Case (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
case) wrote in ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
fandomsecrets2008-07-26 05:07 pm
case) wrote in fandomsecrets2008-07-26 05:07 pm
[ SECRET POST #568 ]
⌈ Secret Post #568 ⌋
Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.
101.
__________________________________________________
102.
__________________________________________________
103.
__________________________________________________
104.
__________________________________________________
105.
__________________________________________________
106.
__________________________________________________
107.
__________________________________________________
108.
__________________________________________________
109.
__________________________________________________
110.
__________________________________________________
111.
__________________________________________________
112.
__________________________________________________
113.
__________________________________________________
114.
__________________________________________________
115.
__________________________________________________
116.
__________________________________________________
117.
__________________________________________________
118.
__________________________________________________
119.
__________________________________________________
120.
__________________________________________________
121.
__________________________________________________
122.
__________________________________________________
123.
__________________________________________________
124.
__________________________________________________
125.
__________________________________________________
126.
__________________________________________________
127.
__________________________________________________
128.
__________________________________________________
129.
[previously too big]
__________________________________________________
130.
__________________________________________________
131.
__________________________________________________
132.
__________________________________________________
133.
__________________________________________________
134.
__________________________________________________
135.
__________________________________________________
136.
__________________________________________________
137.
__________________________________________________
138.
__________________________________________________
139.
__________________________________________________
140.
__________________________________________________
141.
__________________________________________________
142.
__________________________________________________
143.
__________________________________________________
144.
__________________________________________________
145.
__________________________________________________
146.
__________________________________________________
147.
__________________________________________________
148.
__________________________________________________
149.
__________________________________________________
150.
__________________________________________________
151.
__________________________________________________
152.
__________________________________________________
153.
__________________________________________________
154.
__________________________________________________
155.
__________________________________________________
156.
__________________________________________________
157.
__________________________________________________
158.
__________________________________________________
159.
__________________________________________________
160.
__________________________________________________
161.
__________________________________________________
162.
__________________________________________________
163.
__________________________________________________
164.
__________________________________________________
165.
__________________________________________________
166.
__________________________________________________
167.
__________________________________________________
168.
__________________________________________________
169.
__________________________________________________
170.
__________________________________________________
171.
__________________________________________________
172.
__________________________________________________
173.
__________________________________________________
174.
__________________________________________________
175.
__________________________________________________
176.
__________________________________________________
177.
__________________________________________________
178.
__________________________________________________
179.
__________________________________________________
180.
__________________________________________________
181.
__________________________________________________
182.
__________________________________________________
183.
__________________________________________________
184.
__________________________________________________
185.
__________________________________________________
186.
__________________________________________________
187.
__________________________________________________
188.
Notes:
FS Layout Contest. Contest entries close August 10th!
Secrets Left to Post: 23 pages, 551 secrets from Secret Submission Post #082.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 1 2 - broken links ], [ 1 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 1 2 3 - too big ], [ 1 - repeat ], [ 1 - empty comment ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.
no subject
115 - There is a writer in my country who has published 20+ books. They sell so well that it's almost impossible to find any of her older writings. The bad part? The heroine and the hero are the freaking same in every book, just different names and sometimes different hobbies. I still have read almost all of her books because they are entertaining crime stories. But I don't consider her all that a great writer because of the character thing.
A bit of the same goes for Twilight and Stephenie Meyer. Yes, she probably based Bella on herself, which probably is the effect of writing while imagining to be her, and a lot of people make this "mistake". Stephenie Meyer doesn't have the fantasy of JRR Tolkien or Arthur C. Clarke, she didn't make up a whole new world. She is anything but the greatest author out there, and I think it's pointless to get mad over fans who think so - there are people like that in EVERY fandom. But on her level, may I say so, I think she wrote a quite enjoyable book.
As for Bella, I don't think she is a Mary-Sue. She is kind of a blunt character which makes it easier for readers to imagine what it's like to be her, but I always loved her honesty in the books. As for the "she is the most beautiful girl and everyone loves her!!4!" - when I first read the book, I wasn't completely okay with this, either. But somewhere, in an interview Stephenie told that she based that on personal experience: being the "new girl in town", from a completely different world, boys are interested in the strange new being, while girls get naturally jealous because the girl is in the center of attention. There are countless examples of this, but that doesn't make it any less true.
But again, what I'd like to point out? Yes, there are young girls with less reading experience who think Stephenie is the new God and Twilight is their Bible, but that doesn't stand as the opinion of the whole "fanbase". There are many, way more despicable things that are overly popular than Twilight, and I'm tired of everyone throwing their popularity-hate on it. Yes, I've read all of the books and loved them. It was a great emotional experience for me, and I've never reading anything alike in while so it was special for me. Today, most of the love stories have a great physical focus and happen fast, on whim. Reading about a story where the relationship didn't start with a kiss was interesting for me. I don't think this makes Stephenie an outstanding author, but I still like the book.
Others don't. That's completely NATURAL, it's impossible to have something everyone likes. I can even accept the critiques at the quality, if it's well thought out, not hate fuelled. Not everything has to be perfect to be enoyable. I don't watch American Pie because I want to see a complex story with deep thoughts, I watch it because it's entertaining. And, in a completely different way, Twilight is entertaining for me, too. I don't think this makes me a bad person at all.
As for judging a book by the bashing and then writing a hate secret without even reading the book? I don't think that's any more mature.
Sorry for the long rant. I felt like answering, you know, so this is not only directed at this particular secret poster.
140 - Ahh, nice one. :)
145 - You can't even imagine how happy that little side-comment made me. :) Good luck with your novel!
158 - Being one of those "kind of fed up with the random slash" people, I'd like to thank you for writing this, it's really interesting to watch them from this perspective!
166 - Please tell me where is the top left panel from!
me = idiot obsessed with graphics175 - How do you know she is a Mary-Sue if you didn't watch it? I don't love Haruhi as much as the great fandom does (I've watched the show out of pure boredom), but I think she is anything but what we usually call Mary-Sue, considering she is a kind of self-absorbed, spoiled, ignorant and many bad things you may want.
115
Re: 115
Liking or not liking something does not make you a better, smarter, etc. person. That's what irks me the most about all these anti-Twilight secrets.
Same here.
Re: 175
(Anonymous) 2008-07-27 12:09 am (UTC)(link)Most Mary Sue's have those same flaws.
Re: 175
(Anonymous) 2008-07-27 12:56 am (UTC)(link)Re: 175
Re: 175