[ SECRET POST #3830 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3830 ⌋

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

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[Drake Bell and Josh Peck from Drake & Josh]


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[Death in Paradise, Ardal O'Hanlon]


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[Dreamwidth Roleplay]


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[Final Fantasy X & X-2]


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[Outlander]


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[Animal Crossing/Legend of Zelda]


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[Daredevil TV]


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 11 secrets from Secret Submission Post #548.
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

[initiala]

I'm enjoying the books so far (only on 4), but I get the feeling that this perspective is a lot more informed by the author's preferences. Like, it feels like most of the people we're told are bad and evil also ~surprisingly~ turn out to have a sexual interest in men. Usually of the sadistic variety.

I mean, Jamie's views later are also colored significantly by the fact that he was abused, beaten, and left basically for dead by Randall, so it doesn't come without reason. Doesn't make it right, but you see where he's coming from. But it does bug me a lot that we're getting all these ~historical gays~ and there's practically zero positive representation or attitudes towards them.

[(Anonymous)]

I wondered the same thing. It's pretty clear to me that the author has a huge thing for Jamie, not unlike Stephenie Meyer's obsession with Edward. Gabaldon has been very, very vocal about being anti-fanfic (which is a funny hypocrisy in itself) and I wondered if Jamie's homophobia is her of way of trying to stop the slash pairings. Claire is her self insert and Jamie/Claire is her OTP.

Ironically, Gabaldon's Lord Grey series (featuring the character in the secret, as an adult) comes a lot closer to being a positive representation of a gay man in a historical setting.

[(Anonymous)]

She doesn't want anybody writing fanfic about her Frazer Hines/Jamie McCrimmon expy and apparently has no self-awareness about what a giant hypocrite she is, and it's FUCKING HILARIOUS.

[seashadows]

This. By the Doylist perspective, it's awful - there was absolutely no need to have Randall, Sandringham, AND John Grey all lusting after Jamie, the first two doing so when he was underage. And the only lesbian character tried to rape Claire in Book 6.

[(Anonymous)]

Oh, from a Doylist perspective, that series is a mess! I don't know why, but the author is dead set on having everyone and their grandmother lust after Jamie and Claire. Like, weird insta-lust that sometimes becomes a convenient plot device.

[digitalghosts]

This is why I passed on those books as read about that before. Sure, it's fun to have evil gay characters with not so great heroes (would say that dude is half-validated by abuse plus not so paragon views are amusing to read) but it being a running theme is just weird.

[(Anonymous)]

Lord Grey is intensely sympathetic.