[ 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 ].
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Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[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)]

That's a hilarious image.

[(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]

It does seem that way in the first book... then comes the "because genetics" explanation. Gah.

[(Anonymous)]

You mean it gets dumber after the first book?

[meishuu]

Yeah. Much more dumber. Basically, the "Divergent" are "genetically pure individuals", and that's why they embody all the personality traits.

Ugh, I't a mess but this post here explains it better:

http://www.janelcomeau.ca/2014/05/overanalyzing-divergent-we-need-to-talk.html

[(Anonymous)]

DA

"Genetically pure"?

What the ever loving fuck...

Genes don't work like that.

[(Anonymous)]

Inbreeding, there's your reason.

[(Anonymous)]

*jaw drops*

Is the author fucking serious? O_O Wow.

[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.