[ 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

[miri_d.livejournal.com]

I feel you on this, OP. At least as far as the first half of the secret is concerned. Here is my rant on that below:

If I'm reading a fic with a ship at all, I'll usually play "'Jesus Christ NO' Scent Bingo" for all the facepalm- and cringe-inducing tropes that get thoughtlessly recycled in a fic. Example, if the female character smells like strawberries (The X-Files fandom was INFAMOUS for this, and as a woman, I have literally never found a shampoo that smells exclusively of strawberries), or if they smell like vanilla, or if they smell like strawberries AND vanilla, I will mark something for each of those. Mark another one if a character smells like something that realistically there is NO FRAKKING WAY THEY COULD SMELL LIKE IT (e.g. if Brienne of Tarth smells like a fucking bed of flowers).

Mark one in bingo if the author fucking cops out and writes "[Character X smelled like Scent A and Scent B] and something uniquely them." Could you be ANY more bland and typical and lazy??? They're obviously at that point describing smell because they think they're supposed to, not because it's relevant to the plot or the character's point of view in which they are writing. And for someone like me, who is very strongly connected to their sense of smell, those little lackluster character details are sO frustrating!

That above "something uniquely them" is also true of TASTE -- if the characters are French kissing at any point, I will bet you FIVE DOLLARS that that statement will make it to the end of that paragraph. Like, of COURSE they taste unique from other people? But they sure as shit aren't gonna taste like chocolate and raspberries unless they literally JUST popped something in their mouth. And even then, chocolate taste gets sour once you eat it *very* quickly.

TL;DR I don't headcanon perfumes cause I don't have time for that shit, but basically YES.