[ SECRET POST #4375 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4375 ⌋

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

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(Madam Secretary)


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[Doctor Who S11E06, "Demons of the Punjab"]


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[Dark on Netflix]


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(Madam Secretary)


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 10 secrets from Secret Submission Post #626.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Whatcha doing today, FS?

[(Anonymous)]

Tell us!

Re: Whatcha doing today, FS?

[(Anonymous)]

This week of weird limbo between Christmas and New Years, I'm off one day, working the next, off the next day, working the next, and so on, all damn week. Ugh it's annoying, BUT, today I'm off and I went to brunch at Lazy Dog with my husband, washed dishes, and am currently on my last load of laundry.

Re: Whatcha doing today, FS?

[kaijinscendre]

Went to the mall. Bought a new bra that fits and got a bath bomb at Lush.

Re: Whatcha doing today, FS?

[philstar22]

Work, now home doing laundry. Have to do big family dinner, then I get to go to bed. 1 hour of sleep last night, so all I'm thinking about is sleep.

Re: Whatcha doing today, FS?

[(Anonymous)]

I finally got around to cleaning out the kitchen and throwing away all the ancient spices and melted Tupperware. I feel so accomplished! My room's next, but I need to wait until trash day because I filled the bins.

Re: Whatcha doing today, FS?

[(Anonymous)]

Had to work. Tomorrow too. I want to rearrange my bedroom so hopefully I will have the energy on the weekend.

Re: Whatcha doing today, FS?

[(Anonymous)]

Screwing around at my cousins' house all day. And also helping them cut down trees in the woods near their house.

Favorite and least favorite Harry Potter characters

[(Anonymous)]

Who are they and why?

Re: Favorite and least favorite Harry Potter characters

[(Anonymous)]

Molly Weasley. To call her a good mother is fucking laughable. Just because she's nice to Harry and occasionally shows warmth doesn't change the nearly-brazen neglect that she subjects the rest of her brood to. I hate it, and I hate that I'm supposed to accept her as some paragon of motherhood that should be aspired to.

Re: Favorite and least favorite Harry Potter characters

[kaijinscendre]

Favorite is Professor McGonagall. Don't really got a least favorite.

Re: Favorite and least favorite Harry Potter characters

[morieris]

Ernie MacMillan - I found his pompousness absolutely hilarious. I wish we saw more of him.

Also Ron bc I like his straightforwadness.

I don't feel strongly enough against any character, I guess Sirius is a bit annoying.

Re: Favorite and least favorite Harry Potter characters

[philstar22]

Favorites: Neville, Mcgonagall, Luna, Hermione, Hagrid, Tonks

Least favorites: Molly, Pettigrew, Fudge, Snape

Re: Favorite and least favorite Harry Potter characters

[(Anonymous)]

I always liked Dobby and Firenze and thought it was weird and shitty that there wasn't any closure on the problem of intelligent non-humans being treated like animals or slaves.

Still very much dislike Snape.

Re: Favorite and least favorite Harry Potter characters

[(Anonymous)]

Favourites: Luna, because she was the one I identified with most as a kid. Neville, because there were bits of those books where he felt like the single most rational, solid thing there. Snape, because his was the story/character arc I was most interested in among the older generation, even if I didn't really like where it ended up going in the end (Lily, specifically).

Least favourites: Honestly, most of the characters I didn't like I also didn't really care about all that much. The character that still gets the most complicated emotional response from me, though, was Dumbledore. He just ... as you aged with the books and looked at him in hindsight, pretty much all his flaws and justifications do make sense for who he is and was. They just really hurt a lot at the time.

Also, and this is likely blasphemy, but Dobby. Mostly because pretty much all the story arcs around him were just painful for me. The whole issue of house elves was one I just started to hate more and more as we went on, and Dobby's evolution/devolution into a tragic, pathetic martyr just wasn't a plot I enjoyed.

Re: Favorite and least favorite Harry Potter characters

[rosehiptea]

Favorite is probably Luna. I'm not sure if I have a least favorite but I'm not fond of Draco Malfoy and by the end I didn't like Dumbledore a whole lot either.

Re: Favorite and least favorite Harry Potter characters

[soldatsasha]

Favorites: Harry bc a lot of reasons. Ron bc he's refreshingly regular in a series overflowing with Super Cool Characters. Snape pre-DH because I thought he had the most interesting character/arc of the older generation characters. Krum bc he's just genuinely cool and nice, despite being surrounded by dark wizards and being a major celebrity.

Least Favorites: Molly for the reasons stated above. Dumbledore, for similar reasons. Umbridge and Pettigrew bc no shit. Bellatrix bc I found her really ott and not in an entertaining or believable way. Lupin bc, despite how cool I thought he was when I was younger, I now realize that he was a classic shitty absentee "cool relative" type, who was only around for Harry when it was convenient and who put in less than the bare minimum of effort into their relationship.

Major Mixed Feelings: Hermione. She was one of my faves as a kid, but now I don't like how awful she is to the people around her. She's very much like a mini Molly in how she treats Ron, Harry, Neville, the house-elves, even Ginny and Luna and others. Like bc she's so smart she automatically knows best. It's a very realistic character flaw, but by and large the books don't actually acknowledge it.

It leaves the impression that JKR isn't aware that it's not okay to act like Molly or Hermione. (And wow, I just realized that Ron/Hermione is the 'marrying his mother' trope which is horrible on so many levels.)

Many characters in HP are colored by Harry's perceptions of them. People like Molly and Lupin seem really awesome if you view them through the eyes of an orphan with a horrible abusive family. But I have to wonder how different they and many other characters would seem if you were seeing them from the perspective of someone like Cedric or Tonks, who seem to be more well-adjusted.

Re: Favorite and least favorite Harry Potter characters

[(Anonymous)]

Favorites: Luna because I related to her, even though as I got older I realized it was more that I wished I related to her (I was weird and had almost no friends, but I was incredibly self-conscious where Luna wasn't). Neville because I always love characters who start out wimpy and become strong.

Least favorites: Ginny. I thought she was cute in Chamber of Secrets and could potentially be a favorite, but she became boring in the following books and slightly annoying in the last couple. And every so often some bullshit feminist thinkpiece about how she's an amazing feminist icon and unfairly hated female character because she dates lots of boys. Nice try but that doesn't make a female character amazing and has nothing to do with why most of us don't like her.

Re: Favorite and least favorite Harry Potter characters

[(Anonymous)]

I like the heroes and I hate Snape and Draco

sue me

The recs thread!

[(Anonymous)]

Got recs? Need recs? Post them here!

Based On 8

[(Anonymous)]

What, upon rewatch, did you realize was not as good as you remember?

Looking for drama

[(Anonymous)]

Because it’s driving me crazy I can only remember part of this right now.

Many many years ago, there was huge con drama where people fun raised for a chick that lost her litter of puppies from a blue buffalo recall and she used the money and went to a con with it where she hooked up with another woman. It’s been driving me crazy because I was trying to tell the story to another young fan and I just couldn’t remember.

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