I know a secret

[scarfman]

Through my flist I discovered fandomsecrets. It's a community for anonymous postings of graphics that anonymously confess what you can't bring yourself to tell your fandom. I'm addicted. I'd love to contribute, but I don't keep any secrets. (I draw fanfiction cartoons for grownups I only circulate privately, but I don't keep secret that I do it.)

So here's a composite sampling of things people post there; in other words, I'm making up representative samples. Maybe you'll enjoy it too.

Everyone in this fandom 'ships these two characters. I don't know why, the actors have no chemistry and/or no/little common screentime. I 'ship these other two characters. If anyone in my fandom found out I'd be run off.

Why do there have to be 'ship wars? Can't we all just get along?

I started to do this rp/'ship/fandom/fic with you because it was fun then. It's actually crap, but I can't tell you because you'd probably never speak to me again.

I'd hit that [pictured character/actor].

I 'ship it like the burning of a thousand suns [pictured two or three characters/actors, not always from the same work or even medium]. [Optional: specify which character is "on top".]

Castiel the angel on Supernatural gave me back my faith.

I used to think real people fic was creepy. I still think it's creepy, but these two drive me to write it.

I 'ship it even though it's incest.

I 'ship it even though it's pedo.

I 'ship it even though it's incestuous pedo.

I 'ship it because it's incest/pedo/incestuous pedo.

I couldn't keep 'shipping it when it became canon.

I just want to hold him/her [pictured character] and tell him/her everything's going to be all right. Secret because wtf self, psycho serial killer would gut me and rape the wound.

This character/work/fandom gets me through my mental health issues better than therapy or meds ever did.

This character/work/fandom makes my mental health issues worse, and I don't care.

These two cartoon characters were my first slash when I was six.

This fandom treats newbies like lepers and runs them off.

If you [don't treat my character/fandom the way I think it ought to be treated], I judge you.

I dread the influx of fangirls into my fandom when the revival in progress comes out.

I dread the season finale because it'll be crap.

When this character had the moment pictured, I orgasmed.

When I'm having sex with my bf/gf I can't orgasm unless I imagine s/he's Rorschach/Edmund/some anime character/some game character/etc. Secret because s/he'd probably leave me. And the character is the same gender as me, and I'm straight!

I 'ship members of my forum.

Stephen Fry is so cool.

Comments

[fisher-queen.livejournal.com]

I posted a secret about your Lancelot there once! I wonder if I could find it in the archives...

[elliptic-eye.livejournal.com]

I trust you're also aware of who_secrets?

[scarfman]

No! Thanks.

[stoplookingup.livejournal.com]

No need to look at fandom secrets ever again. I think you've about covered it.

[immelmanturn.livejournal.com]

The Stephen Fry faction are clearly misguided- that's not any kind of secret.

[kaffy_r]

Yesssss!!! Stephen Fry is cool! And so is celery!!!

Ahem. The celery is a LINDA thing.

[almosee.livejournal.com]

"I 'ship members of my forum"

That one cracks me the hell up, mainly because it's one I've never seen.

You missed "I don't like this character, but I'm scared people on my flist won't like me anymore if I admit it". That one seems to come up all the time on who_secrets

[scarfman]

I did miss that one. But then, that's sort of like forgetting to mention the color of the sky.

[fourzoas.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the taxonomy; I think you've got it all covered!

[omorka.livejournal.com]

You forgot "You're the [X character] to my [Y character]" and "OMG, does liking [Z anthropomorphic non-human character] make me a furry?" But yeah, that just about covers it.

[rose-cat.livejournal.com]

So that's what fandomsecrets is!

What the heck is the big deal, anyway? I'd admit to about half of that stuff on my LJ. As for the rest, why anybody would care... What's the point if it's anonymous anyway?

And Stephen Fry is cool.