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⌈ Secret Post #4342 ⌋

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

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03. [SPOILERS for Daredevil season 3]

[Wilson Fisk/Vanessa Mariana]

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04. [SPOILERS for Daredevil season 3]

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05. [SPOILERS for Shameless (US)]

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06. [SPOILERS for Doctor Who season 11, episode 3 - "Rosa"]

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07. [SPOILERS for House of Cards]

[Robin Wright as Claire Underwood]

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08. [WARNING for discussion of non-con]

[Die Hard]

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09. [WARNING for discussion of child/spousal abuse]

[My Hero Academia]

Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 00 pages, 00 secrets from Secret Submission Post #621.
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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how do you make secrets that lots of people respond to?

I only ever get maybe one or two replies if any.

Say something mean about dogs

I would never!

Cats on the other hand...

Go for it; mean statements about cats are better for discussion than mean statements about dogs. Everyone loves dogs and will just roast you and be done with it. Cats are controversial.

Controversial opinions. Use extreme language. Not just "I hate blah blah." but I FUCKING HATE blah blah.

Make one that you know will start wank.

Aggressive wording.

"I ship this (somewhat obscure ship nobody pays attention to)" won't get you much.

"I ship this, and if you ship (other, popular ship) instead, I JUDGE YOU because (list of reasons why the other ship is terrible awful bad)" will get you more.

In fact, an "I judge you if" statement anywhere in your secret is always a good way to get responses!

I reply to any replies the secret gets in hope of starting an actual discussion. Sometimes it works.

It seemed like secrets relating to Benedict Cumberbatch's penis would get lots of comments. Not sure if that would still work. (Also, it's understandable if you have no secrets to tell about his penis.)

Admit you dislike a female character in a popular piece of media. Even if you explain your reasons for why you don't like her, a bunch of comments will be about how you're a lying misogynist or that no, bad writing isn't a good enough excuse to dislike a female character when it's clearly sexism on your part, etc. etc.

And you'll especially get replies if you say your complaint in a sexist way

Oh, that part's easy, because to many people, simply saying that you didn't like a female character IS sexist, period.

Honestly? No idea.

I submitted I think 10 secrets this week. The secret I thought would be the wankiest only got a handful of comments while one that was just kind of an admission to the void generated a lot of discussion I frankly wasn't all that interested in.

There's no guarantee of anything, really. Controversial opinions help, but you can't always gauge what's going to set people off. Making secrets about more popular, current fandoms help. keep it short and sweet. Don't underestimate the power of making a secret legible - fewer people bother to read secrets with teensy tiny ant text done in light colors on a light background that's 200x300 pixels big.

Bring up bandit mask markings on Huskies

Snape vs. James is good if you want back-and-forth over bullying and racism vs. bullying and sexual assault

Captain America vs. Iron Man is good if you want to rehash Civil War yet again

You could write how you don't mind whitewashing or someone cis playing trans

You could write something about how you don't understand why fic writers want validation/write the way they do/write what they do/like a trope/whatever and as long as you at least sort of imply that they are stupid for doing so.

But all of that is trolling if you don't care about it, so instead maybe make it about something in fandom that you love or hate that you wouldn't readily admit in public. Write about how you masturbated to 'that' part in It (the book), write about how you wish people would stop talking about Breaking Bad/Game of Thrones/whatever, write about how you loved Rainbow Brite/California Dreams/Small Wonder/whatever. It just has to be something that people are interested in and want to put their two cents in about.

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