[ SECRET POST #3474 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3474 ⌋

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

01.
[Hide and Seek by Imogen Heap]



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02. http://i.imgur.com/8Lfgcp8.jpg
[A Game of Thrones, Tyene Sand; link because OP warned for nudity]


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03.
[Independence Day]


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04.
[Queen at Arms]


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05. [repeat]


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06. [WARNING for underage/shota]

[Boku no Pico]


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07. [SPOILERS for Game of Thrones]



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08. [WARNING for incest]
[WARNING for rape]



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09. [WARNING for gore, torture]
















Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 00 pages, 00 secrets from Secret Submission Post #496.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 1 2- too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

Looking for fic

[(Anonymous)]

Okay, things are miserable, so I am looking for some genuinely real feelgood science fiction (pref original fiction/novels). Not "but there is a hopeful message underneath", not "if you look at it a certain way", not "and eventually everyone will be happy", no. I am looking for something genuinely upbeat and hopeful with nothing deconstructed or reconstructed or post-moderned, meta'd, reinterpreted, or any of the other bullshit labels slapped on grimdark feelbad dark-gritty nihilistic slapped on crap to make the reader feel more sophisticated.

I just want old fashioned upbeat goodies versus baddies, perhaps even utopian tales. Can anyone recommend that? Please? I've had enough unrelenting misery and nastiness over the last month to last a lifetime. I want something with some basic human kindness and wonder in it.

Re: Looking for fic

[(Anonymous)]

Sorry, could you clarify: are you looking more for escapist adventure and thrills, or uplifting life affirming paeans to the human spirit

Neither is bad I'm just not sure what you want

Re: Looking for fic

[(Anonymous)]

As long as it comes under the banner of science fiction, although Space Opera or Spaceship based would be preferred. Maybe something with robots. Or with space elves. Or regular elves.

Re: Looking for fic

[(Anonymous)]

Boundary series by Eric Flint and Ryk Spoor. It's a good old "YEAH SCIENCE YEAH DISCOVERY" type series. The second has too much politics to be my favorite (I think it's the second I'm thinking of) but the third has my very favorite first contact situation in all of science fiction, and the fourth is a stand alone space version of Swiss Family Robinson which makes me incredibly happy.

Some of the Star Trek novels also might do you :I especially recommend the Janus Gate Trilogy and the Rihannsu series.

Re: Looking for fic

[(Anonymous)]

Star Trek TNG and TOS

I would HIGHLY recommend the film Star Trek: The Voyage Home. It's exactly what you describe, not a single bit of gritty edgy deconstruction in it except a couple wink-winks about time-loop paradoxes. It's a mixture of a) idealism and assurance that the future is glorious and wonderful and within reach, and b) general hilarity about people from the future being stranded 300 years in the past (ie, 1980s San Francisco).

I also recommend the film Star Trek TNG: First Contact. It's main message (especially the ending) is a straight-up paen to human idealism, hope and possibility for the future, the thrill and hope of scientific ingenuity, and growth and openmindedness and outreach to other species and friendly aliens (it's about humankind's first ever interstellar spaceflight and subsequent first contact with Vulcans). However...in the beginning and middle of the film, a lot of the plot is about hive-mind aliens trying to turn the human race into mindless drones by going back in time, and the main character (Picard) going kind of crazy in his hatred of them, and this part is rather nasty and violent so....IDK.

Also, maybe The Martian? It's not space opera at all, it's very hard sci-fi that's barely sci-fi, more like a fictional story about regular real-life space travel with only a few minor speculative/sci-fi elements to it.