[ SECRET POST #2735 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2735 ⌋

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

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 061 secrets from Secret Submission Post #391.
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

[likeadeuce]

What is this fandom? I remember a YA SF novel with a similar title and themes -- is this an anime adaptation or something unrelated?

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, it must be an adaptation because I have the book (it's one of my all-time) favorites, and there are no characters with those names.

I also always thought the book supported the Prime Directive. It's about how it wouldn't always work perfectly and it's important to adapt when mistakes happen, but that it's still the best option... the book's definitely not saying it's "bullshit."

SA

[(Anonymous)]

Ugh, I don't know why I put the close parentheses in the wrong place. It should be after "favorites," obviously.

[likeadeuce]

That does seem to be art that refers to the novel --

I do think the book was pro-Prime Directive, but I took the secret to mean that OP disagreed with the thesis of the book & thought that the visitors should have interfered more? Or that they were mad the couple didn't get together?

I don't remember the book that well -- though I do remember making up fanfic in my head (I didn't know about writing fic, then, I was about 11...) where they figured out how to be together.

OP

[(Anonymous)]

Butterfly and Pinkerton are characters from Madame Butterfly. The author's note in later editions of Enchantress compares the main characters to them, and also to Romeo and Juliet.

And yeah, the book's pro-Prime Directive. I've read stuff before that's anti-Prime Directive (most obviously Speaker for the Dead), but I needed to read something that was really for it before I realized how much I disagreed with it.

[tcex28]

Did a bit of Googling, it seems it was cover artwork for a ninth grade English course based on the novel.