[ SECRET POST #3117 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3117 ⌋

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

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03. http://i.imgur.com/k16VpGi.gif
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[Dark Tower]


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[Ring of Honor Final Battle 2010, Steen vs Generico]


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[Fallen London]


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12. [SPOILERS for Orphan Black]



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13. [SPOILERS for Welcome to Night Vale]



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14. [SPOILERS for 999 and Virtue's Last Reward]



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15. [SPOILERS for Hannibal]



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16. [WARNING for incest]

[The Grifters]










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Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[fscom]

07. http://i.imgur.com/9PnE3H3.jpg

[(Anonymous)]

Don't

even

care

[(Anonymous)]

I don't like soulmate AUs either. The idea of being together because you're destined is so much less interesting to me than two people getting together because they love the other's personality or where the other person did something to make them fall in love. You know, instead of 'oh, I like you because I'm supposed to.'

[(Anonymous)]

I mean, I can see where you're coming from. But if it's a pairing that I already ship, I've already pretty much bought in on them being together. So, like, any fic I read for that pairing, I would pretty much expect them to get together whether it's a soulmate fic or not, you know? And the soulmate thing gives an opportunity for all kinds of dynamics that I personally find dumb

[takaraikarin]

What are your fandoms, Nonnie, gimme all your soulmate AUs. I like silly AUs, soupmate included, but lots of my fandoms are small enough it doesn't follow the 'fashionable' tropes in popular fandoms.

And I never read a 'countdown till you meet your souomate'

[(Anonymous)]

Oh man a soupmate AU sounds amazing

[caerbannog]

Why the word pathetic? That doesn't make sense, soulmate!au is a trope to explore - not just a reason to get two people together. This is fandom, a reason is not needed.

I'll read all the soulmate!au's exploring the cultural and social implications of. Especially soulmate!aus where someone* is already in a relationship when the soulmate pops up and then decides to stay in the relationship they are already in and just be bff with soulmate

_{*cough Tony/Stark and some other avenger of your choice}

[ketita]

I once wrote a short one where two people faked being soulmates for political reasons (tattoed a matching mark above the soulmate mark), one of them genuinely fell in love, but the other one not so much, though there was camaraderie and appreciation... then he met his /true/ soulmate (who didn't know it was him) and cue messy situation without a pretty solution.

[(Anonymous)]

I've read a few good soulmate AU fanfic, but most of the ones I've come across are so cliched and sappy. Not really my thing.

[(Anonymous)]

So....don't read it? I don't like a/b/o, so I don't read it or bash people who do.

[elaminator]

They're really hit and miss for me. (If given the chance I'd rather both characters fall for each other naturally.)

If I adore the pairing and the writing is good then I'll probably try it, but I tend to read soulmate AU's (And other AU's like coffee shop, teacher, etc) as a last resort. (Aka, when I've went through literally everything else and am desperate.)

Right now I'm seeing lots of marked ones (where either the name of your soulmate appears on your body, or a phrase that person says does) and I'm kind of bored of it. Wish someone would do something unusual with it.

[silvereriena]

I like them depending on how they're done. Not really into the countdown ones but I'll give other kinds a try. Although I feel like the soulmate!AU fad was pretty brief because I'm not seeing it much in my fandoms.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't get soulmate AUs where people have their soulmate's name written on their body and the characters keep talking about how they are waiting to find their soulmate. Why don't they just google their soulmate then? If it's set in modern times surely someone would have made a database.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, it's way better when it's first words they say to you

[(Anonymous)]

Good point.

I like soulmate AUs where one party is struggling really hard not to be with their soulmate, because how things stand now it would be a disaster, a kind of abusive arranged marriage. Just because someone's your future soulmate doesn't mean you should be with them right now.

I don't mind them, but some of the premises go way beyond my suspension of disbelief.

[(Anonymous)]

The can't-see-color until you meet your soulmate, for instance.

The first-words-you-say-to-them-printed-somewhere-on-your-body ones are a little iffy, I always end up wondering why there aren't a bunch of people with "Hi" or "Hello" or "Good to meet you". The name-printed-somewhere-on-your-body one is weird to me simply because of the whole naming process (Does it appear while someone is still in the womb if the parents have already decided a name? Is it set when the name is on the birth certificate? When the parents say it for the first time? What if someone changes their name?). And the countdown ones make everything seem predetermined. But if they are written well enough, I'll read them.

