[ SECRET POST #4042 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4042 ⌋

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

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02.
[Louisa May Alcott, Eight Cousins]


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03.
[Jojo's Bizarre Adventure]


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04.
[Mickey Rourke (and Kim Basinger even though the secret's not about her)]


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05.
[Tommy Wiseau and Greg Sestero]


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06.
[Welcome to the Ballroom]


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07.
[Crazy Ex Girlfriend]











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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

How do you potray "I DON'T want kids, right NOW"? If they don't want kids, it's just never going to come up. I mean sure they could purposely write a whole story including children to elaborately talk about how the character doesn't want kids, but...I mean, does anyone really want that. If you don't like kids, you're already gonna be annoyed when kids appear, even if it's about not wanting kids the whole plotline is gonna seem awkward and annoying. And if you do like kids, having a whole story talking about how the character doesn't like kids is gonna be annoying as well.

[(Anonymous)]

Whether or not you want kids should absolutely come up when you’re in a serious relationship. Relationship talks are a key component of many shows. Basically, you’re full of shit here.

[(Anonymous)]

If the character is in a serious relationship, it could certainly come up, but even then it's not a requirement that we the audience be shown that conversation. There's other ways it could come up between characters, too, like someone discussing with a friend about how they want kids and the friend mentions they don't, but it's not required that conversation happen, either. All of this can be good character building, but there's a lot of ways to build characters and at the end of the day, it's not necessary to pre-emptively establish every character's position on procreation.

[(Anonymous)]

I thought Elementary touched on this pretty well. There's an episode with a subplot where one of Sherlock's lady friends announces she wants to have a baby and is wondering if Sherlock would be willing to be the father. I'm pretty sure he says no in the end, but he had to give it some thought. At one point, he asks Joan if she ever thought about having kids and she says something like "Oh, I don't know, maybe." (I don't know if that was supposed to be "Maybe I want kids someday" or "Maybe I've thought about it" - I guess it depends on how old Joan is supposed to be, since if she's the same age as Lucy Liu, that's too old to be "Maybe someday" about it). Joan doesn't outright say no, but she definitely doesn't seem very interested in the subject of babies.

I agree with you that it would usually be awkward to bring up the subject. If you have a plot where a character finds out she's sterile and her response is "Whatever, I don't want kids" and no one else has any kind of reaction, then why did you even bother writing that plotline?