[ SECRET POST #527 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #527 ⌋

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

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 18 pages, 442 secrets from Secret Submission Post #076.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 1 - broken links ], [ 1 2 3 - not!secrets ], [ 1 - not!fandom ], [ 1 2 3 4 (again) 5 6 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

Re: Other Mouse

[rex-dart.livejournal.com]

It's not that people care enough to leave a comment. It's that people care enough to remember who I am. Didn't know that.

The point I've been trying to make is that I don't really think there's a definitive Axel. Axel's not the same between stories that I write, and the stories that I recommend to people and the stories that you'll find that I read if you look at, say, my FFN favorites all have totally different Axels, and yet I still like them, and there are stories with different Axels that I've said that I wish that I'd written. I've made statements about his character and defended them and asked people to do the same and people have and I've enjoyed that and I don't think anyone's right or wrong - there is no right or wrong interpreting fiction, just positions that are more or less defensible. This is like reading an analysis of Hamlet and getting upset that someone thinks they know everything about Horatio. That's not really how it is, and that's the level I'm functioning on. Just wanted to point that out, as well as the fact that my actions should speak louder than my words since obviously one of them is more open to misinterpretation.

ETA: The last serious character analysis I wrote knocked every position on Iago except mine, which is that he was motivated by repressed sexual feelings for Othello. Which might give the impression that I think that I'm the definitive authority on Iago, but that would be silly as well. :3

Interrupting Cow

[intravenusann.livejournal.com]

My least favorite part about being an English major, though, is that there are people have the eminent opinion. There are scholars out there who are held up to know everything about Horatio and, as some poor sap who disagrees, I look bad in class and I'd look worse trying to publish. Which is bullshit because you're exactly right. Nobody but Shakespeare actually knows the wrong or right of Horatio.

I think, seeing as you are Kind of a Big Deal (and whether or not you recognize that you are, trust me that I'm not just trying to flatter you when I say you are), people take that to mean that they can't have their own opinions. On the internet words always speak louder than actions. I think the fact that you didn't know you were that important (and therefore your opinion carried as much weight as it does) factors into how you phrase things.

I mean, people are far more likely to take Stephen Greenblatt's criticism as The One Truth than mine. And even if Greenblatt was amenable to debate, would the rest of us know through all his reviewers and professors and teachers who take is word as the Law of Shakespearean criticism?

That said, I don't know if I think your Axel is the real Axel. And I'd say you have a very consistent characterization of Axel. But it's a concept that comes from a love for the character and a devotion of time and energy and deep thought. And I respect that A LOT. Eh, whatever, I don't wanna sound like I'm sucking up when I'm just offering my $0.02.

... I really, really wanna see that character analysis.

Yeah, I'm just one of the 345 people who have you friended and from our few e-interactions you probably think I'm just a huge stalkery bitch (and I'm only confirming this belief, I'm sure) but... yeah, sorry you're getting wanked at/about.

Re: Interrupting Cow

[rex-dart.livejournal.com]

I think a lot of this is stemming from the fact that apparently I'm being put on more of a pedestal than I ever thought I was. I honestly didn't realize that anyone would ever say my name outside my journal and have other people realize who I was at all. I thought that I got out of being "known" when I got out of writing movie parodies. Which was a mistake on my part, and now that I know I guess I should start saying things in a bit of a different manner. This whole thing has seriously made me look at things through a whole new lens, and I can understand more now why people see me the way I do, although I hope not everyone does.

But I'm not Kind of a Big Deal. I don't have any leather-bound books and my house doesn't even contain any rich mahogany.

And I'll post that analysis for you soon, if you wanna read it. It's not my best essay evar but it's got some good points for being from a non-English major. xD

Re: Interrupting Cow

[intravenusann.livejournal.com]

Welcome to the magic that is the KH fandom. And then when you consider that I used to just check your journal for periodic Star Wars and history related lulz and because my girlfriend had you friended, but I friended you after you started regularly contributing to the KH fandom... There are probably an absolutely exponential amount of people who read your lj without having it friended.

... And that was unnecessarily creepy of me to point out. :( Sorry.

And the internet allows you to be a Big Deal without spending the money on dead cows and trees! Isn't it awesome?

:D!!! I am very excited by this! You are a good writer and the fact that you aren't an English major means it'll probably be even better (we English majors tend to write to impress our professors and other English majors leading to a lot of unreadable bullshit being passed off as high intellectual stuff :\) But YES. The world needs more essays about characters being motivated by sublimated homosexual desire.