[ SECRET POST #3509 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3509 ⌋

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

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["Fangirl" by Rainbow Rowell (with a mention of "Carry On" by Rainbow Rowell)]


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04. [repeat]


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05. [SPOILERS for The Lunar Chronicle]



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06. [SPOILERS for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child]



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07. [SPOILERS for Stranger Things]



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08. [SPOILERS for FMA]



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09. [WARNING for non-con, RPF?]

[Supernatural]


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10. [WARNING for rape, suicide]















Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 00 pages, 00 secrets from Secret Submission Post #501.
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]

07. [SPOILERS for Stranger Things]
http://i.imgur.com/XWqPjx5.jpg

[atalantapendrag]

I was baffled too - everyone seemed to immediately know that a skinny prepubescent kid with a buzzcut in a baggy hospital gown who barely spoke was a girl and it just didn't make sense to me.

[wannabe_influential]

I didn't even know she was a girl at first until a few episodes in

[kamino_neko]

Huh? The only people who didn't mistake her for a boy before the makeover were the boys.

[(Anonymous)]

You are nitpicking tbh

[(Anonymous)]

I kind of agree, but I liked the makeover scene. The boys knew how to use makeup and set a wig, they were having a nice time doing it and the only questionable choice was the dated dress.

[kaijinscendre]

Which also makes sense because Eleven was wearing Nancy's old clothes. :D

[(Anonymous)]

You're also forgetting the show takes place in small town America in the 80s. It wouldn't occur to the kids to dress a girl like a boy.

Although I agree that they should have gone with a hoodie and jeans.

[(Anonymous)]

I have to disagree with that. I grew up in a small farm town in the 80s. When you're prepubescent it doesn't freaking matter what clothes you wear and you often wore your big brother's hand-me-downs. Me and my friends got mistaken for boys all the time and there was no issue about it. People were actually less uptight about strict gender roles in the 80s than they are *now*, which is totally weird to me, but true.

[(Anonymous)]

LOL! I grew up in small town America in the 80s, and I'm afraid you're quite wrong. It's not even "dress her as a boy", it's just "dress her as many girls would've been dressed i.e. jeans and a t-shirt and sneakers". She would've looked like a boy whether or not they'd intended her to, but trust me, we knew about tomboys back then.

[(Anonymous)]

I disagree -I think it's a way better disguise than dressing as a boy. The Big Bads were looking for a girl with a buzzcut and would probably be on alert for people reporting a boy acting strangely.

[kaijinscendre]

Didn't even think to that! Good point.

[iggy]

This was my thought exactly.

[cbrachyrhynchos]

The plot point of El trying to pretend to be a normal girl for a day made for a nice psychological character beat and set up her Frankenstein moment at the lake later in the series.

[(Anonymous)]

This! You've articulated something I was grasping at in my mind but couldn't quite pull together.

Plus, the scene is also an important beat in the development of Mike and Eleven's relationship. It gives us the "Pretty. Good" moment, for one. It also allows Mike and El to interact in a way that is...hm...let's say youthfully innocent, yet also containing the first stirrings of sensuality.

Plus, as someone else said up thread, it's a better disguise because the people looking for her won't be looking for a girl who looks like a girl.

[(Anonymous)]

As a short-haired girl in the early 80s, the same age as the kids in the show, I think it could have gone either way and made sense to put her in a t-shirt and jeans and a baseball cap, but I thought the scene was meant to signal that Mike definitely thought of her as a girl.

I used to get PISSED about comments when I was a kid too, a boy in 5th grade asked me (snottily) if I was a lesbian and I told him that I liked boys...just not him.

Then I probably said FACE! and DOY! I remember that he never said anything rude to me again, though.

[(Anonymous)]

What does FACE! mean? Never heard that retort before.

[cbrachyrhynchos]

That's not as bad as passing off Georgia as Indiana.

[(Anonymous)]

lmao

As someone from Indiana, this.

[kamino_neko]

It actually amused me that she kept getting mistaken for a boy before this point...and to my eye, this was the first time she actually LOOKED boyish.

[(Anonymous)]

okay but...she wanted to dress up and liked being pretty

[bio_obscura]

Yeah, I too wondered why the hell they didn't just give her some of their own clothes and try to pass her as a boy. Kid logic + the wig was funnier, I guess.

[(Anonymous)]

I've never seen Stranger Things, but I immediately thought the person in your secret was a boy wearing a dress. wth.