[ SECRET POST #488 ]

⌈ Secret Post #488 ⌋

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Secrets Left to Post: 06 pages, 150 secrets from Secret Submission Post #070.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 1 - broken links ], [ 1 2 3 - not!secrets ], [ 1 - not!fandom ], [ 1 2 - too big ], [ 1 - posted twice ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

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06. I-I think I love you for this secret. ♥

Really, it's kinda funny this should crop up now, since I just wrote a huge paper for my senior seminar on a similar issue -- intimate female relationships in the Victorian era and how loads of scholars absolutely insist that there was no way any of it was sexual at all, EVER. The "no lesbians before 1900" argument, one writer calls it. Just because it wasn't talked about (or was severely repressed) doesn't mean it didn't exist, dammit. (Though on the flip side, I can see why people would be hesitant to make claims about specific people.)

09. ME TOO. Actually, I usually read it more like "Kingdom Hearts Rants," and, well... almost the same thing, really.

12. Is this the "stop making characters who are (perceived by me as) straight gay (because I can't possibly envision them that way)!" thing again? :/ Just because a character only has heterosexual relationships on-screen doesn't mean s/he can't be attracted to people of his/her own sex, y'know.

13. CCS is absolutely adorable, and I'd definitely recommend it if you're into cutesy romantic fluff. As far as TRC, well... the soundtrack's fantastic. Can't really vouch for the rest, though; I haven't been exposed to much CLAMP.

15. I've said it before and I'll say it again: Because canon pairings are boring. Slash, het, femslash, whatever, it holds true. There's less room to work with 'em, and sometimes they're handled absolutely miserably.

Oh, and shounen series are more widely available than yaoi series because they appeal to a wider audience (read: non-slashers). Also, they're about fifteen times as long, which helps.

33. Damn, I can see why. Well done.

45. There are lots of anime with plots that make sense. AC was just gratuitous fanservice ~~meant to hook people into the Compilation cash cow, and holy gods did it ever work~~. It makes no sense without the background of FFVII, and even with that background it... still really doesn't make much sense. And yeah, there are plenty of anime with plots like that, but still.

......also, why the hell is FF8 on there? Definitely not anime.

48. Sounds like you need to take a step back from all your slash-obsessed friends and clear your mind for a week or two. Go on sabbatical. 'Cause it seems like you're taking your resentment towards them out on gay people, and that is just not fucking cool.

...Also, you might want to find better friends. Or at least tell the ones you have that look, YOU DON'T WANT TO TALK ABOUT SLASH.

50. I fucking love that picture, ahahaha.

51. This is why I just say "I don't like mecha anime" and leave it at that. (Well, except Escaflowne. But I dunno, that was still fantasy enough that it didn't bore me like most mecha series do.)

53. HELL YES. Linguistics FTMFW.

56. Ugly? Wha?

58. All I have to say is

icor is my hero for writing the world's first Cissnei/Aeris porn. ♥ GO READ IT (http://community.livejournal.com/skystones/6033.html). YOU KNOW YOU WANT TO.

Not!Secret 1: I know, right? At least find someone whose hair fits the description.

Too Big 2: Seriously? Why? She and Cuddy are two of the least annoying women on there.

Okay, first-off, yes, people who have straight relationships can also have gay ones. But the thing is, with TV shows or books or any sort of creative media, you have characters who have straight relationships because that's how the author/creator is writing them. Unless the purpose of the project is a dissertation on the nature of percieved sexuality, or they start having gay relationships later on, odds are high that the character is actually straight.

Secondly, I don't care if people like yaoi/slash/bi/het/whatever. I really don't, ship what you want, have a blast. I just wish that the yaoi/slash wasn't so prevailent that I could actually find stuff in my fandoms that I wanted to read/look at/what have you without having to spend hours combing through pages of stories/pictures/etc. I'm just venting frustration, never claimed to be a saint.

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athousandwinds.livejournal.com - 2008-05-08 20:42 (UTC) - Expand

Father Ted rocks my socks! It's one of the most hilarious shows I've ever seen. :D

56. lolololol oh it's just like I'm on /v/

~~Ike's worse than Pit, in that respect. HURR.~~

Said this in replies, but...

My Uncle Fred lied about his age in his teens so he could get into the Navy during WWII. Reason? He was gay and he needed to leave home so he could have a gay life. And he had quite a fine one. Alas, he passed away before protease inhibitors (fucking HIV)...

I miss him a lot.

erastes has a blog somewhere about historical gay romance.

you did your fandom justice...

#6, damn skippy!
#43, I friggin' loved Pirates 3.
The scene you mention and the parley scene with Keith Richards music, gets me everytime.
Own it and tell the naysayers to shove off.

15. AMEN YO. Real BL stuff needs appreciation for being ACTUAL BL rather than fabricated slash.

46. I MUST know where that came from! XD It made me giggle, too.

62. I don't wanna quit it.. Shota is my anti-drug~

15. hints
17. anne rice already did it
39. ahahaha ahahahaha ah ha hahahahahahahaha. i am not laughing because i am some blind gin worshipper (far from it), i am laughing because it took you this long to figure out what she was really like.

Edited 2008-05-08 06:08 (UTC)

Do you dislike her or something?

