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[ SECRET POST #2690 ]

⌈ Secret Post #2690 ⌋

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[My Little Pony: Equestria Girls movie]

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[Star Trek: The Next Generation/Reginald Barclay]

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[Dark Souls]

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[Call the Midwife]

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[The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim]

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[The Thing. Inception. EverymanHYBRID. Adventure Time]

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Basically stuff you weren't expecting given the content of their work.

Goes for other people who made a thing, too.

I was really surprised that No Game No Life (basically pandering: the anime) has a female director.

Stuff like that doesn't surprise me anymore. After finding out the author of Kodomo no Jikan was a woman, nothing gets to me.

The author of Okane ga nai is a man.

Re: Things you were surprised to find out about an author

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I didn't expect Mentaiko to be as handsome as he is. I don't know, I assumed that he would be a weirdo ugly fat guy or something. I realize how stupid this sounds, porn authors are regular people after all.

Meanwhile, I'm not sure I knew Mentaiko was a dude until just now.

Do you have a pic of what he looks like? I'm curious now.

http://i.imgur.com/cWFuvPr.png

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I've got something similiar to this. One of my favorite illustrators looks kinda like a Japanese version of my dead aunt if the pic on MAL really is her. I was a bit shocked, to say the least.

Jasper Fforde's massive, hypocritical hatred of fanfiction.

That is funny.

What? That. . . how. . . how is he even defining fanfiction so that it makes any sense at all for him to hate it? Is he just digging a hate-moat around the public domain? Is that how it works?

Oh, I guess I should ask for citations, but I am too confused even to be skeptical.

Lots of people seem to think that fanfic is terrible but once a work falls into the public domain then it's perfectly fine, which I can understand from a legal standpoint but these people are often arguing from an artistic merit standpoint. I've tried to understand where they are coming from but I haven't figured it out yet.

Re: Things you were surprised to find out about an author

(Anonymous) - 2014-05-15 23:51 (UTC) - Expand

I know, right! Like holy shit, way to be hilariously hypocritical, dude!

I wonder if it's just his original donut steels he doesn't want people to use, or does he condone the use of his Mr. Rochester and whatever? What a loser ♥
doesn't stop my love for the thursday next books though. i just tune that out of memory ha

What China Mieville looks like. I'm not entirely sure what I was expecting, but I can tell you, the reality wasn't it.

+1

his face is an interesting and attractive one byut in no way what I was expecting. On the other hand, a man who looks like that can pull off the name 'China'.

On the other hand, a man who looks like that can pull off the name 'China'.

Hah, yes.

I have to say I'm still recoiling over that Marion Zimmer Bradley stuff that I found out about through a secret a month or so ago.

what stuff

She apparently knowingly married a pedophile and looked the other way when he went about his business as long as he didn't touch her kids. Which, besides being horrible in itself, causes much bemusement to those of us who read the novel she wrote that basically had as one of its main plot points "Being sexually targeted and abused against your will by an older authority figure is horrible and no one should ever have to go through it." With really in-depth coverage of the kind of behavior and emotional turmoil that come with that kind of experience. So you'd think she, being obviously AWARE of this, would have, idk, not married a pedo or let him go about his business unimpeded in any way till he got arrested.

Edited 2014-05-16 00:48 (UTC)

I don't recall all the details, but it seems that her husband was a serial pedophile. And she knew it, and did nothing.

The thing that stuck with me was the bit from the trial testimony where she admitted that she'd told her husband, "I don't care what you do to other kids, as long as you leave our kids alone." ... (Just typing that sentence outrages me all over again.)

Yeah, this. I don't think I could suddenly hate her books or whatever, but her name used to give me relatively happy feelings, and now I feel gross inside.

Still love the Avalon books though. argh.

It's been a long time since I read the books, but yeah, the name previously had a positive association, and now ... it does not.

I found it out many years ago when I was obsessed with her work (as a young teen); I spent a good long time collecting the various anthologies and books where she had essays because I was interested in the background info she gave. And then I found that out when looking around online. Heart: Broken.

At the same point, her work is a large part of why I am okay with who I am vs. having huge crises of faith around being queer and poly and pagan, etc, so... I try to separate the author from the work in my head, in order to re-read. But finding that out was a huge blow.

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