[ SECRET POST #4338 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4338 ⌋

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

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[Criminal Minds, S02E22 "Legacy"]


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[The Missing: J.J. Macfield and the Island of Memories]


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[The House With a Clock in Its Walls]


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[Rebecca, by Daphne du Maurier]


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[Dragonriders of Pern series by Anne McCaffrey]


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[BuzzFeed Unsolved, Shane Madej and Ryan Bergara]


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[Parks and Rec]
















Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 36 secrets from Secret Submission Post #621.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[fscom]

01. https://i.imgur.com/PZFmscJ.jpg

[morieris]

I like them too.

[philstar22]

Right there with you. Although my fantasy usually involves being a long-lost queen of some multi-planet kingdom. Nothing wrong with a little fun fantasy.

[(Anonymous)]

Oh GOD, I was just watching one of these on Netflix earlier ("The Princess Switch") and it called out another ("The Christmas Prince") that I'd previously watched, also on Netflix, as being the favorite of one of the characters.

I felt very called out. :D

[(Anonymous)]

Oh, man, I don't have a problem with the genre but I couldn't handle The Princess Switch. It was just... Bad. And I love Vanessa Hudgens too! But the script and dialogue was just so, like, brutally efficient and nakedly pandering. I want a little charm.

[(Anonymous)]

It was TOTALLY pandering. I rolled my eyes so hard in places.

(Also. The entire premise of the genre is insta-love, I get that, I really do, but. Two days? TWO DAYS?? Give them a week at least, holy hell.)

...still watched to the end though. It's been that kind of day, I needed a predictable happy ending.

[(Anonymous)]

Mostly, I could never get past the idea of all these fictional European kingdoms being English-speaking when they would probably speak German or something.

[(Anonymous)]

"Belgravia" tho

[(Anonymous)]

poor belgravia, no one believes you exist

[(Anonymous)]

I haven't seen a cute movie with this trope in a while, but I will always click if that's the premise of an AU fic.

[(Anonymous)]

I absolutely hate that tripe. The values those films portray are just harmful and I'm sad for you.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm as opposed to monarchism as anyone, but it's a fantasy.

lmao

[(Anonymous)]

I'm sure the OP appreciates the concern trolling.

[philstar22]

Yup. Fantasy is totally harmful. WTF, anon?

[(Anonymous)]

But if I don't watch them, how will I know how to curtsy and which fork to use for when my prince and I have our fated and comedic meeting and he falls madly in love with me and asks me to be his bride?

HOW?

[(Anonymous)]

ia american fangirling of the monarchy is sad

Yup.

[(Anonymous)]

Everybody I know who has seen those films believes they are either secret royalty of a European country or that secret royalty of a European country is going to meet them, fall in love with them, and marry them. But, did you know that these countries don't even exist? Someone just, like, made them up. And people just don't know. I know I thought for a long time that I would rule over Drusselstein. Unfortunately, someone recently let me know that it wasn't a real country and I wasn't a cartoon character. So, now I speak up in online forums where people talk about these things to save others from the heartache.

[(Anonymous)]

Suuuure they are, hon.

[silverr]

As long as you can distinguish it from reality, you don't need to outgrow fantasy.

[(Anonymous)]

I forget the title, but the only one of these I ever liked was a book where the American girl had to marry the prince who had been betrothed to the princess she’d been switched at birth with.

Except she was creeped out by the prince and starting to fall for one of the reporters sent to interview her. And the former princess was still in love with “her” prince. So the former princess is set up as her replacement’s jealous enemy and acts really bitchy, but she helps the reporter “kidnap” the new princess on her wedding day and the big reveal—which may or may not have been the result of the former princess’ tampering—is that the secret American princess was actually a normal girl all along, she’d just been used as part of a political plot against the royal family.

So the real princess got to marry her prince after all, and the American girl got to go home to her parents and date the reporter.

[osidiano]

That sounds like a really fun trope inversion! Now I want to add it to my reading list. :)

[(Anonymous)]

Oh man, I love the hell out of that genre. I love reading about real life princesses too and honestly, being a real princess would suck, but the fairy tale fantasy is my happy place and I love indulging in it.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't care for this trope much in a modern setting, but I still love fairy tales about princesses or ordinary scullery girls marrying princes.