[ SECRET POST #3849 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3849 ⌋

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

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02.
[Horizon Zero Dawn]


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03.
[Jurassic World]


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04.
[Michelle Gomez in Doctor Who, Jack Davenport in Pirates of the Caribbean]


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05.
[Longmire, Cady Longmire/Jacob Nighthorse]


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06.
(Animal Kingdom)


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07.
[Sirens]


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 24 secrets from Secret Submission Post #551.
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

Re: Annoying feedback on fic

[sadiesockmonkey]

I'll read ship fic for fandoms I'm not in, but I definitely don't understand reading pairings I legitimately dislike. Unless it was my NOTP and it was a super angsty character death thing, maybe. I've never done that, but that's about the only situation I think would make sense for this.

As for your second point, this is slightly OT, but I feel you. I love genderbending fanfic and yet as a genre, this is one of the biggest problems I find within. I once read a female!Merlin fic that was meant to encompass the series, writing it with a female Merlin, but from the first chapter Merlin was this self-assured, assertive woman, who was super confident in her magic and I could not backbutton faster. That's not Merlin. That's "girl power" fantasy Merlin and is nothing like the character in canon.

Similarly, one of my favorite people retweeted one of my least favorite people saying, most likely as an aside response to the Doctor casting hubbub, that if Harry Potter were a girl, there'd be no story because Harry would just go get McGonagall to act on her behalf. I hate that sentiment so much. It's false and wrong and bad. It's not empowering to women, and would, in fact, rob the world of one of the best selling series of all time, written by a woman? But then again, I already dislike the person who wrote this tweet, so I'm biased against them, even if in this case they're demonstrably wrong.

Re: Annoying feedback on fic

[(Anonymous)]

I think I hate the super-competent-perfect-woman thing. I saw it too with a "Why Disney Princesses don't have moms" thing and it was all basically "Because they'd be perfect and keep any problematic conflict from happening."

They seem to be by people who think 'strong female character' means perfect, not 'well developed with flaws and character growth'