[ SECRET POST #2701 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2701 ⌋

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

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02.
[The Almighty Johnsons]


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03.
[X-Men Evolution]


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04.
[The Dreaming Machine]


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05.
[Parasol Protectorate]


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06.
[Benedict Cumberbatch, Tom Hiddleston, Interview with the Vampire]


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07.
[Marvel Disc Wars: The Avengers]


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08.
[Orphan Black]


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09.
[Team Fortress 2]


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10.
[Severus Snape, Gerard Way]


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11.
[Neil Patrick Harris/Ramin Karimloo (Les Misérables/Hedwig and the Angry Inch)]


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12.
[Gakuen babysitters]


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13.
[The Walking Dead Game]


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14.
[Billie Piper, Penny Dreadful]


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15.
[Sherlock]












Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 04 pages, 084 secrets from Secret Submission Post #386.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Have you ever run into a fictional character you liked so much that you couldn't be in the fandom? Like they were so perfect in canon that changing them in fic or art or AU would ruin it?

[mekkio]

Nope.

[(Anonymous)]

No

[(Anonymous)]

It doesn't mean that I can't be in the fandom, it just means that I have incredibly high standards for portraying them in fanworks. Also, there are times when it's a secondary character so I can still enjoy stuff about other characters while just ignoring anything that attempts to portray the side character I like (Supernatural is kinda this way for me with Bobby Singer).

But, yes, I definitely know what you mean.

[(Anonymous)]

Vetinari from Discworld, to an extent

very few writers can pull him off properly

[(Anonymous)]

sa

+ a lot of book characters, actually

with novels and POV characters you get so much more concrete characterization and thought processes than you do from 30 minute tv episodes, which are easier to delve into headcanon for, to fill the missing parts. the book characters have less stuff left to headcanon

[othellia]

I feel this way about most Discworld characters. I love fanart and other stuff, but I can't imagine fic holding up to the quality of the books.

[kallanda_lee]

Hmm, not quite. But there's some things I'm a fan of (even very much so) where I just do not read fic, especially smut.

Like, Star Wars. I loved that since I was 9 and I'm still in love with the whole universe even though I don't actively fangirl so much. I know I ventured into a fanfic archive for it once, and there was basically all the things you could expect of fandom: incest fic, bdsm porn etc - and I just noped out of there. My kink tolerance is generally petty high, but it seems in some fandoms it just rubs me the wrong way. I go like, arrrrgh, my childhood.

It's not so much one character in particular, though. It's more about things I loved innocently as a child, and don't really enjoy depicted in another way.

[silverr]

... I'm this way with HP: I read it to my kids, and even though they're grown now I just .. have no interest in delving.

[morieris]

At first I thought you meant run into them...like in public.

[(Anonymous)]

I've felt that way about entire canons.

[(Anonymous)]

I've had a couple of characters that I was so overly attached to that if I felt a fic wasn't portraying them correctly (which was most of the time) I would shout NO NO NO at the screen and backclick, and only a few ever satisfied my absurdly high standards; but never to the point that I wouldn't even be in the fandom, because for me fandom is more about interacting with other people.

[(Anonymous)]

I can read fic for the characters (and ships) I like, but I can't go into places and discuss them or read meta about them. I hate the idea of people saying unpleasant shit about them so I plug my ears and avoid it.

[(Anonymous)]

Nope.

[elaminator]

...I don't think so?

Though there are some series that the canon is so good that I don't feel much like venturing into the actual fandom because the canon mostly gives me what I want and need. But typically if I like something I don't mind the fandom for it (As long as the material is good), and will probably at least check it out.

[(Anonymous)]

No, but I stay the fuck away from things that portray the character as OOC.

[cbrachyrhynchos]

Um, no, because making fic, art, or AU isn't a requirement for fandom.

[ibbity]

I feel that way about book-version ALL the characters of the original novel Eagle of the Ninth. Not so much the movie because they changed stuff around (though I love the movie too), but I found that I couldn't get into the fandom too much after it exploded when the movie came out, because I was so attached to canon!characterization.

[(Anonymous)]

LOTR and HP. To a certain point, Doctor Who.

For LOTR (especially) and HP, I respect the work too much to even touch it, look at any type of mutation of it, etc. It's just a matter of appreciating the story and characters as they are and not having a desire to see anything else. I usually feel that way about LOTR movies, because I just feel so good after seeing them, and it feels perfect, like anything I do after will just ruin the experience I've had.

I crossed that threshold for DW, but I haven't posted fic for it....yet.

[(Anonymous)]

I think I have the opposite problem. I tend to like just one or two characters from any given show, and either be indifferent to the rest of it, or even actively hate the rest of it. When I love a character, I feel like the canon isn't good enough for them. I want to give them a better fate, a happier ending, or more time in the spotlight. Especially if it's a supporting character; I want to make them the main focus, instead of whoever the ostensible protagonist is.
It sounds weird, and I swear I don't do it on purpose just to be a special snowflake, it's just honestly how I feel. Rather than wanting to avoid tampering with canon, loving a character makes me want to change everything about canon in order to better highlight them and accommodate them. My fics are very AU.
I have a bad case of "I like this character, but not in this context", or "I love this character; I wish they were surrounded by a better show."