[ SECRET POST #2559 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2559 ⌋

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

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 062 secrets from Secret Submission Post #366.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 2 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 1 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
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Comments

Re: Fandom Entitlement (rant)

[nyxelestia]

Fandom entitlement runs long and deep, and is not even limited to headcanons and fanons vs canon*. Some of the fan-entitlement horror stories from the Harry Potter days go way, way back, and I'm sure older fans (especially the Star Trek ones) have even more to share from the pre-Internet days. And hell, fan entitlement was practically a section in my media class, re: the infamous Kirk/Uhura kiss.

Unfortunately, people have always sucked at distinguishing the finer points of reality from fantasy, and this has been greatly exacerbated by the Internet turning so much of real life into fantasy and giving so much life to fantasy.

Throw in even a smattering of sociopolitical agenda, and you've got a clusterfuck on your hands. Sure, greater homosexual and asexual representation in the media is important, but that doesn't mean an individual creator is making a slight against these communities by making their characters sexual and/or heteronormative.

* = 'fun' story - a few years ago, the Merlin kink meme, which was meant to be for all pairings, was getting overrun by Arthur/Merlin, a negative feedback loop that got worse as other pairing fans would leave the kinkmeme because of this, exacerbating the Merthur presence, etc. The mods - rather heavy handed types, but generally pretty fair and nice - decided that to encourage more participation from other pairings, they would suspend all Arthur/Merlin prompts for one round (which at the time lasted for less than a month). I am and always was a bit of a die-hard Arthur/Merlin shipper myself and even I thought it was a good idea, a great way to get more participation from fandom at large. The Merthur fans? Not so much. The announcement post generated hundreds of hate comments within a day, people saying that the mods' suggestion to 'hold on to those Merthur prompts until the next run' was dystopic and insulting, and people were calling them communists for doing this. People threatened to leave the entire fandom because one of the kinkmeme mods was also the mod of the biggest Arthur/Merlin community in the Merlin fandom at the time. It was one of the most ridiculous fandom blow-ups I'd ever seen.

Re: Fandom Entitlement (rant)

[(Anonymous)]

When people cry "I'm leaving fandom!" Like that, I think "Fine. Go shoot yourself in the foot/eat worms/whatever." If a fandom wasn't enjoyable anymore or you didn't have time for it or there was something else you wanted to do instead, then if course, leave. However, if you were having fun and there were a lot of other fans who like the same ships or whatever, then flipping out and flouncing off because some fans like other things is like saying "I'm going to deny myself the chance to have fun because soneone somewhere is having fun differently." It hurts no one but yourself.