[ SECRET POST #3675 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3675 ⌋

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

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[Space Jam]


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[Cameron Diaz]


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[Miscellaneous animated movies, Zootopia and Kung Fu Panda shown]


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[Samurai Jack, The Powerpuff Girls]


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[A Series of Unfortunate Events, Violet/Count Olaf]








Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 00 pages, 15 secrets from Secret Submission Post #525.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 1 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[fscom]

03. http://i.imgur.com/ptLQnaC.png

[(Anonymous)]

Sheep really were tiny, right up until the Agrarian Revolution. Same goes for most livestock, tho' horses had to be pretty big, obv.

Yay for the Tres Riches Heures!

[(Anonymous)]

I assume there's probably some variance depending on the use they were being put to? Like, milk animals would be different from meat animals or animals being raised for wool?

[(Anonymous)]

Don't forget tallow for lamps. The best fat for candles came from the tails of sheep. Modern western breeds no longer have the fat tails required though, some middle eastern and central asian breeds do though. Google fat tailed sheep, they look weird.

[(Anonymous)]

Horses could be small too. A lot of historians think that the mounted knights of the Norman period and earlier were more like ponies or the primitive Przewalski's horse.

[(Anonymous)]

Yes, this! The viking horses were tiny compared to modern day ones. Actually, we know exactly how they looked, as the Icelandic horses are descendants. The legs of tall people riding on them only just clears the ground of some of them.

Which makes movies like The 13th Warrior where the vikings make fun of a small Arabian horse hilarious. They Arabian horses were not large, but they were bigger than the ones vikings had.

[(Anonymous)]

small sheep = lambs, perhaps?

[(Anonymous)]

Proper perspective and accurate representation in art is something that is pretty much a modern thing. Don't get hung up on sheep size on old paintings.

[(Anonymous)]

I love that all the comments are about the sheep.

[(Anonymous)]

The secret isn't about sheep?

[sparrow_lately]

+100

[(Anonymous)]

Hey, the secret definitely leaves you thinking about sheep!

[sabotabby]

The sheep bit is more interesting.

I guess the humans of the time were on the shorter side, too (re: comments about horses above)? I admit I don't know much about this.

[(Anonymous)]

IA. I didn't like the episode but I liked how they left the characters, it was pretty ambiguous. There are a few little things that call back to the first episode and they have kind of come full circle. I can see how both Sherlolly and Johnlock shippers might be excited and think of the ep as a step in the right direction, but there's nothing that permanently sinks any ship.

I ship John/Sherlock myself and while it would have been fun to get more for them (especially if this turns out to be the last episode ever), I was alright with this ending. In fact, the final montage was one of my favorite bits of S4, aside from the cheesy voice-over. I like the idea of back to basics again. But with a baby this time.

Tbh, I think most of the shipping drama surrounding the ep comes from the TJLC-ers (and their opponents, I guess). I feel for them, I really do, but who puts all their hopes/dreams/whatnot onto a tv show? Even if they had gotten what they had wanted, it probably would have felt hollow, because there's no way it could have lived up to expectations.

[(Anonymous)]

It's best not to feel too bad for TJLC people. They propagate real nastiness

[sparrow_lately]

I would agree with you if I thought the writers cared that much about their fans' ship feelings.

[(Anonymous)]

sheep feelings. i have them

[(Anonymous)]

Uh, not if you shipped John and Mary.

I don't think they were really looking to tell Johnlock shippers it was possible either, they've been writing both Sherlock and John as interested exclusively in women.

[(Anonymous)]

They've been writing john that way, anyway.....

[(Anonymous)]

John, maybe. Sherlock, not so much. And they gave us Parentlock, I don't see how you can say it wasn't possible that they were throwing the Johnlock shippers a bone.

[(Anonymous)]

The fate of John/Mary was already clear before this episode.

[(Anonymous)]

IA but you're on dangerous ground here. The True Believers will turn on you.

[(Anonymous)]

I would argue they've been writing Sherlock as ambiguously asexual-ish. I mean, YMMV on whether the thing with Irene was sexual from Sherlock's side. For my money, it felt very inconclusive one way or the other.

[(Anonymous)]

"Deliberately intended"? Lol no. When will all the shippers understand that the creators are NOT INTERESTED in your ship(s)?

[arcadiaego]

I don't watch Sherlock, but I thought you'd like to know the last line made me snort water up my nose because I wasn't expecting it. :D