[ SECRET POST #3521 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3521 ⌋

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

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[World of Warcraft: Legion]


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03.
(Fallout 4)


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04.
[Doctor Who - 12/Clara]


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05.
(The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy)


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06.
[Bojack Horseman]


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07.
[Criminal Minds]


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08.
[Elite: Dangerous]


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[Street Fighter]












Notes:

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Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

Re: Worst positive headcanons/interpretations of characters you love

[(Anonymous)]

Ick. I've never liked the idea of Elrond viewing Maglor as a dad (or worse as his real dad since Earendil isn't good enough) but I'm finding that the fans who like Maglor-as-Elrond's-dad headcanon are turning me off of any Maglor and Elrond relationship.

It smacks of the same Feanorian apologizism that excuses the Feanorians of the First Kinslaying.

Re: Worst positive headcanons/interpretations of characters you love

[(Anonymous)]

ayrt

I'm mostly pissed because I LOVE the Elrond/Maglor relationship (and I like, but am by no means a stickler for, the idea Elrond viewed him as a father figure) precisely because it's so delicate and tricky and hard to define and strikes such a precarious balance and has so many contradictory aspects to push and pull it in multiple directions, and bullshit like this is just like flinging all that delicate tricky nuance into a crude, simplistic heap.

But yeah the Feanorian apologism taints a lot of my interaction with fandom surrounding the Feanorians too. It's often an unpleasant surprise to see something believably and interestingly positive about one of the Feanorians, only to later find out the fan who wrote it was coming from a "The Feanoriams are the REAL victims" stance rather than a "people are so multi-faceted and can both do good things and do unforgivably evil things" stance.

Re: Worst positive headcanons/interpretations of characters you love

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah. I used to really like Maglor's relationship with Elrond and Elros. Like you said, it was complicated and messy but I liked to see Elrond's compassion even back then and to see Maglor (and I always add Maedhros because in the original drafts it was him, not Maglor, who was the one with Elrond) have this little bit of redemption.

However, I never read them as seeing Maglor as a father and when I first encountered this headcanon, I had a visceral nope reaction. But I was live-and-let-live about it for awhile. Sadly, I've now come to associate it with Feanorian Apologists (sorry, I know that's not you) and they've completely ruined the Maglor and Elrond relationship for me. It was sweet and interesting once and now I don't want to touch it with a hundred-foot-pole. :(

Re: Worst positive headcanons/interpretations of characters you love

[(Anonymous)]

ayrt

I know the feeling, fandoms have done that sort of thing to me before too :\