[ SECRET POST #352 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #352 ⌋

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

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 10 pages, 250 secrets from Secret Submission Post #051.
Secrets Not Posted: 0 broken links, 0 not!secrets, 0 not!fandom, [ 1 2 3 ] too big, [ 1 ] hate letter.
Next Secret Post: Tomorrow, Monday, December 24th, 2007.
Current Secret Submission Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[annwyd.livejournal.com]

10. I don't mind people not liking Squall/Rinoa--even I don't think it was perfectly developed, although I kind of go "buh?" when people insist it had no development at all. I just boggle at how rabid fandom gets about the haet, and how it usually involves bashing Rinoa in particular. -_- I know from other comments of yours that that's not your tack, though, so while I disagree with your take on it, I don't get all rarrrgh about it.

I get the impression from a lot of bashers that fans are clearly only liking it because of some mystic pull to main pairings and are totally in denial about how horrible it really is. >_< Although I've also seen people claim that Rinoa someone tricked Squall into loving her with her Sorceress powers, blargh.

22. e_e Thank you for being willing to call yourself a feminist. I am so sick of the negative connotation the word seems to have acquired in fandom. >:/

[fuyu]

10. What. What. There was plenty of development. What? XD Geez.

... I actually like that idea, myself (just because for my view it reconciles the themes that disturb me and also offers a way to fairly painlessly untangle them) but... it's a what-if for me. Are people actually CLAIMING that as something that happened? O_o

22. So am I, believe me. =_= It sucks. Feminism is not an evil gaping toothed vagina waiting to EAT ALL MEN or whatever - and if it is you're doing it wrong.

[annwyd.livejournal.com]

10. I would have liked to have seen more development, and I think more people would have liked it if the game had given us more examples of the ways Squall and Rinoa were good for each other and how they fell for each other through those ways; as it was, you sort of have to coax that stuff out of the text. Now I don't mind that coaxing, because there are several things in the text that really appeal to me about the relationship: the way they have complementary views of time (Squall is constantly obsessing about the future, practically to the point of giving himself a nervous breakdown; Rinoa is flighty and lost in the present) that are dysfunctional on their own but actually work together; the way they find comfort and connection in each other; the way Squall is finally able to unburden himself to her. But, y'know, I shouldn't have to dig for more support.

...I, uh. Sorry for rambling. I just like to try to explain my reasons for shipping unpopular pairings sometimes, because a lot of the times fans are just like "omg teh h8 ;_; *retreats into safe fandom place*" and they remain strange alien things to those who don't like the pairing. If that makes any sense.

(And while I haven't seen anyone claiming that it was actually canonically intended to be what happened, I've seen them claim that it's the only way to explain Squall falling for Rinoa.)

22. Truth. >_< I'm working on an idea for making a community to discuss gender issues/female characters, as well as try to reclaim female characters treated badly by either their canon, their fandom, or both, but I'm partly not sure how fandom would take it and partly...unable to think of a name.

[miss-arel.livejournal.com]

*coughs, sidles into the conversation* Well, a couple of my friends did make a community something like that a while back: backward_heels is a place to discuss and appreciate women in fiction, and I think it'd be a good forum for the kinds of discussions you seem interested in (and as another fandom feminist, I know I'm interested in them too!).

Of course, if you do start your own comm, I'd love to know about it!

[annwyd.livejournal.com]

Really? I looked and looked for something like that, but couldn't find it. More communities need to set up appropriate interests. D: