[ SECRET POST #2990 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2990 ⌋

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

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(Transformers Prime)


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06.
(Transformers Prime)


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08.
[Wish / Clamp / Manga in this artstyle in general]


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09.
[Terry Pratchett]


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10.
[STRAIN: Strategic Armored Infantry]


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11.
[CSI Cyber]


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12.
[POTC & One Piece]


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[Marvel Comics' Black Widow]


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14.
[James Corden, new host of the LATE LATE SHOW (and for DOCTOR WHO)]


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15.
[Harry Potter]


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16.
[Fallen London]









Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 017 secrets from Secret Submission Post #427.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

OP checking in.

[(Anonymous)]

Well, some people understood what I was saying, even though most of you didn't. I didn't mean to imply that platonic friendships between men weren't shown at all in TV and movies, I meant that ones as deep as Holmes and Watson's didn't happen often in a civilian setting. You see glimpses and hints but it's never center stage precisely because creators don't want to alienate stuffy audiences who see those bonds as gay and therefore a sin.

It's my fault for not expressing that well enough, but wow, the fact that everyone felt the need to dogpile me only confirms why this needs to be a secret. I like slash just fine, BTW. I just notice that if you dare to say there are some circumstances where you prefer not to have it (or any ship, might I add), people get super duper angry. It's really funny how many people were so outraged that I would discount all the myriad examples of deep platonic friendships between men, yet few people actually managed to name any. Thanks, FS.

Re: OP checking in.

[solticisekf]

Thanks, Obama!

upd. I mean what did you expect? People dragging up platonic male male ships by thousands or what.

Oh, and SH is not exclusive in this regard. Old literature tended to portrait friendship differently so that it seems very close compared to the one in the modern lit.

Re: OP checking in.

[(Anonymous)]

dude one of the people in the anime thread just named 8 examples on the top of their head

Re: OP checking in.

[(Anonymous)]

wow

Re: OP checking in.

[fenm]

I like slash just fine, BTW. I just notice that if you dare to say there are some circumstances where you prefer not to have it (or any ship, might I add), people get super duper angry.

But that's not the part most people are disagreeing with you about.

Well...

[(Anonymous)]

I meant that ones as deep as Holmes and Watson's didn't happen often in a civilian setting - I have to disagree here. I think there have been many deep and platonic (some might even say codependent) relationships between men in media: Kirk and Spock (Star Trek), Starsky and Hutch, Doyle and Brodie (The Professionals), Steve and Danny (Hawaii Five-0), Casey and Dan (Sports Night), Fraser and Ray (Due South - either Ray), Chandler and Joey (Friends), Murtaugh and Riggs (Lethal Weapon), etc.

Re: OP checking in.

[(Anonymous)]

TV Tropes sucks for a lot of reasons, but it's pretty for recs when people make the claim that X is "never" done in media.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HeterosexualLifePartners

Click on the Film tab, I seem to be seeing a lot of non-war movie examples there. I mean, even without looking at this I could've recced you 3 ridiculously famous examples in Dead Poets Society, Shawshank Redemption, and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.

Re: OP checking in.

[(Anonymous)]

If you're gonna get this upset because people disagree with you, and make passive aggressive comments about how "SOME people understood me," then maybe you don't have a thick enough skin for submitting secrets.

Also, you've completely misunderstood what most people were trying to say because you were so invested in being angry that you didn't get a bunch of asspats, so good on you.

Re: OP checking in.

[(Anonymous)]

People aren't mad because slash. People are mad because feminism.

(rightly or wrongly I can't say but that is the cause. It's not about not shipping Holmes and Watson. It's about the idea that female characters are underrepresented compared to male characters and relationships) (tbh I feel like the reaction has been kind of knee-jerk and ideological but w/e)

Re: OP checking in.

[(Anonymous)]

you seem new and remarkably thin-skinned