[ SECRET POST #4523 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4523 ⌋

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

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02.
[The Sound of Music]


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03.
(Dead by Daylight)


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04.
[The Mummy Returns]


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05.
[Aladdin]


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06.
[Criminal Minds, S05E23 "Our Darkest Hour", S06E01 "The Longest Night"]


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07.
[ReBoot: The Guardian Code]













Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 38 secrets from Secret Submission Post #648.
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

Re: Fandom secrets you're too lazy to make...

[(Anonymous)]

N!S: I'm a lesbian. I almost exclusively ship/create content for M/M pairings.

S: I say it's because I enjoy the freedom that comes with not worrying or becoming detached from my work if I'm being completely accurate on the sexytimes because I can never 100% put myself into the scene, but the truth is because I'm deeply uncomfortable with het and lesbian media. I've become so tired of women not being allowed to have their own stories without a romantic component that any interest I have shuts down immediately as soon as an "attraction" is present. Men get to have adventures without falling in love. Why can't women?

Re: Fandom secrets you're too lazy to make...

[(Anonymous)]

So like... if there were stories about women having adventures without falling in love, do you think you would like het and f/f romance storylines more?

Also, what if the relationship or attraction is purely sexual?

Re: Fandom secrets you're too lazy to make...

[(Anonymous)]

Honestly, probably yes. Well, maybe not het as much just because of my own personal inclinations, but I'd be much much more happy to take in f/f romance if "women = romance" wasn't such a pervasive must-have.

Ah, I'm sorry, I didn't take the separation into account; in my case, sexual and romantic attraction go hand-in-hand. So I'd feel the same if it was purely sexual, yes.

Re: Fandom secrets you're too lazy to make...

[(Anonymous)]

I think I understand this. There are definitely things I have a hair-trigger Do Not Want reaction to simply because they feel so pervasive and inescapable. Stuff like "Character didn't mean to get pregnant but decides to keep the baby." There's nothing inherently wrong with that trope, but up until the last couple years it was basically the only way the "knocked up" story line ever went. Each time I encountered it, I disliked it a little bit more, until I got to the point where just the very thought of it pisses me off big time.

Or the way rape is so often treated like, "It is the Very Worst Thing that can happen to a woman and if it happens to her she will be Broken." Again, it's not wrong to frame rape as horrible and devastating, but the fact that this is almost the only way rape is ever addressed in fiction makes me haaaaate most instances of rape in fiction.

It's the sense that people believe there's only one way to write a thing (i.e. female characters must always be deeply influenced and shaped by romantic love) that gets under my skin.

Re: Fandom secrets you're too lazy to make...

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, those are other very good examples of things under the same umbrella of what bothers me so much. Female characters are so strongly constructed around who is attracted to them. In a recent example, even Arya wasn't allowed to escape being tied to a romantic/sexual subplot, and that gutted me in a really weird way. Of all the characters, I thought maybe she might be the one allowed to stand on her own, so it was... rough, to lose that.

Re: Fandom secrets you're too lazy to make...

[11thmirror]

I completely agree