[ 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

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

I get this feeling the OP thinks "Good Fans" shouldn't have OTPs and centre their fannish enjoyment around their OTP.

Just speaking of my own POV:

When I get into a fandom, I either go looking for a pairing to settle on, or I was drawn into the fandom by the prospect of a pairing. Usually it's a slash pairing too, because I happen to be a slasher - someone who favours male/male stories.

My OTPs are the spice that makes my fandom experience a bit brighter. They are not absolutely everything about Fandom for me, but if I didn't have pairings, I wouldn't be in any given fandom. I wouldn't be in The Hobbit if I hadn't thought Bagginshield looked interesting. So many of my other fandoms are exactly the same story: DBZ-Vegeta/Bulma, DBZ slash-Goku/Vegeta, HP-Harry/Draco, LotR-Aragorn/Boromir, FF7-Sephiroth/Cloud, SPN-Destiel, Hobbit-Bagginshield.

Admitedly, those are just the pairings that drew me into those fandoms. Many of them I found other pairings after, some of those starter pairings I left behind, some I didn't.

So the implication I see in the secret that concentrating on one's OTP somehow is a bad way to be a fan... feels like the OP is the one who is a bad fan. Having an OTP is not bad. Having one's OTP be the central reason one loves Fandom is not bad either.

It only gets to be bad when someone is all "You disagree with my OTP? You should die horribly!".


TL;DR - The OP comes across to me like they are saying concentrating on an OTP is bad. I disagree.

(I didn't even bring up the slash aspect. I also get an undercurrent of "Slash OTPs are bad!", which makes me side-eye hard.)

[(Anonymous)]

This makes me feel so much better about my fandom habits as of late. The only new fandom I've gotten into without the promise of a pairing was The Hobbit, and that was because I grew up on Tolkien.

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

Now that I consider how I got into Baldur's Gate fandom (my first online fandom), I now believe there is only one fandom I got into without the direct prompting of a pairing - Transformers. BG2 had the promise of romance plots that I wanted to go see how people had written. TF is much what you said, I knew it from my childhood, when I used to watch the G1 cartoons, and investigated the fandom after the live-action movies first started coming out.

LotR was a childhood favourite of mine as well, but I didn't get into fanfic fandom until I found a trigger pairing. Up until then, I just sat back and enjoyed the movies for bringing the books to life.

I just don't like the implication that fangirling a pairing is a bad way of being a fan. You can be a fangirl and also appreciate canon for what it is, even if your OTP runs against a canon pairing.