[ SECRET POST #3234 ]

[case]

⌈ Secret Post #3234 ⌋

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

01.
[Golden Girls]


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02.
[Boku no Hero Academia]


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03.
[C.S. Lewis vs. J.R.R. Tolkien]


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04.
[Pokémon, Leah Remini]


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05.
[Tales of Zestiria]


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06.
[The Man In The High Castle]


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07.
[Marjorie Liu, Sana Takeda, Monstress]


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08.
[Sleepy Hollow]








Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 020 secrets from Secret Submission Post #462.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 2 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[fscom]

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[fscom]

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General comments:

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

[fscom]

Games thread!

[kallanda_lee]

You could do worse as far as life goals go, just saying.

[(Anonymous)]

This shouldn't be a secret, OP. This is what we should all aspire to!

[kallanda_lee]

I agree about the writing style at the very least.

[kallanda_lee]

I approve of this secret.

[(Anonymous)]

That does look intriguing...

Controversial Opinions

[(Anonymous)]

Let's get this night started!

[leikomgwtfbbq]

I watched the Golden Girls all day every day in high school when I was stuck at home, and it had such a profound positive effect on my life! I didn't have any friends at school, and a lot of the time, I wasn't even in school, so I was very isolated and alone, but the Golden Girls helped, and they taught me a lot of the things I hold so dear as an adult.

So it's a damn worthy friendship/life goal to have!

[philstar22]

I disagree. Lewis's writing style is very child-like to me. His stuff is okay, but it is very clearly young adult (at least Narnia), and even his other stuff isn't my cup of tea. I actually really like Tolkien's writing style. This wasn't always true, but it grew on me and now I wouldn't change a thing.

Little things that have made you happy

[philstar22]

What little things have made you happy today or this week?

[kallanda_lee]

hello is that femdom?

[gobbledigook]

Yeah, it's cool, but it kinda got drowned out by all of the problems that blew up with the game release. We can only hope they won't think of restricting stuff like this in the future games due to the bad reception Zestiria got. :^|

[(Anonymous)]

Soooooo is anyone gonna talk about how the Fallout mythos is constructed around some deeply conservative right-wing ideological assumptions?

[(Anonymous)]

Well, first, I strongly disagree with everything you've said here that is positive about Lewis' writing. Second, I don't find Tolkien's writing dry at all. But those are subjective things.

Third, I would argue seriously that Lewis trying to write Lord of the Rings would have been a complete and total disaster, because Lewis' ideas, themes, aesthetics, and writing style but most especially his tone as a writer are so wholly at odds with the whole project of Lord of the Rings. It seems radically incompatible to me. Lewis doesn't have the same sense of age and time and doom that Tolkien did; he doesn't have quite the same aesthetic sensibility even for the England-y Shire bits, and he has nowhere close to the sensibility for the heroic saga bits. He would not have been capable of writing a character like Aragorn; I'm not sure he would have been capable of writing a character like Frodo.

It's possible to imagine Lewis' take on Tolkien, but God - why would you want to?

Re: Little things that have made you happy

[philstar22]

There have been 3 new chapters from one of my favorite authors including a new chapter to my current favorite fic and one new one-shot of my favorite OTP with one of my favorite kinks that rarely shows up in fics which just came out a few minutes ago and I'm still smiling about and about to read again.

Re: Little things that have made you happy

[(Anonymous)]

My supervisor at work telling me I did a really good job with something.

[(Anonymous)]

Well, tell me more about your theories, if that's what you think.

That sinking feeling ...

[cbrachyrhynchos]

When you don't have access to what you wrote because you forgot to turn on Dropbox.

And WTF. I need one paragraph to close out this Imoen/Dynahier story I've been thrashing on for the last two days.

[(Anonymous)]

As much as I wish it was true, it isn't. They aren't a canon couple. Canon soulmates, yes, but not a couple.

Re: Controversial Opinions

[(Anonymous)]

CS Lewis is kind of a crappy writer, and also he seems personally annoying to me. He just always comes across as incredibly smug and self-satisfied and kind of shallow. Cannot stand CS Lewis.

[(Anonymous)]

I think it's definitely a matter of opinion. I like Tolkien's writing and I think his style is exactly what is needed for the story he's telling. Same for Lewis. There's gravitas and weight in Tolkien's writing style that helps the weight of the story. But whether you find it "entertaining" is completely subjective. I would say, though, that you might not find the story as entertaining in Lewis' style as I don't think he could capture the history and depth of the world and the stakes of the ring quest, which would drastically change the story that's being told.

I do agree about Lewis' allegory being ham-fisted. I always enjoy reading about the different notes and opinions each writer had about the other, and when they discussed their different writing projects. I really like their friendship. :)

[cbrachyrhynchos]

You mean, beyond being a pastiche of Cold-War red menace propaganda?