case: (Default)
Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2015-08-04 06:04 pm

[ SECRET POST #3135 ]


⌈ Secret Post #3135 ⌋

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

01.


__________________________________________________



02.
[Supernatural]


__________________________________________________



03.
[Floraverse]

__________________________________________________



04.


__________________________________________________



05.
[Star Trek: The Next Generation]


__________________________________________________



06.


__________________________________________________



07.


__________________________________________________



08.
[Bryan Cranston: Breaking Bad vs. Malcolm in the Middle]

__________________________________________________



09.


__________________________________________________



10.











Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 045 secrets from Secret Submission Post #448.
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.

(Anonymous) 2015-08-04 10:54 pm (UTC)(link)
That's frankly pretty stupid

WAIT LET ME FINISH

that's frankly pretty stupid because fantasy is a genre where, once you're sufficiently familiar with it, you can get an incredibly good idea of what a book is going to be like from the cover and description and style of the thing. So it's not really necessary to use a test like this to determine which books you're going to enjoy. That's really easy to figure out. And there are, on rare occasions, good fantasy books written by men.

Of course that's not to deny that (a) tons of fantasy sucks and (b) lots and lots of it is written by men or in particular that (c) a lot of the fantasy that is most prone to sucking is most likely to be written by many

because good lord is THAT absolutely the case

(Anonymous) 2015-08-05 01:10 am (UTC)(link)
...the cover?? Are you for real? Half the time the cover has nothing to do with what's between it! I do agree with the rest of your points, though.

(Anonymous) 2015-08-05 06:06 am (UTC)(link)
The cover does have to do with marketing, though, and who the publishers are aiming at. It can be a hint.

(Anonymous) 2015-08-05 06:02 pm (UTC)(link)
It doesn't tell you anything about the actual content and details of the story, but it tells you a great deal about what kind of story it is and what category you can shove it in to.

You can do a great deal of judging a book by its cover, in science fiction and fantasy.