[ SECRET POST #3556 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3556 ⌋

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

01.
[Lord of the Rings trilogy]



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02.
[pride and prejudice; unnamed others]


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03.
[Endeavour]


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04.
[Tim Curry / Movies: IT, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Clue, Legend]


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05.


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06.
[Loud House]


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08.
[MST3K]














Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 19 secrets from Secret Submission Post #508.
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]

Official advertise your fandom-related event thread.

RULES FOR THIS:
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2. ONE POST PER USER under this thread.
3. What IS allowed: roleplay advertisements, fandom comms, fandom events, things like that.
4. What is NOT allowed: anything for profit, any kind of fic/art commissions, seeking 1-on-1 RP, that kind of thing.

[fscom]

Official clickables thread.

RULES FOR THIS:
1. NO huge images or columns of images that require scrolling, please.
2. ONE POST PER USER under in this thread.
3. If you're going to post, try to at least help the others.

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General comments:

(If the thread contains spoilery/triggery content please post as 2nd comment so it collapses!)

Inspired by #7

[(Anonymous)]

Did you ever roleplay in fandom? If so, what kind? Did you like it?

virgin writing sex over here

[(Anonymous)]

But what I really need are the logistics of post-sex. Because on one hand, I hear its so messy and bodily fluids ew strip and remake the bed, and on the other I guess some people just go to sleep right after.

So, generally speaking, how messy would you say PIV sex with condom (maybe a couple times) would be? Could you fuck, cuddle and sleep right after, or do you have to clean that mess up?

What are you looking forward to?

[philstar22]

Do you have anything coming up soon that you are excited about?

What are some interesting diseases?

[(Anonymous)]

Either rare or with interesting symptoms.

Who likes Lion King?

[(Anonymous)]

Because we're getting a reimagining
http://cdanews.com/2016/09/the-lion-king-being-reimagined-by-disney-and-jon-favreau/

Upcoming birthday question

[(Anonymous)]

What are good things for a sad loser with no (local) friends to do on their middle of the week birthday?

Can anyone recommend bed safe electric foot warmers?

[(Anonymous)]

I have terrible problems with cold feet in the winter. I've tired hot water bottles, and and microwavable rice pads I've had problems with both, so now I want to try electric foot warmers.

Any suggestions?

Rant thread

[sparrow_lately]

Because I'm really, really angry right now ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Changing Formats

[dani_phantasma]

For a while I've been planning to make my original work(Alike in Dignity) a webcomic, but the more I think about what it would take to make it a comic versus a visual novel, I'm starting to think that making it a visual novel might be better? Or at least easier?

I mean I'm looking at what it's going to take and.....working on parts of a visual novel all at once and releasing them instead of a comic seems more ...well more of an attractive option to me.

Buuuut I've been planning comic. I just feel like I look like such a big flake. I'm trying to find a format for my work that works best and that is best for me. I haven't started it yet. So I can always change plans, right?

What do you all do in when soaking in a bath?

[(Anonymous)]

I always get super bored and have to get out after 20 minutes. I don't want to bring my phone because I am afraid I'll drop it.

The voltron fandom is a wreck

[(Anonymous)]

http://nontoxicvoltron.tumblr.com/ptb

some dumb dweebs on tumblr made a list of "problematic" fans

fandom was a mistake

What do people take too seriously?

[(Anonymous)]

^^^^

How can I tell if someone is going into my house (who has a key) without permission?

[(Anonymous)]

Like...subtle traps and shit. Or, if anyone knows a good surveillance camera that doesn't cost a lot, that'd be cool too.

No Man's Sky

[caerbannog]

Sooo, did anyone end up buying it? I was turned off by the $80 price tag and general wariness of Sean Murray.

Glad I did so.

Here's the latest gossip:

https://www.engadget.com/2016/09/28/no-mans-sky-investigated-false-advertising/

/reader; /you

[(Anonymous)]

I just checked the Gotham section at AO3, 40 PERCENT of the suggested relationship filters are for character/you or character/reader.

WHY IS THIS A THING?

Why do porn apologists think being anti-porn is the same as being anti-sex?

[(Anonymous)]

Seriously, why? That's like saying if you don't like junk food you must be opposed to food in general.

[fscom]

Games thread!

Book club - GRACELING discussion!!!

[diet_poison]

It's here, it's here, the moment caerbannog has been waiting for!

Tell me your thoughts, F!S, and ask any questions you may have. I personally would be especially interested in how you think this book compares to other YA books, whether or not you are a fan of the genre, along with your thoughts on the characters and world(building).

Some thoughts and questions of my own are in a reply.

In addition: later this week (probably Friday) I'll start taking recs for November, so gather your ideas :)

Re: Book club - GRACELING discussion!!!

