[ SECRET POST #4396 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4396 ⌋

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

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02.
[Orwell: Ignorance is Strength]


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03.
[Russell Howard, "Recalibrate"]


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04.
[D. L. Hughley, Jimmy Carr and Katherine Ryan on The Fix on Netflix]


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05.
[A Star is Born]


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06.
[John Malkovich as Hercule Poirot in The ABC Murders]


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07.
[Andrew Knowlton, restaurant editor for Bon Appétit magazine and host on The Final Table]


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08.
[Exo/Cross Fire - Fonda Lee]








Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 08 secrets from Secret Submission Post #629.
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.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I don't like the series, but being annoyed about everyone getting together in a hetero ship in a shojo manga is like being annoyed about there being a tournament fight in a shonen manga. If you didn't want it, you shouldn't have read that manga.

[(Anonymous)]

Seriously. Like IDK what to tell you, OP, but shoujo manga are generally full of het romances. That's just part of the genre.

[(Anonymous)]

Not that anon, but it's not that there are hetero relationships in a shoujo, more like pairing up every relevant character at the last minute regardless of building a relationship up for them at all. Pair the spares as it's called. It's just unnecessary. Like the main character ending up in a relationship is a given, but not every single named character has to get paired up in the end.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, but this one teased several queer relationships only to pull a "nope, straights everywhere" ending. And the canon gay pairing? Nope, one of them was actually a girl.

[(Anonymous)]

I mostly hate that the mangaka pretended that the gender reveal was planned that way all along. I really doubt that, tbh. It really felt a lot like the mangaka just wanted to pull a lazy "OMG bet you didn't expect THAT" gotcha.

[(Anonymous)]

NAYRT but that's what bothered me most about it. I was cool with all the het, it was a shoujo manga after all, and it's what I expected. But there was HELLA queer baiting, and that bait and switch soured me so much.