[ SECRET POST #3919 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3919 ⌋

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

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02.
[The Magnus Archives Podcast]


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03.
[saiyuki reload blast]


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04.
[Somali to Mori no Kami-sama]


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[Christopher from an old season of Project Runway]


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[Tusk]


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[David Tennant and Michael Sheen in Good Omens]













Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 21 secrets from Secret Submission Post #561.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 1 (marked as Iron Fist/Luke Cage) - 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

[(Anonymous)]

Really? I thought "blood orange" was the colour of the inner flesh of a blood orange, which is a pretty dark red. I'd probably call an orangier shade of tomato "red-orange" over "blood orange," myself, but that's not as fancy.

I don't know the context. If she used the term "blood orange" for something that was a really different shade of red, then it is a kind of pretentious mistake. But you can't really see colours as they are in real life on a television screen.

Anyway, the way he says it seems sort of smugly ignorant.

[(Anonymous)]

yes, this. The inner flesh of a blood orange is not very orange.

[(Anonymous)]

That's because, despite people claiming they hate the meme because blood orange is a more specific color than red and she was just referring to it by its "correct" name and any serious designer should know that, many "pretentious" color names don't actually have a standard meaning.

The color version of the gifset pictured in the secret: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/e3/70/6b/e3706b954720a254b950a21dea759d2e.jpg

[fishnchips]

We could absolutely speak in more precise pigment names and there still would be debate over the actual colours behind it. Even descriptors like "sapphire" isn't a precise description for a certain shade of blue because there actually are yellow sapphires as well.

Personally, I did find the meme funny in the beginning because that female designer WAS a pretentious person throughout that season... but I got tired of it because the guy is no less pretentious and his catty comments were only funny for so long. If you look at the scene (and it's even pretty clear from the picture you posted), the female designer never insisted that yes, this particular shade of red can only be correctly referred to as blood orange. Instead, she used it to give an approximantion to more closely refer to this shade of red with a description she thought was fitting in that moment.
And obviously, those names don't have a standard meaning. But if you're active in the fashion business, you should at the very least be used to this - he just had a problem with it because he didn't like her.

[(Anonymous)]

How the fabric in the gifset appears to us is a matter of screen configuration. However, I felt that the fabric was far less orange than the text color OP used for their secret.

Ultimately, arguing over whether or not getting pretentious about color names makes you a better designer is about as useful as using your opinion on Dean Winchester's hair color as a metric for how good you are at writing.

[fishnchips]

Yes? That's why I said it's a matter of opinion and her opinion seems to be that the colour is "blood orange", whether or not that's objectively true (which you can't really say).
I also never said anything about him being a good designer or not. I'm saying calling someone pretentious over a colour description when you're no less pretentious is kind of hypocritical.

[(Anonymous)]

Then I'm not entirely sure what you think your original comment had to do with my original comment, but okay.