[diet_poison]

So I wasn't quite sure what to expect going into this book.

My first impression upon reading the synopsis was "wow so ~~~edgy". (I wasn't really wrong about that wrt the way Katsa's abilities were portrayed, imo.) I also immediately wondered how it would compare to books like The Hunger Games and Divergent. (For full disclosure, I liked both books, though THG more, and felt Divergent had more problems and the sequels had major issues. I'm a sucker for weird YA worldbuilding though.)

I also thought "the book will be bad and I'll like it anyway". I don't know if I'd call it bad, but it wasn't a masterpiece. I had a few issues with it, such as some problems with the prose (namely all the sentence fragments...wtf) and a few issues with the two main characters being basically superpowered compared to the rest of the cast, which I thought was highlighted rather than tempered by Katsa's Kryptonite in the form of King Leck. I do think the effect was tempered somewhat by the book treating their superpoweredness as something they genuinely struggled with at times, though.

That aside...I still liked the book and had fun reading it. I loved a few things in particular - the imagery, the dialogue (particularly how the main characters had very distinct speaking voices), and the details that were enough to be engaging without being distracting. I also liked the plot twist at the end with Po, which is to say it was kind of a gut punch, and made me sad lol.

My favorite character hands-down is Bitterblue, which makes me want to read the sequel solely because I know it is about her, though I'm not sure I will enjoy her character so much when she is 18. I also am not sure how I feel about reading about Bitterblue in a romance, especially one as tropey-sounding as the synopsis of her book makes me think it will be, but eh. I did like the romance between Katsa and Po, though. I mean, it was 110% predictable, but it still hit my buttons, heh.

Some thoughts on the characters...

Katsa: very stereotypical in some ways. I thought her "I will never get married/have kids!" was very similar to your stock YA heroine, though it was important to her character. I sort of hoped at the beginning that she'd change her mind about the former and marry Po, though I wanted her to stay without wanting kids. At the end though I feel it would send a bad message and mess up her character to have her change her mind at this point. I felt like she must have been way more fucked up psychologically than the way she was written given her past, so that was a bit weird. I liked her determination to see Bitterblue to safety, her forming of the Council to try to counteract Randa under his nose, and her choice to cut her hair and keep it that way.

Po: honestly, one of the few book characters I could see myself being fairly attracted to, if you make him out to be a bit less muscly than he probably is. I think he was supposed to have dark hair, but I kept imagining him with a complexion almost identical to Marik Ishtar from YGO, just with a less douchey face, gold-and-silver eyes, and shorter (a couple inches long) hair. Maybe it's the jewelry lol. Lienid culture was interesting to me and I liked how different it was from the rest of them, which makes sense since iirc that kingdom was on an island. He had the most interesting speaking voice, and was perhaps the most dynamic character. Him going blind kind of broke my heart.

Bitterblue: MY FAVE. She really was written as a child - a royal child, who knew how to take charge, but a child nonetheless, who was scared of men but began to trust them when Po earned her trust; who was scared of the weapons she held until taught to use them; who was scared of dying but pressed on because she had no other choice. Her scene right after Leck died was amazing, especially her line "I'm not a princess; I'm the queen of Monsea". She knew what was up lol.

Randa: I kinda thought he was going to be the "evil king" in the synopsis, but he turned out to be a mostly irrelevant douchebag. His main purpose was clearly for Katsa's character development. I hope he gets taken down in a sequel though; he's an asshole.

Raffin: can I take a minute to mention how much I love cousin relationships? Especially m/f ones? gaaah. Raffin and Katsa are great. Without Raffin I doubt Katsa would have stayed sane, and his intention to do what he wanted even if it pissed off his dad was charming.

Giddon: I really thought he might turn out to be an antagonist after how poorly he took Katsa's rejection. What a self-absorbed, idiotic shitweasel. I couldn't stand the way he talked to Katsa like he knew her better than she did, he needed her protection despite being literally the most dangerous person in the world, and how he treated her badly (always criticizing etc.) when supposedly in love with her. I still wonder if he'll turn up as a villain in a later book. He's a medieval Nice Guy and exactly the sort of personality type to take rejection as a personal slight. Well-written though, for that.

Leck: very good villain for being a psychological horror more than a physical one. The very idea of someone like him actually existing is creepy as all get out. Bitterblue's description of his psychological torture of her and Ashen with injured animals and servants was horrifying. :(

Those are a few of my thoughts - what are yours, F!S?

Re: Book club - GRACELING discussion!!!

