[ SECRET POST #3400 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3400 ⌋

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

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02.
[The Secret of Crickley Hall]


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03.
[Longmire]


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04.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiKj0Z_Xnjc]


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05.
[Great British Bake Off]


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06.
[The West Wing]


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07.
[Kim Possible]


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08.
(Free! Iwabi Swim Club)


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09.
[Hyper Light Drifter]


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10.
[Sword of Truth]


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11.
[Count Cain/Godchild and Kuroshitsji]


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12.
[Discworld]


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13.
[assassination classroom]


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14.
[Monster Pop!]


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15.
["Magical Diary: Horse Hall" and "Harry Potter”]


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16.
[Silmarillion]


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17.
[Once Upon a Time]








Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 04 pages, 084 secrets from Secret Submission Post #486.
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

[(Anonymous)]

Nothing was meant to, nor will it ever be, canon.

uh lol no. Of course they aren't going to make it canon. but um yes it was absolutely "meant to be" written with homoerotic subtext. You can't say the show deliberately put in fanservice and fujoshibait and then say they weren't "meant to be", those are opposite sentences.

Anyone who watches this show and doesn't think just once that maybe the creators intended it to be a little bit gay, is a funny kind of person.

[type_wild]

Free! belongs to a genre that uses boys sharing emotional moments for the same effect that women have sex with each other in mainstream porngraphy. It's not about the great purpose of the story (in this case, friendship), it's about the superficial elements that the audience find titilating (in this case, fujobait).

[(Anonymous)]

I don't see how your comment refutes anything AYRT said though. Of course the show is emotional, homosocial (and at points, barely concealed homoerotic) blackmail, because that's a hugely popular genre in Japan PLUS it gets imported to the West and makes a shitton of money here as well. Just because one can admit Free! and pretty much all of it's subtext and overdramatic BS (nearly grown young man with a massive crying problem LOOK EMOTIONSSSS, lololz there's only one bed, very first fight under the fireworks!!!11!!!, etc) is absolutely cheap cash grabs doesn't mean that they didn't intend for it to be literally everything this fandom seems to love it for, two-bit subtext and all. The AYRT simply said it's ridiculous when people start bitching about "nothing will ever be canon" because come on, anybody watching this show can see the subtext and exactly what they wanted you to ship at any given point (and yes, it did change throughout the series run in my opinion, I thought it was obvious Rin/Haru was supposed to be the main pairing and MakoHaru was put there for secondary fanservice for those who aren't into rival pairings, and then Makoto and Mako/Haru in particular just skyrocketed in popularity in Japanese fandom and they totally switched gears).

[type_wild]

The AYRT simply said it's ridiculous when people start bitching about "nothing will ever be canon" because come on, anybody watching this show can see the subtext and exactly what they wanted you to ship at any given point

The point being that there is a difference between the creators knowing what kind of parings that a certain subset of the fangirls goes gaga over, and the creators actually portraying these pairing as a reality within the story. I'd buy the portrayal of makoharu as romantic if not for the Sidney episode (complete w. hilarious sharing of bed), if not for everything that is Rin and Rei across both seasons, if not for the biggest relationship development of ES, which happens between Haru and Sousuke in the bloody extra episode. Makoto and Haru's wonderful friendship isn't a subtly portrayed same-sex romance, it's fanservice.

[(Anonymous)]

...Did you even read their comment. NOTHING WAS MEANT TO BE CANON. Fanservice is not canon. Haru and Rin slept in the same fucking bed, and they are not "meant to be canon" either. Nagisa told Haru he loves him, using the very super strong 'aishiteru', and they are not meant to be canon.

Meant to be written with subtext =/= meant to be canon, plz read.

[(Anonymous)]

Did YOU read the comment I replied to? And the "they are just friends" and claims that the gay wasn't written in there?

try again. read that comment, then read my reply, then get back to me.