Re: I don't mind them, but some of the premises go way beyond my suspension of disbelief.

[perfidiousfate]

To be fair, I imagine that in a world where your first words are printed on your soulmate's body, people might feel a lot less inclined to use rote greetings such as 'Hi' with strangers. I agree on the name thing completely though; it has all sorts of weird implications about your 'true' name.

[(Anonymous)]

I've read and enjoyed some of them but in general soulmate AUs sit ill with me because the element I like best in romantic relationships is that the parties choose to be together.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm not fond of soulmate premises for a variety of reasons, mostly involving my suspension of disbelief. I mean, it's a little odd to think that there's just one person who makes the absolute perfect match with you, but people believe that in the real world, so whatever. But making it a natural law for everyone, you have to start wondering about the details. Specifically about how many people could ever even *meet* their soulmates.

I mean, what if my soulmate was living in a small, poverty-stricken village in rural India, and I was working as a web designer in San Francisco? I don't see any reason someone like that *couldn't* be a wonderful person I'd click with, after all. Or what if my soulmate died in a car crash five years ago, before we had a chance to meet? What if we don't share a common language? What if they're eighty years old when I'm twenty, or vice-versa? What are the odds that the one person in the world who's the most perfect for me was born within a limited span of years from myself, in the same part of the world, in circumstances where we were actually likely to cross paths? What are the odds, for that matter, that it could be set up so that everyone in the world could be paired off this way? The logistics would be mind-boggling.

And if there's only one person in the world for you, will you be just miserable forever if you can't find them? What if they die, and you know you're never ever going to find someone as perfect for you as them, and never be as happy again? That could increase the suicide rate horribly. If you find someone you really like, but don't get the soulmate match with them, do you just give up on the relationship, and wait for the mystical destiny to take control of your life?

I know I'm overthinking what's meant to be a fluffy romantic fantasy, but I've just never found a premise like that which didn't strike me as too implausible to read -- or have too many unfortunate implications that made me feel skeevy.

[(Anonymous)]

I mean, if it's not your cup of tea, then it's not your cup of tea. But I'm always surprised when people are so against a trope like this because the can't with the premise. I like lots of kinds of tropes. I like soulmate AUs. But they're not the only ones I like. It's not like when I write a soulmate AU that I buy into the idea of being destined for one person only. It's just a "what-if" of that.

And it's fun!

What if there was someone out there just for you? Isn't the kind of a neat idea? To know that when you feel alone, at least one other person in the universe is kind of guaranteed to like you? Like, if I've just had the shittiest day ever; I'd like to drown myself in fluffy goodness. Why not have a little wish-fulfillment today? I know it's not realistic; that the appeal. On a better day, I may like seeing the soulmate trope utterly deconstructed; that's fascinating too!

I don't get people who are so troubled by the very idea of having someone you're destined for that they can't turn their brain off to enjoy that kind of "what-if" story. But, like I said, if it's not your cup of tea...

[(Anonymous)]

Snooooooowbabadush. Who cares read what you want.

[(Anonymous)]

I mostly find soulmate AUs squicky.

I mean, I'm not entirely against the narrative idea of two people being meant for each other. If it's just them repeatedly happening to end up together through several reincarnation cycles, then sure, whatever. But if the story involves something like your soulmate's name written on your skin, or anything where it's accepted that you'll know instantly when you meet them, that just skeeves me out.

I seem to be in the minority in this, but the idea of living your life waiting to meet one specific person that is the only right one in the world for you seems more distressing than desirable to me. Especially if other people can easily tell if you've met yours or not.

[(Anonymous)]

The various permutations of Soul Mate fics are getting ridiculous. I'll enjoy the occasional fic, but they're getting so ridiculous. Soul marks. First words. Name on body. Elaborate tattoo on body. You sprout a patch of hair the color of your soul mate's hair around your belly button. Ugh.

I'm expecting "Your soul mate's face is displayed in glorious technicolor on your left butt cheek, where you can't see it, so you will never know they're yours until they one day use your butt as a mirror!"

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, I'm not fond of soulmate AUs. It ruins the whole free will thing. I need my characters to have free will and actively make their own choices rather than doing something because they're told they should.

I'm not fond of prophecy stories either.

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

I like soulmate AUs in theory, but I find I want stories where the destined couple don't instantly fall in love, but have to still take time and get to know each other, and find out why they are soulmates, to be more interesting.