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maids.livejournal.com - 2008-05-08 16:42 (UTC) - Expand

Great show it was, but I have difficulties seeing a fandom working for it.

56. OK, maybe I just haven't played enough rounds, but I thought he seemed reasonable. Then again, I've just been watching for weeks and only picked up a controller again on Saturday. I mainly use Kirby and as a second I use Pit, but that's because I'm kinda lame and can only deal with five-jump characters.

God damnit i fucking love /a/, but i had to block it because i literally spend hours upon hours on that board, and i have exams and and...;_; i miss it so much ;_;

I dooon't think you're 'starting to hate guys', dude i think you're just fed up with all the slash possibly ruining series for you?
Take a break from your friends for a while.

Dear person behind secret 48,

Slash is not an accurate depiction of gay life. It's primarily written by heterosexual females who quite often can't manage to write convincing romance as a whole, let alone something involving 2 people of the opposite (in relation to the reader) sex, in a relationship with completely different dynamics of that of a heterosexual couple. Much like Mary Sues are not an accurate depiction of heterosexual relationships (although I would say slash is even further off the mark). I'm a gay person and even I'm put off by most slash.

Basically it's the lesbian porn of the fan fiction world. Learn how to separate fan fiction from reality.

22 - I think the writers/creator were too lazy to flesh out the character. I liked Bella and thought she was very much underused. There was so much that could be done with her but for whatever reason they introduced a character and didn't do much with her. It's really a pity.

48 - Sounds like the problem is you don't want to hear details about sex more than anything else. Please don't become a homophobe, the world has too many of them as it is.

12 I feel exactly the same.

45 LOL! No anime plot makes sense whatsoever? Yeah right....I myself find the plots to make sense thank you very much.

FATHER TED SECRET!! :D

STFU BITCH!
(ILU)

SLAG!!!!

6. YESPLZ.

9. I do that sometimes 8D

15. Probably because they are ongoing?
But anon's right, it is unfair for the BL fandom :\

19. LOL

25. OMGOMGOMGYESSSSSS

41. Same here, especially because of his fanarts ;A;

62. I WISH I COULD QUIT TOO.

HAVE YOU MET

yassen_alex?

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colorcapsule.livejournal.com - 2008-05-08 13:19 (UTC) - Expand

46- Oh my God, a FATHER TED secret!!! My friend and I have been fans of that for YEARS! In fact, we ate raisins yesterday and spent the afternoon saying "It's got cocaine in it! Wait a minute, what am I goin' on about? Whats the word... raisins!"

54: I FUCKING LOVE PUCK. D: Also lol, same boat.

I don't like talking about symbolism anyway because of the way we were made to do so INCESSANTLY in school. It ruined a lot of things for me, I don't want that to happen again. :c

64: THANK YOU <3

Edited 2008-05-08 09:09 (UTC)

01. Nein my friend, you are not alone. I too sadface whenever I think about how I wanted it to end PROPERLY, and what happened instead. I' sadfacing right now, in fact. ;_;

03. ... I have nothing to say to most pairing shippers, I just want to know why on EARTH you wanted to weave that into conversation at all. I mean... this is stuf you talk about with people on the internet. Not real life... unless you are me and my friends, who have long since abandoned any notions of us having good taste, but still.

13. Haha oh god, I can not imagine that being a good way to judge stuff. I mean, not that's it's a BAD method, looking at a series in a methodical way and see all the plottwists laid bare and clinical can be a great way to reach clarity, but... it's Wikipedia. There's really no guarantee it's quality articles you're reading.

16. I have never seen that show, but the picture alone makes me willing to agree. Or at least place him pretty high up there.

32. I have no idea what it is, but hot dang it looks like hawt shippings. Shut up it's a kink alright. What's the series name?

52. Now listen re buddy, romance ain't ever gonna happen in One Piece. Word of Oda, far as I heard. But jeebus christ, I can't imagine ANYONE laughing if you wrote fic! They're supersweet with each other, and I would die from cuteness overload but Laugh? No way Jose. THis is One Piece fandom, we should THRIVE on adorable stuff like this, not shun it. Write I say, write until your hands bleed but you're so badass YOU KEEP ON WRITING ANYWAY because that's how OP rolls.

54. Oh God, mindless fangirling in Berserk... I can't imagine that will ever end well. I feel for you.

56. Man, signed. Battles are so much more interesting when people play the oddballs, says I.

N!S 3- YES. YES. Signed, motto, every other term of agreement, they SO ARE. Kekkaishi owns the pants of Naruto in every way, and the relationships between the brothers is but one of those ways.

TAKE IT AWAY!

SOOO CUTE >.

9. TYL!Yamamoto, yummy~ ♥
15. .. maybe because those series you call 'crap' are much, much longer with more wider variety of characters?
(Btw, is that sum FAKE I see ♥?)
25. That Yassen was creepy. Ew.
50. Oh god, I crack up every time someone says "Just as planned" XD
64. .. AHAHAHH. But it's true. I strongly had the impression that what he felt (yes, FELT) for Guts was more than friendship, but just not love in the romantic meaning of it. ~~CANON-GAY~~I can't explain it in words, but .. ah, their relationship is heart-breaking.

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