[ SECRET POST #3019 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3019 ⌋

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

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[CSI: NY]


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[All Creatures Great and Small]


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[Peter Dinklage]


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[The Flash]


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[Person of Interest]


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[Arrow, Felicity Smoak]


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[Shin Megami Tensei]


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(Pretty Little Liars)


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[Fantasia]


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27. [ SPOILERS for Rage of Bahamut: Genesis ]



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28. [ SPOILERS for Better Call Saul ]



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29. [ SPOILERS for Umineko no Naku Koro ni ]



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30. [ WARNING for suicide ]



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31. [ WARNING for rape ]





















Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 00 pages, 000 secrets from Secret Submission Post #431.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 1 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

Re: Mythology (Arthur, Greek/Roman, Norse, etc.)

[(Anonymous)]

The thing I've found about myths is that most of them have had professional fanfic written about them for centuries now (Arthurian myth, as you point out, being a key example). Not liking how most people write Hades/Persephone could refer to the various bits of canon or adaptations or continuations as much as to previous fandom writers on the exchange (and in that particular case, probably does unless they specified, given the whole argument about the pomegranate myth). Most people I know who write myth fanfic just pick and choose their own bits of 'canon', tell people up front about it, and put their own spin on it from there. I mean, if it's good enough for opera, it's good enough for fanfic, right?

I've read various bits of various myths that I use (usually in translation), and I've used essentially cliff notes on others to get the key points, because interpretations of personality and characterisation tend to vary wildly even within the sources (depending on which mythology we're talking about here, but the likes of, say, Greek or Arthurian, you can pretty much go nuts).

I don't know. Most myth fans I've talked to have been fairly laid back, barring sore topics like 'Hades is a villain' or 'Loki is a Satan-analogue' or 'such-a-book/film/comic completely destroyed such-a-god/hero's characterisation from the myths'. In some places, the Christianisation of myths can be a bit of a sore spot as well. Depends on what kind of discussions you get into. Fic itself is usually relatively safe, though. A lot of the audience is running off pop-cultural osmosis as much as anything, and people tend to specify which versions they're talking about otherwise.