reading Harry/Draco fic over a stranger's shoulder on the bus.

[(Anonymous)]

Finding people in RL that fandom at all is rare (at least for me), but yeah the two people I have met were both H/D shippers. But it was very much in passing and we didn't become friends because of it. It is more common for it to happen the other way.

You met online and then met in real life. I found out one of my fandom friends lives very close to where I went to high school... a year after I moved 8 hours away.

[(Anonymous)]

I haven't read the book yet, so I'm not completely understanding your comment. It might make more sense to me after I've read it. But I think what you're saying is that it would have been nice if she was friends with people who fandom more than one thing and not just Harry/Draco?

Okay, if that is what you are saying...as a Harry/Draco shipper I was just going to say that many of us do ship more than one fandom, but then there are people like me. Who only ship Harry/Draco and pretty much don't touch anything else at all. (There are other fandoms I'm interested in, but they don't really have much of a fan base. Plus there is just so much going on in H/D fandom that you don't have much time for anything else. Like right now, I'm cutting down on the H/D I'm writing so that I can have time to write some of the femeslash and het pairings I like.)

Because of this, I pretty much only met other Harry/Draco shippers. Even if they ship other things, I only really hear about the Harry/Draco. And if she (book character) wrote one of the "classics" then it is a pretty sure bet that almost every Harry/Draco shipper has read the classics.

When we meet someone knew, we say, "Hey, have you read 'the classics'" and then point them to the list. It is not odd at all for us to fall back into talking about the classics and how much we love them. I can see the author of those particular stories running into fans all of the time.

And I've never met anyone who would say that didn't like my writing...whether they did or not. And the two people I've met in RL were both Harry/Draco shippers. Other than that, I've never met someone in real life that is a part of any fandom.

on your very last comment I can so see someone getting burned out by Harry/Draco and needing to let go. That would have been a great plot point...had she used it. Plus, it probably happened to her as far as I know she isn't still in H/D fandom. That is the way it has sounded to me anyway.

Though the real reason she probably did that is: didn't she have to make up a whole world for her book? Maybe she didn't want to do that twice?

[(Anonymous)]

sorry:

tl;dr

I haven't read the book yet, but from everyone's comments it sounds like my life.

[crunchysunrises]

I admit, I haven't read the book either but it seems that, according to the other comments, everyone she met who was involved in fandom had the exact same pairing and exact same level of involvement in fandom as the main character.

That seems unlikely, especially to someone like me who has only read a couple of H/D fics in passing, has probably missed most of the pairing's "classics", and has met several people in RL who did fandom but, while we casually shared some fandoms and pairings, we certainly didn't all have the same fandoms or reading preferences.

So while I can certainly accept the main character's character design, I'd probably call foul on everyone sharing her exact same interests and fic preferences. (And, by extension, they wouldn't all have read her fic.)

[(Anonymous)]

I think it depends on when the book is set. Because there was a time when I was tripping over harry potter fans in real life left and right. And those that were shippers tended to ship the 'big ships' which at the time Harry/Draco was one.