[ SECRET POST #4102 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4102 ⌋

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

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02.
[Jessica Jones, season 2]


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03.
[Assassination Classroom]


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04.
[Chronicles of Narnia]


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05.
[Shimanami Tasogare]


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06.
[The Office (U.S.)]


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07.
[Inuyasha]


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08.
(Live performance of Serj Tankian singing Rains of Castamere from Game of Thrones)













Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 16 secrets from Secret Submission Post #587.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 2 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

JKR and her ham-handed worldbuilding aside (anons are right, she's great in her wheelhouse but it is a small wheelhouse), I feel like once you start really getting into magic's interaction with culture, government, and history, you start treading on thinner ice. That is, you'll eventually run smack up against the wall of really unpleasant things like religious persecution of magic-users, how to treat other cultures' spirituality sensitively and not turning them all into magical savages, etc. I don't think it's impossible, but eventually it'll turn into wank no matter how hard you try to keep discussion civil or ensure that your ideas make sense AND are sensitive at the same time.

Like, really, the "wizarding" community only really works as an English/American concept, and that's even after completely skirting around Catholic and Puritan witch-hunting. Much of Rowling's lore is firmly English-based, and naturally so, but concepts of mythology are so radically different in other cultures that I feel like trying to shoehorn Native American tribes, Taoist mystics, Zulu diviners, Aztec priests, etc into this concept of secret wizard communities worldwide would start to get awkward after a point. The Pottermore story about the founding of American wizarding school was already bad enough.

[(Anonymous)]

+1 Rowling has created one of the most popular fantasy series of all time, but most of her world building ideas aren't original and they don't bear up under scrutiny. But that's fine! It was originally meant for kids, after all. Trying to expand the original universe and flesh out the skeleton has been embarrassing and kind of racist. I wish she'd just left it, honestly.