[(Anonymous)]

I enjoyed it! I thought it was going to be a Mary Sue story, but it isn't, not really, despite the eyes. My main beef was with the pacing, which was uneven, I thought, starting very slow, and then the final confrontation was over in in a couple of pages. But the bits in the middle were great... OK, a lot of the rest was great as well.

I also had a bit of an issue with how Katsa managed to remain a good person despite all that her uncle required her to do; and why did he trust her around him at all? Another Grace-related bump in the road for me was the idea that not feeling pain is a survival trait, which it ain't.
I loved the very vivid descriptions of Monsea (the names in this story are something else!) And the voyage to the island and the lead-in to the final confrontation had me completely fooled – I actually gasped out loud when it turned out that he'd anticipated her move. Creepy guy. But I loved the way she stopped thinking clearly as soon as he got at her – that's very true to life.

Young Bitterblue is great – very royal and self-possessed when it comes to the crunch.

The ending was a bit Jane Eyre, I thought, but it was certainly a surprise to me!

All in all, I enjoyed it a lot.

Re: Book club - GRACELING discussion!!!

[caerbannog]

Oh my god I slept in IM HERE IM HERE.

The excerpt was very edgelord, I agree. So at the start I was a bit "hmm" at it was a bit clunky to start off with. Not overly bad, just the constant presence tense combined with some very short sentences. But either it smoothed out or I got used to it or it drew me in.

At the start I mostly liked Katsa when she was angry and not struggling with her moral dilemmas and confusions. I didn't like Po at all because he seemed to know too much but his Grace explained that. But the prose smoothed out a bit and I was enjoying it except for the obvious Katsa feelings about Po, I was kind of dreading that upcoming romance. It was mostly annoying and I felt it was interrupting the flow of the story the bit. But I did really like it didn't turn into a love triangle and she quickly rejected Gideon. Whom I didn't like much in his brief moments, but he was a pretty shallow character. So that was a relief.

The bits after that...her potential romance with Po quickly squashed into anger at his Grace - I superficially enjoyed those moments as she struggled with her anger, her thoughts, her morals and for some reason unlike the start of the book I preferred her introspections more this time around.

I really enjoyed the travelling bits, both to and from Leck's kingdom. And I was really pleased her Grace turned out to be Survival, not killing! I had thought earlier in the book it was weird that she was basically superpowered and not sleeping etc. I did like the few pages of her pondering the difference between her and average people. I wouldn't mind more of that stuff tbh, the acknowledgement that she is far beyond the others and learning how and why. I think it fed into her taking more care and empathy with Bitterblue versus Bitterblue's grandfather she nearly rescued into exhaustion. Just these two women/girls surviving is really checking a bunch of boxes for me. Especially when it got down to her mental plannings, her creations in ugly lion clothing, then running across a snowfield all day. Okay the last bit was a bit hmm, but no worse than many other overpowered-with-angst main characters so i'll let it slide.

Towards the end I felt it got clunky and stilted again. I'm thinking perhaps the author isn't that great with dialogue, or multiple characters on page, as that is when it seems to happen? Then they arrived at Po's castle and the ending happened, it was done. So the rest of it afterwards was pretty rushed I thought. I'm not sure how I feel about Po's blindness, my first thought on mention of his eyes was the knock to the head had disabled his grace or knocked it funny. Him seeing everything mentally I'm having difficulty swallowing.

I also disliked in the chapter straight after Leck's death the very first line made something like "and by nearly telling the truth Leck was killed" - too spoonfeeding for me.

Oh, I think I like Katsa's "I'll never marry" mantra, mostly because I identify with that desire for freedom and not being locked to one person :P

and while in the middle, her new emotional discoveries with conflict over Po were annoying me, towards the end I was okay with her crying and laughing and frustrations because it felt like all her experiences over the book had collected and helped her break out of the "stone" acting, not just her dramas with Po, but the physical and mental exhaustion of saving Bitterblue, Leck's short lived overpowerment etc etc.

Overall, looking forward to reading the next book that I conveniently have at my house. The store lady warned me Fire is the weakest in the trilogy and the third book, Bitterblue, is the best.

Characterwise, I really liked Katsa and Bitterblue. Po I became amendable to. I'd like to hear more on Po's mum? Especially on her reaction to Po's eyes? She seems a very head screwed on sort.

Questions!
There was a line that confused me, something about how if it was any other time and place the mountian lion would have killed her? That confused me a bit because she was, what, on a mountain in a snow storm basically taken by surprise. How is that a better chance of survival than healthy in an environment she is familiar with?

Also Bitterblue and Po's (Greening)'s name seem so different to others of their culture. I'm wondering if all of them have a colour themed name and are introduced by really short nicknames or if Bitterblue and Po are the exceptions? Because Bitterblue's name really stands out compared to the rest.