[ SECRET POST #3987 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3987 ⌋

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

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[Yuri on Ice]


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[Book Series: The Temeraire Novels by Naomi Novik]


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04.
[Orphan Black]


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05.
[South Park]


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06.
[Stranger Things]


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07.
[Smallville]


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[Iron Fist, Joy/Danny]














Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 43 secrets from Secret Submission Post #571.
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

[fscom]

07. https://i.imgur.com/q7FgZnt.jpg
[Smallville]

[(Anonymous)]

You're in luck because they were the juggernaut. I was sad because I didn't ship them at all but they were popular so there's definitely fic and art around.

[(Anonymous)]

At first glance I thought these were Hank and Walt Jr from Breaking Bad haha.

[(Anonymous)]

You and everyone else, friend, so there will be so much fic for you.

I'm pretty sure I even heard my mother mutter "oh just kiss already" at the screen once or twice.

spoilers, I guess?

[(Anonymous)]

When the series took the 'Yes, Lex is Absolute Evil' route, I stopped watching. They had created a complex character capable of good AND evil, and then dropped all of it just to make it the narrative work the way they wanted to. Drove me batty, and I never got over it.

Re: spoilers, I guess?

[(Anonymous)]

I mean, it's Superman. That narrative's been set for about 80 years now.

Re: spoilers, I guess?

[(Anonymous)]

Of course it has. But they had to ruin a characterization they had built to keep it, and that's incompetency at best.

Re: spoilers, I guess?

[des_pudels_kern]

What ruined the show for me was that other (good) characters did horrible things that were shrugged off and forgiven, but Lex, who in the first couple of seasons tried to break through his up-bringing and do good, for Clark, the Kents, and the entire town of Smallville, was condemned by all and sundry, for crossing morals lines (y'know, unlike everybody else on the show), for trying to solve people's financial problems with money, and for being born evil a ~Luthor. The way that community and his supposed best friend used and abused Lex could have driven anyone into supervillaindom. (Bitter, me? Noooo.)

Re: spoilers, I guess?

[calystarose]

This is a problem with a lot of shows, the 'bad' guys are complicated and the 'good' guys are never held accountable for their shit. It's what finally entirely ruined Teenwolf for me (well, I mean it was the final straw)

Re: spoilers, I guess?

[(Anonymous)]

I understand your objections, but I also think that might have been part of the point. Lex had the deck stacked against him from the start. The entire town, with the sometimes exception of Clark, was just waiting for him to turn evil, and like a bunch of small town hypocrites they cut him absolutely zero slack despite their own moral failings. Lex had the potential to be good, but it was snuffed out of him. Lex Luthor is Smallville’s legacy as much or more than Superman is. Lex is their self-fulfilling prophecy.

Re: spoilers, I guess?

[(Anonymous)]

This is how I choose to interpret Lex's storyline because otherwise the entire series is just too stupid to enjoy, but I honestly don't think it was entirely (or even mostly) what was intended. I think a lot less people would have been upset by how things went down if the writers didn't seem so convinced that their hypocritical "heroes" were right all along and that Lex deserved everything that happened to him because he was just inherently evil.

Re: spoilers, I guess?

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, that's always like I interpreted it, while also bein 99.99% sure that the people making the show never thought of it.

[supermanda]

It will never not make me happy to see a Smallville secret on here, good or bad.

[(Anonymous)]

There is SO MUCH fic for this pairing. So much. You're going to find something that you like, and possibly a whole lot of something. :D Seriously, you picked the right ship for the fandom-that-used-to-be.

[calystarose]

I was there when it began, there when it ended, broke up with it twice between all of that (ugly breakups too, I damn near threw my tv through the window). I will forever ship them. :D

[(Anonymous)]

This secret made me smile.

I was never hugely into the show when it was on, and I also didn't become intensely fannish about it when I binge-watched the first five seasons on DVD ten years ago. But I was always aware that Clark/Lex was a thing with people, and rewatching some of it again recently, I absolutely find myself shipping Clark/Lex. To the point where I consider them one of the great slash pairings for the ages, lol.

The dynamic between them in the first several seasons is just dynamite. I mean, it's an old show and the fact that they were never canon is water under the bridge, but honestly? I feel like the idea of what the story could have been, if a romantic/sexual attraction between them had been canon, lives on in my mind more clearly and indelibly than the actual canon does.

[(Anonymous)]

Anon, my DAD shipped them. They're practically canon.