[ SECRET POST #3031 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3031 ⌋

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

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Notes:

Going to be a late day, so early secrets!

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 035 secrets from Secret Submission Post #433.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[fscom]

Official advertise your fandom-related event thread.

RULES FOR THIS:
1. NO images bigger than 600x600 in either direction (banners, et cetera).
2. ONE POST PER USER under this thread.
3. What IS allowed: roleplay advertisements, fandom comms, fandom events, things like that.
4. What is NOT allowed: anything for profit, any kind of fic/art commissions, seeking 1-on-1 RP, that kind of thing.

[fscom]

Official clickables thread.

RULES FOR THIS:
1. NO huge images or columns of images that require scrolling, please.
2. ONE POST PER USER under in this thread.
3. If you're going to post, try to at least help the others.

[tachyonme]

[manzana]

[fscom]

General comments:

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

Different kind of confessions thread

[(Anonymous)]

Do you know someone else's big secret? What's something someone else told you in confidence?

Favorite celebrity commercials or appearances?

[(Anonymous)]

Reminded by #12

Embarrassing Interests

[kaijinscendre]

What are some things you have wanted to do or buy but were too embarrassed to?

I am reading World War Z at work and it reminds me how much I want to prep for an emergency/apocalypse. Like hoarding food and water. Learning how to use a variety of weapons (especially a bow). Learning some practical skills like metalworking or first aid. Hell, I want to prepare escape routes and a bugout bag. But....I know this is something considered a bit crazy.

Things that put you off a series from the get go.

[(Anonymous)]

To the point where you can't progress further into said series because it bothers you that much.

Mine would have to be-
1. Tamaki from Ouran. Can't stand him, can't stand his English VA, and it makes me not care about what story or growth he goes through.

2. I tried getting into Black Butler when it was the thing, but the first chapter showcasing how better Sebastian was than everyone else really put me off.

Revisiting old favorites?

[(Anonymous)]

Has anyone else gone back to some of their old fandoms/favorite medias for fun lately? Do they still hold up, in your opinion?

I'm replaying the first Wild Arms right now, and goddamn, I'd forgotten how much FUN it is. Not to mention the awesome soundtrack.

What job does your country do best

[(Anonymous)]

With the whole world of careers out there, which ones does your country excels at above and beyond everyone else.

For cultural, political, or sociological ones it's just the thing your people have an edge in.

Tell me about them and why!

how bad of a mother is this woman on a scale of one to crazy town

[(Anonymous)]

http://www.xojane.com/fun/i-let-my-kids-pick-my-tinder-dates

and why don't people around her make sure she knows this fact?

Getting evil delight out of fandom wank

[(Anonymous)]

Ever had that?

I have it every time a Tumblr darling does something Tumblr deems bad, and Tumblr has no idea how to respond. It happened a couple months ago with Anthony Mackie, and it is happening now with Chris evans and Jeremy Renner (who I still love).

The whole culture of black and white, people are devils or angels, causes some fantastic wank.

The Music Thread

[dethtoll]

It's Earth Day! So have some Earth. (No, seriously, there's like 5 songs in the whole world that move me to tears and Earth has at least two of them.)

The Bees Made Honey in the Lion's Skull

Hex; or Printing in the Infernal Method

Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light I and II

And, just for fun:

Devin Townsend - Earth Day

What's your MBTI type?

[(Anonymous)]

Just idly wondering.

Belle Gibson

[caerbannog]

Anyone know about her? I hasn't noticed her until a bit before the major drama went down and the holes were appearing. But every new lie revealed makes me so mad and her demanding respect over the whole thing frustrates me even more >:(

I do not like major lies.

Little Careless things you've done recently

[philstar22]

Anyone else done something careless recently that you feel bad about?

HOMESTUCK UPDATE

[insanenoodlyguy]

MONTAGE! (spoiler below)

Ever type in a random tag on AO3 and strike gold?

[(Anonymous)]

I tried this tag after catching up on FS and seeing the autistic Groot secret from a month ago. Two fics from the same author popped up.

http://archiveofourown.org/tags/autistic%20Groot

Share your buried AO3 tag treasures!

Gay Iceman (Bobby Drake)

[(Anonymous)]

So, Marvel has released a comic that has Iceman as gay. Which would be cool, except the way they did it seems really fucking skeevy.

