[ SECRET POST #2795 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2795 ⌋

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

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02.
[Law & Order: Criminal Intent]


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03.
[Fred Astaire/Ginger Rogers]


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04.
[Jeeves and Wooster]


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05.
[Yahtzee/Zero Punctuation]


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06.
[Markiplier]


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07.
[Jackie Chan Adventures]


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08.
[The Parent Trap]


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09.
[Alexander]


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10.
[Starsky and Hutch]











Notes:

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Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

The difference between 'damn big clue' vs 'vague, subtle hint' probably depends on how much you know about sickle cell. It's not about a disease being "racialized", it's just plain old statistics. 3/4 of sickle cell cases are in Africa. It's not just a disease that commonly affects people of African descent, it's a diseases where the majority of sufferers are of African descent. Sickle cell is famous for it, even among non medical circles.

Now, you're right, not everyone will know this. But that's not a case of it being a subtle vague hint, it's a case of people missing out on the significance of a damn big clue because they're uninformed on the subject, and if you're uninformed on a subject then everything feels too "subtle" to pick up on.

[nyxelestia]

Oh, no, I know that - it's just not the first thought that enters my mind when I hear about the disease in passing. As I mentioned above, if we're talking about sickle-cell, then definitely one of the first things I'll think about the disease itself is that most patients are of African descent - but in this context, I wasn't thinking about the disease on its own/for its own sake, but as a peripheral detail to something else entirely. I was reading everything in this book as it related to Shadow, so when I read that his mother had a debilitating disease, I was thinking about what it meant for him, not what it would have meant for/about his mother.