[ SECRET POST #2766 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2766 ⌋

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

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02.
[Rent]


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03.
[Attack on Titan]


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04.
[Game of Thrones]


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05.
[Jeff the Killer/creepypasta]


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06.
[the last airbender/ lok]


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07.
[Steven Universe]


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08.
[Michael Ballack]


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09.
[Transformers]


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Notes:

Staying late at work again. Sorry. :(

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 021 secrets from Secret Submission Post #394.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[fscom]

04. http://i.imgur.com/QKO7b4f.jpg
[Game of Thrones]

[(Anonymous)]

That is fucking gross.

[(Anonymous)]

It would be, except that the white people from fake!England find the coloration of that particular race [milk pale skin, silver hair, purple eyes] as weird and as unusual as the darker skinned eastern nations do.

She's basically an Atlantean.

Not a white person as we know them.

[(Anonymous)]

YANA. Her storyline in general makes me cringe but this was easily one of the worst scenes.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't necessarily find her storyline completely problematic because slavery is totally bad and ending it isn't wrong. But this scene is awful. And the show made it even worse by making everyone here but her a POC when in the books it seemed more like a mix.

[(Anonymous)]

In the books it was absolutely a mix and they should have done something about it.

[(Anonymous)]

I really don't know how people can NOT get that this scene pretty much mirrors how she sees herself, and then the new season direclty proceeds to tell us that "you thought you were the great white savior? well, think again."

I cringed at the scene when I first saw it. Now, in retrospect, I really admire how they managed to make her relatively cheesy story such a great chain of motifs.

It's just like the Dragons flying over the little girl to then roast and eat a goat in the first episode. You *know* something is not quite right with how the scene plays out, because from the way it is built up, it would be the little girl getting attacked. And then, well, last episode. The long awaited and horrible catharsis.

[(Anonymous)]

Daily reminder, white empires lead to slavery being at its lowest point in the last three thousand years and it's increased since their collapse.

[kaffy_r]

Citation.

Or, you know, you could perhaps re-read your sentence and back away slowly.

Yeah…

[(Anonymous)]

It's pretty bad. You'd think someone would just LOOK at the damn picture and realize that there might be some unfortunate implications. But nope.

I'm going to say this was likely a result of stupidity rather than intentionally trying to make a statement. (One can only hope…)

I haven't watched the show though. Does adding context make it better, worse, or stay the same?

[(Anonymous)]

I bet you would be okay with it if those people were white or she was brown.

[peablossom]

If nothing else, that scene was ridiculous. I couldn't stop laughing when I saw it out of shock that someone thought it was a good idea, filmed it, and then kept it in the finished product.

[kallanda_lee]

Honestly, I think a lot of scenes in Game of Thrones ARE supposed to make you uncomfortable or well, think about them. Especially in the last season we've seen a lot of problems with actually ruling for Dany. I'm not sure this scene was intended that way, however I do think the whole adoration thing was totally a set-up for her as she is now, with her dragons going out of control and her seeing abolishing slavery isn't quite so easy (and comes at a cost).

[(Anonymous)]

I want Tumblr SJWs to leave.

[leikomgwtfbbq]

I don't know jack about Game of Thrones so when I saw this image I was like "that must be a killer concert, look at how stoked everyone is about crowdsurfing"

[(Anonymous)]

I think what bugs me most of all is that in the books, the slaves aren't just generic dark skinned people. The slaves are of every single color and I think if the show had done that it would be much better.

[(Anonymous)]

cue defensive GoT fans going: they were extras in the area of filming, it would've been racist not to cast them! Those brown people aren't poc they are white! The fact that they are brown and she is lily white is pure coincidence!

...did I miss any from the last time someone posted a secret about this scene?

[(Anonymous)]

I'm so over this 'problematic' buzzword.

[gabzillaz]

So fucking messy.

Yawn

[(Anonymous)]

Yet again white girls projecting their own issues onto a fictional world. Stay pressed F!S.

[(Anonymous)]

It seems people ITT are the ones making it about race. On its own, it's merely awkward.

[(Anonymous)]

I am so thoroughly sick of the word 'problematic'. It's lost all credibility and when I see it, I immediately stop taking the user seriously.

Find another word, I beg you.

[philippos42]

That is an interesting take on orange/cyan contrast. I say cyan because she's not in teal. Is that azure? Whatever. I get why, photographically, you would do that in a moving image, and making her the lightest there makes her luminous, which is neat--but it does seem like an artificial color distinction (both her clothes and her skin).

[rbhudson]

Same. If you Google "white savior" I bet this is the first thing that shows up

[arcadiaego]

Given what's happened since then I *hope* it's meant to be uncomfortable.