[ 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

[(Anonymous)]

I think authors should stop describing how characters smell regardless.

[(Anonymous)]

No way! I'm with OP, I'm obsessive about scents and get irritated when a writer's description contradicts my (awesome, but noncanon and therefore not authoritative) concepts of what characters would smell like. However, I appreciate that writers TRY. Scents are evocative and intimate, so there's a great payoff when writers nail it.

[silverr]

... at least until the day we get the electronic equivalent of distributing scratch-n-sniff cards with fics.

[(Anonymous)]

I want to see more characters' scents in fanfic, but realistic and well-described ones. Not like "Squall smelt like strawberries and evergreen."

[(Anonymous)]

this is the exact reason I base all scents either off perfumes or candles. Best way to find "manly" scents is to find "manly" candles. B&N had a good selection. :P

[darkmanifest]

That...is a good idea. I'm gonna do that.

[(Anonymous)]

Squall and most action protagonists would probably smell like sweat and dirt. Maybe gunpowder and singed hair.

[(Anonymous)]

She smelled like baby puke and ammonia.

He smelled like day-old sweat, juniper, and mink musk.

They kissed.

[(Anonymous)]

Me too. They're almost never like anyone I ever smelled.

[(Anonymous)]

TBF, if they wanted to be accurate to my reality, they would have to describe every single character with "He/she smelled like a person".

[(Anonymous)]

Or taste.

I really don't want to know how characters taste. It's almost never accurate, and it slips a little into cannibal territory (unless that's what the author is going for).

[(Anonymous)]

It always cracks me up when fics describe how characters taste. I think my favorite was one where Agent Scully tasted like peaches and coffee. It was during a kiss, so not completely impossible if she'd just eaten a peach and had a cup of coffee, but still kind of silly.