[ SECRET POST #3344 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3344 ⌋

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

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[It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia]


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03.
[The Vision/Wanda Maximoff (Marvel's The Avengers)]


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04.
[New Tricks]


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[One Punch Man]


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06.
[Karen Page, Daredevil (Netflix)]


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07.
[Gamer's Guide to Pretty Much Everything]


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08.
[Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D]


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09.
[Good Omens]


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10.
[J.K. Rowling]


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11.
[Ace Attorney 6]


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(Borderlands, Dameon Clarke)













Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 056 secrets from Secret Submission Post #478.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 1 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[fscom]

10. http://i66.tinypic.com/2ighzxt.jpg
[J.K. Rowling]

[(Anonymous)]

I don't keep up with UK politics or her twitter, but her interviews alone have made me lose respect for her as a person.

Even worse are the fans who treat you like you're an idiot with zero reading comprehension if you dare form your own interpretation of the books outside how JKR says you should read them.

[(Anonymous)]

And don't forget about the fans that attack and lash out at you if you so much as dare to offer a critique to her stories.
One of my friends once made a pretty calm and respectful post on how JK should of included more lgbt people. In less than a day, JK's rabid stans had attacked her and accused her of "pushing an agenda on Rowling "being a bad critic" and "being a bully."
Lmao I wish I was making this up.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't know enough about Scottish politics to have an opinion, but I actually think she's a Gryffindor - but that as with a lot of Gryffindors, that sometimes leads her to disregard the opinions, feelings and needs of others in name of the greater good. Look at how wrong Hermione could be.

I will say that saying wanting Scottish liberation was "Death Eaterish" was a bad move. WTF.

(For the record I actually LOVE JK Rowling. Most of the time.)

[(Anonymous)]

Liberation? Please. Scotland gets much more out of the Union than she gives. Please do the research. Want it for nationalist reasons? Sure, if you like. Posit yoursleves as oppressed? Folk will point and laugh.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm apparently that rare person who can separate a person from the stuff they create.

Then again, I'm not Scottish and don't understand Scottish politics very well outside of the headlines we do get in the US, so what do I know.

[(Anonymous)]

Honestly, I separate opinions from people. Almost everyone I know has said things I really, really didn't like.

[(Anonymous)]

You're one of the last three people on Earth with that ability. Congratulations.

(The Underground will be sending an escape carriage for you soon. Please stand by.)

[bio_obscura]

I think you made me realize why I hate her dwelling on HP so much. It's not because I resent her playing in her own sandbox, it's because the world she created is very incredibly simplistic, a true children's series in every sense, and the idea that she sees the world that way is obnoxious.

[(Anonymous)]

Well said! It seems like her entire worldview is black and white, good vs. bad, us vs. them.

+1

[(Anonymous)]

I hadn't thought of it in that way before, but you're right - that's what rubs me the wrong way about her.

[(Anonymous)]

The world she created is incredibly fucked up, and I think -- on balance -- she does realize that.

[bio_obscura]

I disagree. The world of HP is pretty sugar-coated. Which is fine; it's a children's book series. Make civil rights analogies with little elves with cute speech impediments. But, for the love of god, please do not continue seeing the world through the lens of that childish fantasy world.

[(Anonymous)]

Wizards -- even the good guys -- have been oppressing every other magical species and treating Muggles as subhuman for time immemorial, and there's no big sweeping change at the end. There's only one school and it sucks. Like, really, Hogwarts sucks so much.

I could go on but it's a day late and no one's reading this anyway.

[(Anonymous)]

I see you, nonny!

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah....I think that's the problem everyone has with her. Well put though, I never could have worded it that way.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm fine with reading J.K. Rowlings opinion on stuff. I just wish everyone else would take it as that. Why is everything in fandom always this person is my perfect cinnamon roll or this person is extremely problematic. They are people who have opinions. You won't agree with all of them. We have been doing this stupid cycle for years now. O Stephen Fry is so perfect, o Stephen Fry is a bipolar gay guy and said something stupid I'm so disappointed never meet your heroes.

[sabotabby]

This.

[ayumidah]

Yep.

[(Anonymous)]

Do they ever take you dancing? How much space is there on the pin?

[(Anonymous)]

HP is her product and legacy, and it's very much in her personal and financial interest to keep in culturally relevant, so...

[(Anonymous)]

Her financial interest? The woman already has more money than God. She's just attention whoring at this point.

[(Anonymous)]

This thread is stupid and most of you should feel stupid.
seriously how can you not get that she's the one who created that world and keeps getting asked to share her opinions as based on it. The Wizarding world is constricted as a simplified version of our own which makes it perfect for this kind of parallelization. That does not mean that her views are as simplistic. it's just an exaggerated commentary, like saying Trump is Mussolini, only using that specific world. (Seriously I don't even follow her twitter or read any of her other books...)
and paralleling nationalist populists with death eaters is not so far off the mark. Most people in the nsdap in Nazi germany were just profiteering and not actively murdering people. They aswell were only nationalists (who decided to look away when that nationalism turned into racism and genocide.) So having feelings like that toward nationalist movements is kind of understandable for European school teachers.

[bio_obscura]

I couldn't disagree more.

The world is a nuanced and complicated place. As someone upthread said, there is already a problem in both society and politics where everything is either a "perfect cinnamon roll" or horribly "problematic." A simplistic, extremely black and white children's book series is the last thing she or anyone else in the world should be using to make parallels and create even more divisions.