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⌈ Secret Post #686 ⌋

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101.

[Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium]

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102.

[Hana Yori Dango/Eyeshield 21]

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103.

[Mad Men, Don/Betty]

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104.

[John Lenon / Todd Rungren]

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105.

[Tudors, Thomas More]

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106.

[Be Kind Rewind]

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107.

[Koukou Debut]

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108.

[Angry Video Game Nerd]

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109.

[The Spiderwick Chronicles]

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110.

[Twitch City/Trainspotting]

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111.

[Steven Moffat/Dr. Who]

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112.

[Stargate Atlantis]

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113.

[Eagle Eye]

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114.

[Meat Loaf/Patti Russo]

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115.

[Moral Orel]

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117.

[Beauty and the Beast]

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118.

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119.

[Merlin/Sword in the Stone]

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[Testees]

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123.

[Addams Family]

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125.

[House MD]

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126.

[Gears of War]

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127.

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128.

[6teen]

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129.

[Kristen Stewart]

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130.

[Penelope, Christina Ricci]

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131.

[Afterellen.com Vloggers]

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132.

[Pangur Ban series by Fay Sampson]

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134.

[Ghost World]

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135.

[Avatar]

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141.

[Supernatural]

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142.

[Jeffery Dean Morgan]

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143.

[From Eroica with Love]

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144.

[The Pillows]

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145.

[Devil Wears Prada]

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146.

[Superjail]

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148.

[Jason/Elizabeth, General Hospital]

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150.

[House MD]

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152.

[Little Dorrit]

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153.

[Emil Jannings]

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154.

[Pilotwings]

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155.

[House of Flying Daggers, Fullmetal Alchemist]

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156.

[The Hunchback of Notre Dame]

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157.

[Wonderfalls | Pushing Daisies]

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158.

[Oomph!, Dero]

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159.

[The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford]

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160.

[Moral Orel]

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163.

[Merlin]

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164.

[D.Gray-man]

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166.

[Ultimate Ninja - Nagano Makoto & Takeda Toshihiro]

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169.

[A Bit of Fry and Laurie, Mighty Boosh, Fall Out Boy, The Sideshow]

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170.

[Dan Savage/"Stephen Colbert"; bonus Terry Miller]

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172.

[Ace Attorney]

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TF has a different aesthetic that's generally more women-friendly. Since women are the ones writing slash, attracting women means attracting slash. The fact that it came in The Orange Box only helped that, I think.

Huh. The aesthetic in question, would you say it's the aesthetic of the graphics, design and presentation or the game mechanics themselves? I really am curious as to where and how this explosion of slash between men who... really AREN'T, as the OP here writes, 120-pound waifs with silver hair came from!

Like, is it the old clichee of "women prefer team-work games to single-player gorefests" etc in action or is it more a question of how the game looks? Or maybe both?

I think it has a lot to do with how the game looks and how it was marketed. Yes, it's an FPS, yes it's got an all-male cast, but the cast isn't made up of 300 pound beefcakes with railguns, the whole game hasn't been run through grey filters to make it look grungy, and the way that it was presented to the audience was as something kind of humourous and lighthearted, for a game where you have to shoot people up. Gears of War, on the other hand, proudly totes itself as another in a long line of games of its kind, all of which have been culturally labelled "FOR BOYS".

I think just going back and looking at advertisements for Gears of War and games like Gears of War would show a lot, but it seems like every year we get one or two new games that are basically presented as "A guy in armor shoots things."

http://loot-ninja.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/haze.jpg
http://data.earthli.com/news/attachments/entry/1287/gears_of_war.jpeg
http://www.gbposters.com/image/image/3155/FP1960-HALO-3-fight.jpg
http://crispen.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/06/06/fallout3.jpg
http://www.marnscda.com/downloads/NerdsGM/wallpaper_killzone_06_1024.jpg
http://dlb-network.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/socom-confrontation-1588.jpg
http://www.xboxer.tv/Call%20of%20Duty%203.jpg

http://www.invision-gaming.co.uk/js/tiny_mce/plugins/imagemanager/images/games/team_fortress_2.jpg

Oh yes, I see what you mean. And I am also struck by how diverse the characters of Team Fortress look like compared to the others. They are all very generic designs, bulky men in armor designed to appeal to those who like bulky men in armor, with very little color and differing characteristics inbetween them. Large, diverse and colorful casts is something that ALWAYS gets my creative centers flowing (part of the reason I am unreasonably in love with almost all of ArcSys fighting games) and start thinking "What if character x and y met up and did this and that", and I can see now how Team Fortress's cast, with it's different builds, different colors and roles to play could spark creativity more than "Game X featuring Identical Man in Armor 245 and his 5000 clones".

Exactly! I also think that showing the face tends to help, and that the generally different aesthetic in PUSHING the game helps. For example, Half-Life features Guy In a Suit Killing Bad Things, BUT, compare and contrast the poster:

http://haranded.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/wallpaper_half-life_2_01_1280.jpg

It also helps that he's not bulky, I guess, but Gordon Freeman on the whole seems like much more of an individual and stands apart from the others.

Yup. Feels a lot more... serene than many other posters. Less focus on bulk and crowbar-ing grotesque slimethings as it seems to be on the environment and how out of place Gordon seems to be in this desolate, but not entirely grey and bland city. There's not a lot of action going on in the poster, so it speaks to a very different mindset than the other posters end up doing.

Although I must admit that now, I find it slightly humorous that despite having several more games to his name than the TF-dudes, Gordon has markedly less fic about him. Or slash. Or gen. Or anything. Good old mute protagonist. How I dislike them.

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