[ SECRET POST #2888 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2888 ⌋

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

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 060 secrets from Secret Submission Post #413.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 1 (rape) - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

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Whoops sorry folks

[insanenoodlyguy]

So usually when I'm not doing a stream I post something about that. Caught up in thanksgiving and all, I did not this week. People did come to my room and go, so, sorry folks.

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Official clickables thread.

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[icecheetah]

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General comments:

(If the thread contains triggery content please post as 2nd comment so it collapses!)

[(Anonymous)]

Slow day...

when was the last time you fell asleep because you were so bored?

[(Anonymous)]

zzzzzzzzz zzzz zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

[(Anonymous)]

Dunno.

[(Anonymous)]

in the middle of a concert. I went to one of those concerts where lots of bands play and one of the early bands was SOOOOO bad that I fell asleep while sitting on the floor waiting for the band I came for to show up.

[(Anonymous)]

LOTR in the movies.

[(Anonymous)]

I've been watching non-American/Canadian television lately and I've been wondering something. How come they all look like they were filmed in the 1980's? Is it the equipment? Is it because American/Canadian television is more willing to experiment with different filming styles and I am used to that? I am watching recent German crime shows and they all look like they were filmed with the same 80's camera and have the same 80's hazy, monochromatic, point and shoot style.

Am I wrong?

And to those non-American/Canadian F!Sers, what show from your country would you put on a must see list to the world? (I am always looking out for something new to see.)

tmi menstrual problem

[(Anonymous)]

will post in the reply so it will collapse...

Alternative to the Bechdel Test?

[(Anonymous)]

Kinda being built off secret #4...

So the Bechdel test is a pretty popular (though very flawed) test for female characters in media. My issue is that if you have a main male character it very often causes failure due to the simple fact that if the main character is present, it often hampers women's discussions since he's going to be included or being talked about (not always, but quite often nonetheless).

Wouldn't a better alternative be to test whether there are any characters in a film or work that don't HAVE to be female by traditional Hollywood standards? Or, in other words, are there any female characters that aren't presented as girlfriends/mothers?

To give an example: in all of the Star Wars films, basically almost every character that is female (and all major female characters) MUST be female due to her role in the story.

Shmi (Anakin's mom) had to be female so that she could give birth to him
Padmé had to be female to be Anakin's love interest/give birth to Luke and Leia
Leia had to be female because she's Han Solo's girlfriend
Padmé's handmaidens had to be female to double for her
Beru Lars had to be female since she's Owen's wife

There are a few exceptions: there's the bounty hunter and the Queen in Episode II. Then there's Mon Mothma whose role conceivably could have been filled by a man. But that's really about it.

I think it'd be an interesting test because it shows how works only really use the BARE minimum women they can get away with. And always fill in the generic roles with men.

When you look at the Marvel films, for instance, so many of the roles for women are roles that (to fit Hollywood traditions) have to be played by women. Whereas roles by men could conceivably be played by either men or women. There's no reason, for instance, that Bruce Banner's story couldn't be re-written with a woman as the lead. But you couldn't have Jane be a man unless you break with Hollywood conventions.

"foreign" film rec thread!

[ketita]

Hollywood tends to be very represented in fandom, but what about other countries' films? How about a rec thread for movies from around the world, that people here might not have heard of?
Let's show some love to the non-Hollywood-blockbuster!

(feel free to include links or subs!)

Is there any instance where YA fiction is better than critically acclaimed classics?

[(Anonymous)]

just wondering

Fictional character you'd get married to right now

[(Anonymous)]

Just for fun.

Help me convince myself...

[(Anonymous)]

that I just didn't lock the door and there's nobody else in the house.

Worst Fictional Friends Ever

[(Anonymous)]

Inspired by the Friends secret - which fictional friends do you think are some of the worst? This can be intentional on the part of the show, unintentionally, or maybe a mixture of both.

What's everyone been up to?

[fingalsanteater]

Besides working, stressing about work, sleeping, and having horribly stressful dreams while trying to sleep, I've been watching Yu-Gi-Oh. Watched the first season when I was a kid and enjoyed it, but, man, it's a very fun show to watch as an adult too. It's so ridiculous and it's kind of my light shining in darkness right now because it makes laugh really hard.

What about you guys? I don't really get much time to read or comment anymore. :(

Could you/do you live alone?

[(Anonymous)]

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Dragon Age Spoilers

[(Anonymous)]

Is everyone else who made Alistair a King rather than a Warden as chuffed as I am?

My girlfriend made him stay with the wardens. I have been lording it over her since the scene

OMG a favorite fic of mine just updated after a 10 YEAR HIATUS

[(Anonymous)]

Holy shit, this gives me so much delight you can't imagine. And while I can't prove this had anything to do with the update, a couple months ago I had left a detailed, appreciative review on that fic -- years after any other reviewer had reviewed it -- saying how much I enjoyed and loved the fic even though it was an abandoned WIP. And then, lo and behold, a couple months later, today? A NEW CHAPTER. Coincidence? Maybe, but what if it isn't?

Moral of the story: it's never too late to review a fic, and never too late for a review to be appreciated by the author!

Bryke commented on Korrasami

[(Anonymous)]

(18:30 start) http://www.ign.com/articles/2014/10/02/channel-surfing-podcast-episode-233

"(M) Interviewer: “Yeah.”
(F) Interviewer: “I feel like Korrasami’s the way.”
*laughs*

BK: “It is ‘A’ way, it is a great way.”

MD: “It’s a valid way if you enjoy that…”

BK: “It’s a good way; but there is no way to satisfy everyone and, at the end of the day, you just have to tell the story that you want to tell, and put it out there. If you start second-guessing, like ‘Well, I better see how many tumblr pages are dedicated to this ship.’ And then ‘Well, but wait, there’s fewer of these but they’re a little better quality.’ Like, if that’s how you’re gonna write and create, you’re gonna make a crappy show; so we just tell the story that Mike and I, and the writers, feel we like; and, sometimes people will like it, sometimes they don’t. Everyone in this room probably has a different opinion.”

MD: “And then; then, then, then, then…and then there’re still people who want Mako and Korra to get back together, so, you know.”

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Pretty much what I expected, they're not going to do it. There's going to be a shitstorm come the 19th (Or at least, that's what I got from 'we won't do what tumblr wants us to do' lol)

Media that you count as feminist

[(Anonymous)]

Go.

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