[ SECRET POST #3837 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3837 ⌋

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

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[Kuroshitsuji]


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(Doctor Who, Twelfth Doctor)


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[The Lowe Files]


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[Mariqueen Maandig Reznor, How to Destroy Angels]










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Comments

[fscom]

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[kallanda_lee]

I dunno...honestly I do think some professions are vilified for reasons, in the sense that say, investment bankers will generally go for profit and not for helping orphans. It's not like they're mwahaha evil people, but the nature of their profession is profit driven and hot people driven.

Now, if you'd have an investment banker who gives free financial advice to poor people as a charity, I'd be interested....

[(Anonymous)]

"the nature of their profession is profit driven"

Sympathetic characters who are CEOs of companies whose literal job it is to raise value for shareholders and fuck everyone else are pretty common though. Usually totally glossed over, too.

[kallanda_lee]

tbh, I have no great love for CEO's, if that helps. Often I find them almost a caricature in fiction, either way.

[diet_poison]

this is pretty much how I feel about it too.

[(Anonymous)]

Ruined City by Neville Shute has a heroic banker in it.

10 Pound Penalty by Dick Francis has a virtuous politician on the rise.

They both delve into the minutiae of the professions.

[tabaqui]

*grabs you*
OMG!!! You read Dick Francis!!!
*twirls you*

You have no idea how hard it is to find other DF readers. :)

[(Anonymous)]

*hugs you*

(It was a family thing - someone always gave my grandad the latest hardcover for Christmas and about ten of his descendants would read it before we went home and he got a chance at it.)

[tabaqui]

Oh, that's so cool! My mom was subscribed to the Reader's Digest abridged novels (you'd get four books in one), and I read a couple of his in those. And then I wanted to read *all* the story, so I started getting them from the library and/or the bookstore when I could. My mom and I have been fans for years.

I love his books so much! When i was a kid, it was the fact that his 'hero' was generally a jockey and there was always horse stuff going on that attracted me. Later, it was just the well-written, interesting stories, characters, lives and mysteries (and the horses).

Such an excellent writer! And such an interesting life.

[sabotabby]

I'm writing a thing with a sympathetic politician. Just the one, though.

[ninefox]

There's a great sympathetic politician in The Risen Empire, by Scott Westerfeld. She's a Space Senator who isn't immune to the pressures of her position but in the end she is canny and principled and does some amazing stuff.