[ SECRET POST #4070 ]

[case]

⌈ Secret Post #4070 ⌋

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

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02.
[Futurama]


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03.
[Cheers]


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04.
[Classic Hollywood cinema]


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05.
[Xena: Warrior Princess]


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06.
[Altered Carbon, Kristin Ortega]


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07.
[Game of Thrones/ASOIAF (OP's note: more for the books, but the art was too pretty not to use)]











Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 42 secrets from Secret Submission Post #583.
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.

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[fscom]

Official advertise your fandom-related event thread.

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Review/Analysis of Enterprise's "The Council"

[(Anonymous)]

Archer finally gets to plead his case before the Xindi council. It does not always go well.

https://tv-366.blogspot.com/2018/02/day-342-enterprise-council.html

[fscom]

Official clickables thread.

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Pokemon Go Community Day?

[(Anonymous)]

Anyone participating in this Dratini galore?

Re: Pokemon Go Community Day?

[bur]

I read that as "Pokemon Go Communist Day".

Re: Pokemon Go Community Day?

[kaijinscendre]

Got my first Dratini AND shiny today. Sadly, it is too cold for me to go on very long walks.

Re: Pokemon Go Community Day?

[(Anonymous)]

I just got back! I live in a city so doing a big long loop for an hour or two, stopping for coffee along the way, was really fun. I got TONS of Dratinis! Not very many high stat ones, though, but I think I bagged something like six Shiny Dratini. However, I'm pretty sure something is bugged, because none of them look Shiny, they are identical to the non-Shiny Dratini. I only know they are Shiny because of the sparkles.

Too bad they are all super low stat or average, though. Maybe I'll evolve one for fun, but not really much good.

Re: Pokemon Go Community Day?

[(Anonymous)]

I caught several and with my previous Dratini catches I had enough dratini candy to evolve the strongest one into Dragonair. I'm pretty satisfied.

Re: Pokemon Go Community Day?

[(Anonymous)]

Unfortunately it was a total downpour all day today and I have bronchitis right now so I couldn't go hunting, which sucks because Dratini is one of my favorite pokemon ): I did manage to catch one while at the doctor's office though!

Re: Pokemon Go Community Day?

[(Anonymous)]

I'm majorly bummed that it only lasted for three hours. :( I was at work so I only got to go out and hunt for fifteen minutes on my break.

[kaijinscendre]

Come discuss Arrival with us! Arrival is available to watch on Hulu and Amazon Prime!

Crack recs

[eve_n_furter]

Hi. I just added a room for Crack fic to my rec archive: https://archiveofourown.org/collections/KHRSF_9_Gazebo

Anyone else have some epic crack to share?

What movie/tv/game genres do you want to see more of?

[(Anonymous)]

It doesn't have to be the same genre for all three.

Doki Doki Literature Club

[(Anonymous)]

So, when does this game get spooky? I just played for like three hours with a friend (granted, not very fast, we kept stopping to cook and drink, and we had the text on a pretty slow Auto). So far it just seems like a cutesy dating sim where the poems are kind of creepy, but that might just be because I'm really looking to find creepy stuff.

Is the claims that it's super scary all a conspiracy to get me to play a dating sim?

Porn!

[(Anonymous)]

What kind of video porn do you like?

Trying to find some old secrets

[(Anonymous)]

I don't know how long it's been, probably at least a year ago, there were at least two, maybe more, and either the person actually said it themselves, or people were speculating in the comments, that it was the same person who made them both/all. It was about some band and the secret maker thought two of the (supposedly straight male) band members were in a secret relationship based off of some stuff one of them said on social media or in an interview or something.

I know this is probably vague/a long shot, but does anyone remember these secrets/know what the band was?

Oneshot recs?

[(Anonymous)]

Not a single one of my favorited fanfics, on FFN or AO3, no matter how active previously, has updated yet in 2018. This year is cursed, cursed I tell you! *ahem* Anyway, I’m looking for some oneshots to fill the void. Main big fandoms atm are Avengers and Zelda. Lighter stuff preferred; will accept angst, but it must have a happy ending. Aiming for 5k words or fewer — basically, snacks for a short attention span.

janus v afscme, who make the political out of the agency?

[(Anonymous)]

screw the congressional budget, with the "tax cuts and job act".

http://www.governing.com/topics/mgmt/gov-janus-afscme-right-to-work-states-unions.html

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-court-unions/fees-case-may-enable-u-s-supreme-court-to-curb-union-power-idUSKCN1G71E6

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Games thread!

Movie Club Discussion!

[kaijinscendre]

Today we are discussing Arrival!

Here are some questions to start us off.

1. What was your initial reaction when the movie started? How did that change by the end of the movie?

2. Who was your favorite character in the movie? Your least favorite character? Why?

3. What was your favorite scenes? Your least favorite? Why?

4. What did you think of the soundtrack and/or score?

5. What did you think of the production (cinematography, editing, costuming, etc.)?

Feel free to talk about anything else as well!

