[ SECRET POST #2815 ]

[case]

⌈ Secret Post #2815 ⌋

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

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[John Green]


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(Hemlock Grove)


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[Russell Edwards' Naming Jack the Ripper]


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[Coronation Street]
















Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 020 secrets from Secret Submission Post #402.
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

[fscom]

08. http://i.imgur.com/8rIdKTt.png
[Russell Edwards' Naming Jack the Ripper]

[(Anonymous)]

Is the Russell Edwards thing the new Jack The Ripper theory?

Yeah, I think From Hell is just as much of an AU as it always was. It was never very plausible as an explanation for the actual crimes & the over-hyped new identity thing doesn't change that at all.

[(Anonymous)]

Thiiiis. The new reveal is sketchy, and that doesn't change how outlandish old theories were.

OP

[(Anonymous)]

I LOLed at the guy who said, "MY DNA is probably on [the shawl]!" referring to how sketchy the "finding" actually is.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, like... you do your thing, OP, but you're not exactly shaking anything up.

[(Anonymous)]

Is it me or does the man in that art cover resemble Derek Jacobi when he played Professor Yana/The Master in Utopia on Doctor Who?

[(Anonymous)]

I assumed that was what the secret was going to be about until I read the text.

[blueonblue]

Every few years they come up with a new theory. Remember when it was Walter Sickert? I liked that one.

[(Anonymous)]

The artist! That was a really interesting theory.

[(Anonymous)]

In my young day it was J. K. Stephen, Prince Eddy's tutor.

[luxshine]

I remember someone claiming that it had been the Queen. I wish I still had the links, because it was hilarious in the way that only truly fucked up conspiracy theories are.

[(Anonymous)]

That one was fascinating.

[(Anonymous)]

I like the one dude who insists it was Lewis Carroll, through the cunning use of anagrams and the number 42.

[(Anonymous)]

this secret makes me angry on so many levels

urgh

[(Anonymous)]

Why?

OP

[(Anonymous)]

What, you don't like the new theory, or you're one of the SJWs who hates Moore?

[(Anonymous)]

One of the first things I read about that new theory was an article on The Guardian, and I haven't taken it seriously since. A shawl bought at an auction by a "self-confessed armchair detective" is not going to convince me of anything.

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/sep/08/jack-the-ripper-polish-aaron-kosminski-dna

[cushlamochree]

It's a work of fiction

It was an AU all along

[dethtoll]

This.

Also I love that throwaway bit about SJWs and Moore. I'm not a SJW and I dislike Moore too. He's a self-important hack with a rape fetish. He has some good work under his belt (Swamp Thing for example) but so much of it is just... Alan Moore.

OP CONFESSION TIME

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah OK OK OK I just posted this secret b/c I wanted to spark discussion about it. Here's the real Bonus Secret confession: I actually liked Knight's book.

*OP awaits the pitchforks and screaming*

AAAARRRRRGGGGHHHHHHH THESE FUCKING S!Bs

[(Anonymous)]

Why, why, why does every single secret have to scrounge around for some whiny passive-aggressive "meeehhhhh I'm so ~persecuted~ and this opinion is so ~edgy~ and ~revolutionary~ I'll be ~martyred~ if I admitted it out loud!" excuse to tack on?

Just post the fucking secret. We don't need no steenking persecution-complex-dripping s!bs.

Re: AAAARRRRRGGGGHHHHHHH THESE FUCKING S!Bs

[darkmanifest]

I think it's mostly to prevent the "Why is this a secret?" questions that pop up all the time.

[i_paint_the_sky]

As much heck as this book is getting (before it's actually for sale and anyone can actually read it), I think it has enough circumstantial evidence to pretty much make the case. Aaron Kosminski was already one of the most likely suspects, a DNA connection just makes the evidence all that more damning. I think I'd feel comfortable saying that chances are really high that he was Jack.

But yeah, from what I've heard about it, From Hell was always very AU-ish, as it picked a particularly unlikely "real" killer. But hey, the movie did inspire Russel Edwards' interest in Jack the Ripper, so that's something.

[(Anonymous)]

No, he wasn't. He was never considered a suspect during the actual murders. His name didn't come up until years later and NOT from Scotland Yard.

[(Anonymous)]

Y'know, it's not just SJWs who hate Alan Moore. I hate him for being a miserable killjoy asshole who looks down on superhero comics because he's a grumpy old man with nothing better to do :D