[ SECRET POST #4007 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4007 ⌋

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

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02.
[Pokémon USUM]


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03.
[Moby]


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04.
[Brooklyn 99, Gina Linetti]


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05.
[Guardians of the Galaxy franchise]


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06.
[Illusion of Gaia]


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07.
[Stranger Things]













Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 45 secrets from Secret Submission Post #574.
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

[(Anonymous)]

I think given Eleven's mental state and total lack of socialization, it made sense at the time? I also expect that further character development will happen.

I get that the rival girl is a terrible trope, but it's terrible because it's overdone and unjustified on most of the places it's used.

[(Anonymous)]

IMO, once a trope gets to that level of being overused and terrible, it's hard to meaningfully justify it and make it good. You need to question it and complicate it, not just textually support it, you know?

[(Anonymous)]

She spent all her time in the woods watching old romantic dramas/comedies.

[ninety6tears]

Not enough to realistically override her overwhelming desire to see Mike by any stretch of my imagination.

[(Anonymous)]

Fuck, why can't we do that?!

[(Anonymous)]

^THIS. I'm not against using well worn tropes but honestly, writers have to try extra hard to combat just how awful and clichéd they can be. A lot of them don't bother, unfortunately.

[ninety6tears]

LOL, given her lack of socialization on top of her age, I would more quickly jump to her not being capable of romantic jealousy and being confused by society's perception that girls and boys are never just friends.

[(Anonymous)]

"Boys and girls can never be just friends" is something kids learn from the time they're born. I doubt even her time in captivity kept her from learning something about it.

And her socialization after she escaped didn't meet with a lot of resistance from her. She immediately decided she was pretty in a dress and wig because the boys said she was pretty. She was a passive entity who didn't form her own thoughts about what she saw, rather absorbing ideas given to her like a sponge.

[ninety6tears]

I don't doubt what you doubt. And your other examples are just further ways she was badly written, or not related, or ridiculous. The fact she's pretty is not a social schema for christ sakes. What about the times she didn't accept whatever Jim told her? What about how social standards still don't always directly translate to what many people believed was a major overreaction given the hard-earned context of her seeing Mike?

I am literally wearing a Stranger Things sweatshirt and still unable to believe there is a fan defending that moment, LOL.