-Jean Grey reads his mind without permission and calls him out his PRIVATE thoughts
-He tries to deny it but she (continueing to reads his mind) pressures him into sort of admitting it
-He says he might be bi (his older self has had relationships with women + he was saying a woman was hot in the comic). Jean Grey goes all, "LOL. No, you are totally gay. I know more about you than you."

So, yeah...seemed like a pretty fucking terrible way to make a character gay. Also, bisexual is still a no-no term we don't talk about.

AGE OF ULTRON REVIEW

[(Anonymous)]

The review embargo is lifted, so I can post my thoughts!
(I got to see an advance screening.)

Here we go:
- both I and the comic-savvy person I saw it with thought that Cap is better written in this, compared to the Avengers where he was kind of a jerk. It seems closer to how his character should be written. Not perfect, but an improvement. He also gets a bit of backstory time, but I thought they could have had more room to play with that (Dude was in WWII...)

- it's Joss Whedon, so witty quips and snarky one-liners abound. I guess if you don't like that kind of thing, it might annoy you. but I (and the rest of the audience) laughed a lot and had fun.

- Ultron was an okay villian. I feel like he could have been scarier. as far as the writing/dialogue goes, it was pretty good. but as for being an actual menacing presence on-screen... i felt like he fell short. remember that scene in the Winter Soldier, when he first shows up? i got goosebumps in that scene. even though i knew there'd be a happy ending etc., a part of me still thought "OH SHIT EVERYONE'S GONNA DIE"
that didn't happen here.
/soapbox time
part of the reason for that, imo, is that they made his face expressive in a human way. (which doesn't make any sense b/c he's a robot made of metal but whatever.) i feel like if they'd given him more a mask-like face it would have had an uncanny-valley effect.
another thing is simply the fact that he's CGI. I think CGI villians are much much harder to make scary, because we don't process them visually as being "real" and solidly there in the same way as puppets or animatronics. hence why The Thing is still scary as hell despite being made years ago.
See also: David Cronenberg.
this is also why i think Thanos will inevitably be disappointing b/c he's CGI and just not that scary or intimidating.

- there are still some serious "wow" moments. one is when Ultron is introduced, and all the heroes go "OH CRAP". anothere is when a certain super gets introduced near the climax, and everyone goes "WTF JUST HAPPENED I DON'T KNOW IF THIS IS GOOD OR BAD." those were very effective.

- there's this weird scene with Thor standing shirtless in an underground lake having visions or something. I have no idea what that's about. something to do with Loki and the infinity stones. comics people probably knew more than me.


other stuff:
- lots of cool team-ups with supers, or super-vs-super battles, with creative use of powers and playing off each other

- most of the Avengers get extra screentime/backstory, especially Nat & Bruce.

- Hayley Atwell appears and there is a single-line mention of Bucky

- Rhodey and Sam Wilson also show up. so does Nick Fury

- Pepper and Natalie Portman are absent

- a brief shout-out to the Steven/Tony shippers at the end

- someone dies but it's not who you think it is

- Bruce Nat is a thing and I ship it now. THEY BOTH DESERVE TO BE HAPPY GODDAMMIT.

- Hawkeye gets a ton of screentime. MAJOR SPOILERS FOR THIS. Just know that no matter who you shipped him with, your ship is sunk.

- the Maximoffs aren't really linked to the X-Men. they're referred to as 'enhanced' and their backstory doesn't have anything to do with Magneto, far as I can tell.

- see if you can spot what I think is the brief, blink-and-you'll-miss-it Wolverine reference!

- as for that youtube spiderman end-credits clip floating around... we DID get an end-credits scene, but it wasn't that. it was just connecting to GotG and Loki. so i can't really confirm whether or not Spidey will be in the next film or not. (personally i hope not because spiderman needs a rest already, he's already had a trilogy and another two movies, FFS.)

- I was worried this was going to be the Tony Stark Show, but I was pleasantly surprised. I mean, he's a big part of it (since he builds Ultron and all that) but he's not the only part.

- overall it was pretty good, 8/10

[(Anonymous)]

The new Lyttle Lyttons are up!

http://adamcadre.ac/15lyttle.html

For those not familiar, it's the annual contest for the the worst opening sentence to a novel, but with length restrictions and the requirement of plausibility, to stop it turning into the Bulwer-Lytton contest. http://adamcadre.ac/lyttle.html

[fscom]

Games thread!

Describe your Fandom in 5 words

[philstar22]

Describe your fandom in 5 words without naming anything fandom-specific or character names and see if people can guess what it is.

[(Anonymous)]

Powerful hot people getting treasure[s].