[ SECRET POST #4343 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4343 ⌋

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

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Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 43 secrets from Secret Submission Post #622.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
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Comments

[fscom]

General comments:

(If the thread contains spoilery/triggery content please warn/post as 2nd comment so it collapses!
Please collapse images, too!)

Fantastic Beasts Discussion

[(Anonymous)]

I want to discuss it, and I can't find any discussion anywhere. I want actual discussion about having seen it, not about how you don't plan on seeing it or haven't seen it yet. What did everyone think? Love it, hate it...?

Spoilers, obviously.

Re: Fantastic Beasts Discussion

[(Anonymous)]

Placeholder so it collapses (once there are more comments, anyway.)

Re: Fantastic Beasts Discussion

[(Anonymous)]

It was so stupid. Just...convoluted to the max. Apparently, like Star Wars, everyone in the HP universe is related to every one else.

Re: Fantastic Beasts Discussion

[(Anonymous)]

I'm gonna vague this up because I'm not sure when the comments collapse, but the final twist about a Certain Someone being a Long Lost Brother of a Certain Someone was so fucking stupid.
This, Cursed Child, the epilogue - I really am increasingly convinced that JK is trawling FF.net for story ideas.

Re: Fantastic Beasts Discussion

[(Anonymous)]

The whole subplot with Queenie was really stupid, on every possible level. Her actions make no sense from a Doylist or Watsonian perspective.
Also the HP!verse really needs to make up its mind about whether mind-controlling people into loving you is fucked up or nah [spoiler alert: yes it fucking is].

Re: Fantastic Beasts Discussion

[ayebydan]

I liked it but there are a lot of questions for me. Many many timelines just don't add up. Dumbledore family included. Either she is changing past canon or can't count or it is not true. All of which are possible but JK just seems to come out with random shit these days.

I thought the circus and Nagini would play a bigger part.

Jude was amazing and so was Eddie. I loved all the creatures so that means they are doing the base things right.

I think this film suffered from trying to tell too many stories and set up too many things for the last three films and did not pull it off as well as it could have but it is still a good film. I think kids will adore it.

Re: Fantastic Beasts Discussion

[malurette]

I didn't hate it but I couldn't love it entirely either. I felt they... just tried to hard to up everything.

I am mad as hell about what they did with Queenie, what they did to Leta, and how they pulled out that Aurelius crap. Disappointed on Nagini.
I'm relieved that Tina was treated fairly well.
And I'm in absolute love with both Scamander brothers and their relationship, it's exactly what I need in my fandoms at the moment.
Disappointed of course in the cowardly way they hid Dumbledore's love for Grindelwald.
And of course the visuals were awesome, but that doesn't make up for the plot.

I really hope FB3 fixes what is still salvageable but I won't hold much hope.

Re: Fantastic Beasts Discussion

[(Anonymous)]

I say this as someone who's been an actual fan of JKR for many years and loved the first film: It was a hot mess. I saw it in theatres and read the screenplay, and I still don't understand half of what was going on.

There were way too many subplots. Leta's story was interesting but unnecessary except as an oh-so-clever red herring just so we could have the BIG REVEAL at the end. Which is a dubious reveal.

My biggest complaint is that I thought we were finally, finally going to get some moral ambiguity, but no, it was the same old good versus evil bullshit with a half-assed (and failed) attempt to make the evil look slicker.

I did enjoy Jude Law's Dumbledore very much, and the mirror scene was beautiful and heartbreaking (and unmistakably gay IMO).

But for the first time in my HP fan life, I have zero interest in the next installment and doubt I'll even buy this one on DVD.

Re: Fantastic Beasts Discussion

[(Anonymous)]

And it never collapsed because it was the first comment and you are officially the biggest dick here. So thanks? Glad you got your actual discussion and those of us who don't have a spare £15 until next month don't need to bother now.

Re: Fantastic Beasts Discussion

[(Anonymous)]

I know this is not the intent of the thread but can someone spoil everything for me?
I can't sit upright for long enough to see it in the cinema so I won't see it until it's streaming and I want to know now.

Re: Fantastic Beasts Discussion

[(Anonymous)]

Really trying to get the comments to collapse. Not that just one will do it, but it might speed the process along.

Based on #3

[(Anonymous)]

Have you ever deleted a fandom account(s)? Did you find another way to keep in touch?

Re: Based on #3

[(Anonymous)]

I deleted my LJ years and years back for a while because of some major drama. However, while I didn't use any other social media for fandom purposes, I had AIM, MSN and Yahoo Messenger (yeah, this goes BACK) and kept in touch that way. I don't think I deleted my LJ for terribly long, just long enough for drama to blow over.

Honestly, the weirdest part was that someone IMed me saying she knew how I felt. She wouldn't tell me her fandom name, just that she'd had trouble with wank as well. I've always wondered who that was.

Re: Based on #3

[nightscale]

I never full-deleted my first LJ but I did basically disappear without a word when I left and never looked back.

Sometimes I wonder if I should have kept in contact with the nice person on my friends list but at the same time I doubt they even remember me.

Re: Based on #3

[ayebydan]

I deleted lj after another round of their bs but I had been cross posting from her for over a year before that and gave plenty of warnings that I was moving and my other contacts so figured if they were true friends they would even keep an email and if not, so what.

Re: Based on #3

[(Anonymous)]

Didn't delete, but I just left Gaia because most of my friends left. Sadly, I didn't have any other way of communicating with my online friends, but I hope they're doing well.

Re: Based on #3

[(Anonymous)]

I did, once the fandom died and the comms I belonged to stopped being flocked and modded. It was fun while it lasted, tho.

Re: Based on #3

[soldatsasha]

When I left my ex, I did my best to completely purge the internet everything that could have even vaguely been linked back to me. I think all that's left are my original FF.net and deviant art accounts. I deleted all my email accounts, neopets, LJ, IJ, all of it.

For the most part, no. I was too paranoid that if I did keep in touch with anyone, she might find my new accounts.

Tumblr: the strikethrough

[(Anonymous)]

Where's everyone going to? I've seen mastodon, pillowfort, and twitter.

What media are you looking forward to in 2019?

[(Anonymous)]

^^^^^^^^^^

I have one question for you cats

[(Anonymous)]

Are you playing Christmas music yet?

Advice/ Thread

[(Anonymous)]

^^^

Favorite non traditional fantasy settings

[(Anonymous)]

Enough of the grassland moors

Vent/rant thread

[(Anonymous)]

Sad? Mad? Bad and dangerous to know? Post your gripes here!