[ SECRET POST #2697 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2697 ⌋

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

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02.
[Fringe]


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03.
[Tales of series]


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04.
[Revenge]


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05.
[Starsky & Hutch]


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06.
[Once Upon a Time]


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07.
[Rozen Maiden]


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08.
[Beyoncé]


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11. nf










Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 012 secrets from Secret Submission Post #385.
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

[fscom]

03. http://i.imgur.com/jaPuzQL.png
[Tales of series]

[(Anonymous)]

You just reminded me that I really hate Tales of Legendia.

[(Anonymous)]

God, I really love the Tales games, but the Abyss fandom was far and away the most repugnant fandom I have ever attempted to take part in. It doesn't shock me if there's still patches of them lingering around.

[(Anonymous)]

Ooooh, can I hear why?

[cloud_riven]

Probably because the tumblr fandom for the game doesn't generally head out much. Everything is new and terrible and shiny, so sticking them into F!S would be like throwing them in a vat of oil (even though we're tame). /generalize /:U

Not really related, but I fucking love Tales games. They're so shitty, but so fun to play. Abyss is probably my favourite for having the most detail into how nonsensical rpg shit worked, as well as the most characters I enjoy and remember (and not remember for hating constantly). I don't jive well with the fandom though ofc.

[forgottenjester]

I loved Abyss. Still kinda a bs ending though.

[(Anonymous)]

Really? I remember Abyss as being the Tales game where I hated every cast member. They didn't seem badly written so much as they grated on my nerves too much to be worth it. Tales games tend to have shitty plot with good characters (if sometimes shallow) and usually fun gameplay, they aren't really ~deep~ or anything.

[cloud_riven]

Yep. I was under the impression it was one of the more popular ones too. Eternia on the psp is a close second for me.

I look at the cast as cookie cutter shapes that can make or grate the experience, and the stories as ignorable at best, so you're pretty much on the mark there.

[(Anonymous)]

I feel you. Tales gameplay is really fun for me, but I think they're mediocre at best for story, even if I end up liking a game. The reason I bought Symphonia HD recently is because the GC one played like comfort food to me when it came out. I keep quiet about it in general JRPG fandom, since most people I know keep jumping ship to Tales Of games as their choice franchise and complaining about how far all the other ones have fallen, or how terrible WRPGs are, etc. Abyss also still seems like the favorite, even with Vesperia around.

The skit system's also neat, even if I hate the characters in a game. I was happy to see it pop up in some other things recently.

[cloud_riven]

Franchise defensiveness is why I don't mesh well. I know fans of other properties do it too, but Tales fanbase has a weird japanophile-like air to it at times when you try to talk about it as a game.

Skits are like brief fic snippets of fic for me, so they were usually a treat.

[kippi]

I haven't noticed that? Some of them are very... yeah regarding japan though, and a bit (a lot) over obsessed, but not all like TALES IS THE ONLY GOOD THING EVER. Maybe I just hang out with decent people? I've noticed a whole fuckton of the fandom is super fragile and sensitive at times, but I tend to draw my perspectives more from tumblr which leans that way anyhow.

ayrt

[(Anonymous)]

Yep. I think the weirdest part was that the people I knew never even tried other franchises before stopping at Tales, but they were still complaining. They hadn't even tried Persona, which seemed like the perfect obsession for the loud minority. I'm sure the sane fans play a ton of different things.

Same!

[forgottenjester]

What is this? I must know more about it.

[(Anonymous)]

It's a confessions blog for Tales. It's sort of like a mini fandomsecrets for a specific fandom, except the mod makes all the images. I think someone should start a confession blog for something where submitters make their own confession images, it's the best part of fandom secrets.

[forgottenjester]

Now I wanna spam that blog with a bunch of stupid secrets...

I could talk about what I found in the lighthouse.

da

[(Anonymous)]

What DID you find in the lighthouse?

Re: da

[forgottenjester]

Well if you get to the 70th floor you get to face Sephiroth. Also! Right when you get in you meet Luke as an Easter Egg alluding to the next game that was gonna come out. On the 10th floor your controller inverts forever. On the 100th floor, if you have a really old Virtual Boy, you can attach it using a special cord and get sucked into the game.

Man... it's so cool. Please tell me other people entered the lighthouse and learned of its unfathomable treasures.

da

[(Anonymous)]

This is great! I bet you could really get people going if you switched the Virtual Boy thing for that Gamecube GBA attachment and had it so the game gave you unlimited items, or something.

What else... I had to think a sec about what the newest Tales game was (Xillia 2?), because you could also make up an encounter with a character from Zestria. One hasn't been distributed yet and the other wasn't announced too long ago. Or an easter egg about the PS3 version of Vesperia finally come out outside of Japan. THE SKY'S YOUR LIMIT.

sa

[(Anonymous)]

*coming out

Re: da

[forgottenjester]

Oh yeah! I forgot about the unlimited item thing! That was fun. Way faster than using Zelos.

NO! THERE IS NO LIMIT IN THE LIGHTHOUSE!

[(Anonymous)]

Confessions blogs are pretty much the scourge of fandom, so I can see why the blog gets so much hate based on just that alone.

[diet_poison]

I'm curious as to how f!s doesn't fall into that category. Is it just the results of it being on tumblr (combination of user interface + general userbase)? Or are you intending to put f!s in that group too?

[iaijutsu]

Not the anon above, but one thing I saw with confessions blogs in my fandoms (I don't Tales, so idk about the one in the secret specifically) was that there didn't seem to be any kind of filter like f!s has with the not secrets at the bottom. So some confessions I'd just be nodding like "yeah, sounds legit" but then once there was one that was literally "Is it just me, or is so-and-so's hat getting bigger in every game?" and I'd be like....what?

[(Anonymous)]

The main complaints fandom has is that THE CONFESSION BLOG IS FULL OF AND RUN BY MEANIE POOPOO HEADS and THE CONFESSIONS ARE ONLY HERE TO TEAR US APART BECAUSE THEY'RE MEAN and SOMEONE INSULTED MY FAVORITE GAME WAH and HOW DARE YOU SAY MY FAVORITE CHARACTER'S FACE LOOKS LIKE A BUTT. If the blog was all shit like "I want Leon Magnus to RUN" " yuri lowell has a big butt" "i think spada's hat is too small" the fandom wouldn't be bitching.

[iaijutsu]

Huh. In that case I GOT NOTHIN', my main gripe about confessions blogs is "do you people know what a confession is." \o_O/