[ SECRET POST #2772 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2772 ⌋

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

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02.
[Audrey Tatou, Coco Avant Chanel]


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03.
[Orange is the New Black]


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04.
[Recettear]


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05.
[Mad Men]


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06.
[Game of Thrones]


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07.
[Archer]


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08.
[Kate Beaton's Hark! A Vagrant]


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09.
[Sleepy Hollow]


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10.
[Divergent]













Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 033 secrets from Secret Submission Post #396.
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]

10. http://i.imgur.com/hScrDCu.png
[Divergent]

[sarillia]

I couldn't stop laughing at all the way all the Dauntless people had piercings and tattoos and pretty much no one in the other factions did. Because bravery is the same as thrillseeking and only thrillseekers like body mods of course. And dress in black.

[(Anonymous)]

I found it hilarious how shallow the Dauntless's idea of bravery was. Well, I found the whole series hilariously shallow and ill-thought-out, but that all stood out to me as well.

[sarillia]

The shallow idea of bravery alternated between making me laugh and pissing me off. There was hardly any respect for bravery in the face of dangers other than bodily harm.

[(Anonymous)]

I choose to believe that the author found an eight-year-old boy somewhere and asked him what makes someone tough and then based the entire faction in his answer. It's the only thing that makes sense.

[(Anonymous)]

I thought that was kind of the point. All the factions were hilariously shallow in their philosophies and that's why it was all artificially controlled.

[meishuu]

This pretty much. I have piercings and tattoos, and I still think that the whole "dauntless" thing is bullshit. Apparently being "brave" is about body modification, doing stupid shit that puts your life and others in danger, and following blindly your "leaders". How brave~~

(I hate this book. I loather it... arg)

[(Anonymous)]

The way they dress secret societies in teen movies is cringeworthy. It's like black leather is a uniform.

[(Anonymous)]

I can't stop laughing because having all those piercings are a fucking awful thing to have in a fight. It pretty much gives your opponent an easy way to hurt you: grab the piercing and pull. In gym class, we had to remove all jewelry or put tape over our piercings if they were new as a safety precaution.

There is so much stuff in the Dauntless faction that I just went, "That is so stupid, you're all going to die/be horribly injured, there is a reason the military has dress and behavior codes!!" Not policing the initiates to the point where someone could get stabbed and making them compete with one another is an ass backwards way of forming team cohesion (which you want - that's why the CO's in boot camp are strict and stereotypically jerks, they are making it so that you have to rely on your fellow trainees, so that you all function as a unit, so you can know that that person has your back.)

[(Anonymous)]

That was one of the things I hated most about the entire series--this idea that only physical acts are brave; or that people who are brave express it in physical ways or by risk taking. It's just so dumb, and borderline offensive.

[(Anonymous)]

Huh. I've always pronounced it air-you-dite. I didn't know the other pronunciation was a thing.

It seems it's pronounced that way because it's the way the author wants it pronounced: http://veronicarothbooks.blogspot.com/2012/05/divergent-pronunciations.html

Also, both pronunciations can be correct:
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/erudite
http://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2012/06/erudite.html

[(Anonymous)]

Not OP, but I've always said it air-oo-dite. It just seems more erudite, yanno? :p

[likeadeuce]

Yeah, 'air-yoo-dite' is the pronunciation I've always heard (maybe it's an accent thing -- are you British, OP?) And that's also the pronunciation used in the audio books, which is how I read the series, so it didn't occur to me to say it otherwise.

[likeadeuce]

It feels more significant to me to note that Theo James is such a mumbler, his "Welcome to Dauntless" sounds like "Welcome to Dullness," which made me laugh everytime I saw the trailer.

[(Anonymous)]

LOL this series is the stupidest thing I've heard of in a long time, don't worry, little wannabe goth, about how you'd be sorted.

This is making me uncomfortable

[(Anonymous)]

But only because the red-on-black in the top right is for some reason making the words looks 3D and it's making me dizzy.

Hi, my name is Amity Candor Dauntless Erudite Way

[chardmonster]

I am a Dauntless (in case you couldn't tell) and I wear mostly black

[(Anonymous)]

You wouldn't test into any of the factions because the Divergent faction system makes even less sense than Hogwarts Houses. So don't worry about it!

[(Anonymous)]

I'd probably be Erudite. I even used to have glasses. (Got contacts so I could see on roller coasters, because I was always worried about losing my glasses if I didn't take them off for the ride.)

[(Anonymous)]

Is that an actual thing in the books? Does everyone in the "smart" faction have glasses? It's hilarious and kind of sad that an adult thought of all this.

How good are you at parkour?

[fingalsanteater]

Do you like beating people up? You'd probably be a good Dauntless if you can parkour and punch.

[bigpaw]

Don't worry nonners, you'd probably be a divergent, because you're a real living person and therefore have more than one personality trait!

[(Anonymous)]

While your bonus secret makes me grin and think, "Sounds like Erudite is where you are totally suited," I think a point of the series is that you can be many things, and that you can make choices that go against the grain, even against your grain. So you could choose Dauntless and be damned right in doing so!

[alexi_lupin]

The Erudite pronunciation thing annoyed me as well. Not so much because I was like "That's clearly objectively wrong everywhere!" because I'm sure it's a legit pronunciation in some places, but it was so distracting every time I heard it. Like, I'd be immersed in the story and then suddenly be thinking about pronunciation.

[(Anonymous)]

1) You're never too old for anything that interests, amuses, or an any other way entertains you. Even if it's flawed.

2) The whole shallow version of bravery thing: you know that characters actually discussed that issue, right? Although whether it was explored as a plot point in later books or just meant as a lantern, I don't know, because I got distracted and didn't read the next book.