[ SECRET POST #3145 ]

[case]

⌈ Secret Post #3145 ⌋

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

01.
[Girl With all the Gifts/She Who Brings Gifts]


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02.
[Hannibal]


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03.
[Rookie Blue]


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04.
[Gakuen Alice]


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05.


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06.
[Linkara, Atop the Fourth Wall]


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07.
[Rookie Blue]


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08.
[Dawes, "Things Happen"]


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09.
[Yukigumi, Sagiri Seina & Sakihi Miyu]


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10.
[Brooklyn Nine-Nine]


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11.
[Good Omens]


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12.
[Arrested Development]


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13. http://i.imgur.com/FckwG6x.jpg
[The Walking Dead (possibly spoilers), linked for gore (not real, but TV/Walking Dead-realism)]


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14. [SPOILERS for M:I - Rogue Nation]



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15. [SPOILERS for Warbreaker]



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16. [WARNING for "NSFW, Nudity, forced kink, general fuckeduppery"]
http://s9.postimg.org/bzl9zbv3j/fs_pparc_twnsfw_twnudity_twgeneralfuckeduppery.jpg
[Hunter x Hunter; linked because ? nudity/abuse/or something? and I'm not really sure what's going on here]


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17. [WARNING for rape]

[The Phantom Of The Opera, James Barbour]


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18. [WARNING for rape]

[Lupin III - The Woman Called Fujiko Mine]


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19. [WARNING for death]



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20. [SPOILERS for the Talos Principle]
[WARNING for suicide]













Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 00 pages, 000 secrets from Secret Submission Post #449.
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]

15. [SPOILERS for Warbreaker]
http://i.imgur.com/njd284A.png

[(Anonymous)]

I adore novels where the protagonists' expectations get turned on their heads, but yeah, Warbreaker didn't quite click in that trope the way I hoped it would. There was too much "ta-da!" about it all.

[(Anonymous)]

I disagree that the protagonists learned that it "wasn't really that bad." Lightbringer is proven right; Siri and the emperor (forget his name, it's been a while) end the book wanting to change the way their society is run; and Vivenna runs off with Warbreaker because she's learned that both societies are fucked up and wrong in their own way. The only thing that Siri and Vivenna learn isn't all that bad is magic.

I disagree about the mercenaries, too. It sucked that they turned out to actually be bad guys, and I wouldn't have minded them just having a strange sense of honor myself. That said, the reveal makes sense when looking back through the rest of the book, and it wasn't set up that way to present the neutral v. evil argument. It was set up that way to shatter Vivenna's naivete and selfishness and thrust her into a trial. You could argue there was a better way to tear the rug out from under her, but the mercenaries were there for the sake of her development, not for the sake of a speech.

[cloudtrader]

You know, I've been eyeing this series on Graphic Audio for a looooooong time and wondering if I should just bite the bullet and order it. Now I don't have to. Thank, OP!

[(Anonymous)]

I don't understand reactions like this.

[(Anonymous)]

It's a good adaptation, and I enjoyed listening to it, but I had problems with the book. But I don't regret getting the Graphic Audio version.

[(Anonymous)]

BS did this a bit in Mistborn too, where Vin gives the Lord Ruler a bit of a pass on his shitty empire after things go even more to shit.

[(Anonymous)]

They recognized why he did what he did, they didn't think he was just or did it well. It's like when old Italians talk about Mussolini and how stable everything was during his rule while still acknowledging he was a crazy dictator.

Christ, are you people unable to understand anything that isn't black and white and spelled out for you? Do villains have to be totally cut-and-dried and subhuman?

[(Anonymous)]

lol where I live 15 is totally legal age and half the people I know did it around that time, including with people older than them, and one with an older celeb. they're all fine, their sex partners were all fine, our law's fine with it. I get that the law's the law but please stop with the child molester!!!1! if it's a sexually mature girl who (like you're saying) "offered".

[thistlechaser]

I think you're in the wrong thread, anon. :P

[(Anonymous)]

I never though I'd say this, but people here are literally too stupid for Brandon Sanderson novels. And that's a pretty low bar, because they aren't complex or even all that original.

[(Anonymous)]

Why do you think they are too stupid?

[(Anonymous)]

hmmm yes, good point, clearly we're just not intelligent enough for sophisticated literature like the works of Brandon Sanderson

well-observed, that's the only explanation for us not liking them

*raises fedora in respect*

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, when the mercenaries turned out to be evil, I was like "Really?" and then the twist at the end where we find out the other villains was like "Wow, you really like this trope. Twice in the same book? Sigh."

I could kind of see it coming, but I hoped I was wrong.

It's similar in his Alcatraz and the Evil Librarians book too. Sanderson really likes playing with the "What are the things I can do to get the reader to be sympathetic to this character, then do something to smash the expectations I just set up?" thing. It gets old. At least for me.