Re: Movie Club Discussion!

[kaijinscendre]

1. This is the second time I have watched the movie but it was recently enough that I remember everything I felt about it. I found the opening a bit boring until Colonel Weber shows up in Louise's office. I thought it was AMAZING. This was just one of the best movies I have ever seen. I regret not seeing it in theaters.

2. I feel like the favorite and least favorite characters are obvious. Louise was such an amazing, smart, and powerful character. I was just blown away by Amy Adams's acting. My least favorite was the leader of the assholes who blew up the ship. I knew he was going to do something stupid from like the second scene we saw him.

3. Ugh! I can't decide what my favorite scene is. I don't really have a least favorite. Some of my favorite scenes. The first time they enter the ship and shift....gravity. Or it might be the first time we see the heptapods for the first time. OR when Louise starts communicating with them. Or the climatic ending where she has learned to travel/manipulate time and is able to save them all by talking the Chinese general. Or perhaps is the opening scene/monologue that you don't really get until you watch the movie again.

4. It was phenomenal. Just...phenomenal. I listened to the OST for a month after watching the movie. I cannot think of a movie where the music embodied the movie more than this. It is such a shame that Jóhann Jóhannsson died so suddenly.

5. Everything about this movie was beautiful. The design for the ship is awesome (it was apparently based on a comet). The design of the heptapods is just so amazingly...alien. I loved every scene of this film. How they filmed the scene where she is in the heptapod's 'room' gave is such an ethereal quality was perfect.

Other thoughts: I love that both Louise and Ian got a time to shine. I love, love, love that Louise decides to have her daughter even though she knows what will happen to her. And I don't at all blame Ian for being upset when Louise tells him what will happen.

Re: Movie Club Discussion!

[morieris]

I have to praise the sound - and sometimes the lack there of. But I guess there was a sound, but it was like an atmospheric thing. The sound of the chatter of the humans dying away as the pressure was on when they went into the ships.

I really enjoyed so much of this, but the bit with people trying to parse the language of the aliens with the circles in the lab was really interesting.

Re: Movie Club Discussion!

[(Anonymous)]

It's been a couple of weeks since I saw it, and I've moved house since then. So my recollections are a bit hazy. But I made some notes, so here goes.

1. Initial reactions. Wasn't sure what to make of it – was she going to disappear into The System, or what? Once I got a handle on what was going on, I relaxed a bit.

2. Favourite character. I suppose Louise – she was the protag and I think we were supposed to see her as sympathetic. And I was sympathetic, right up to the point at which I realised that she'd decided to have her daughter despite knowing all that she would suffer. Who'd do that to an innocent child??

3. I liked the gravity shift – that was weird and dislocating, and worked very well indeed. And the scene in which “Ian walks” - that was unexpectedly funny, and just great. Also the scene where they were going through their heptapod “dictionary” - it showed how far they'd come.

4. I thought the soundtrack was trying a bit too hard? The whole scenario is weird enough anyway.

5. I know nothing of cinematography but it worked for me! I liked the big, empty landscape and the sculptural quality of the alien ship.

There was a lot of stuff I didn't get as well. Like, why so few women, and why was the one woman we get to see a lot of so greatly defined by her role as a mother? Are we going for maximum gender stereotyping here?

It made no sense to me to have a colonel in charge who was so rigid and inflexible. You want someone who's a bit more open to ideas for a position like that. Likewise, General Shang was oddly aggressive until the end. Why would you be so aggressive towards people who have FTL travel? You'd have no chance against them. But both Halpern and Shang mellowed considerably at the end, and I liked that.

Also, why so little co-operation between the humans at the various landing-sites? And why only one Mandarin speaker at “our” site? It all seems very disorganised to me.

I was left with lots of intriguing questions about causality and foreknowledge. So it's a movie to get one thinking, for sure - and that's what I like most about it.

spoilers I guess.

[(Anonymous)]

1. Huh and at the end sort of uhhh.

2. I'm not sure I have a favourite. I disliked Louise after the big reveal, and I related more to Ian's negative reaction than her own actions. I didn't like her that much to begin with though. I found her arrogant.

3. I like looking at all the pretty language blobs. I felt a bit uncomfortable with all the bits like China gets the translation wrong and all these other countries like Russia and other places we are obviously superior to are reacting stupidly. Buuuut it's a very common theme in American movies.

4. I can't say I took much notice? I probably would have if I knew it was going to be in the quiz. So it was probably neither terrible nor mind-blowing.

5. Decent looking production. I think the parts where they kept things simpler worked well.

I don't really understand if seeing the language means that you can't change the decisions you will make that will lead to that outcome. I also don't understand if their exposure to the aliens and ship which at one point makes Louise look pretty messed up contributed to whatever the hell is going to be wrong with the kid.

I think I was supposed to find Louise a lot more sympathetic than I did.

I didn't think the squid look was very alien.

I probably won't watch it again but parts of it were somewhat enjoyable. I would be a terrible movie reviewer. Wow.