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fandomsecrets2008-12-14 05:14 pm
case) wrote in fandomsecrets2008-12-14 05:14 pm
[ SECRET POST #709 ]
⌈ Secret Post #709 ⌋
Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.
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Notes:
Secrets Left to Post: 17 pages, 416 secrets from Secret Submission Post #102.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 2 3 4 - not!secrets ], [ 1 - not!fandom ], [ 1 2 - too big ], [ 1 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.
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112. Iron Council by China Mieveille, The Fall of the Kings by Ellen Kushner and Delia Sherman, Songmaster by Orson Scott Card, The Liar by Stephen Fry, The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin, Biting the Sun by Tanith Lee, The Invention of Love by Tom Stoppard; and for musicals check out RENT, Falsettoland, and Kiss of the Spider Woman (but for the love of god, avoid Bounce! -- Sondheim was taking the bad drugs when he decided it would be a good idea to make a musical about gay guys in real estate in Boca fucking Raton).
121. LOL. <3
132. Dear Jesus, that woman is unattractive. X_X
137. You're clearly hanging around with the wrong guys on the wrong forums. Or just doing it wrong. What you do, see, is let them assume you're male until they decide you're cool, then enlighten them. In my experience, when you do it that way, they'll generally presume you're hot as well as kind of a neat person to hang out with.
150. That show stopped being clever to me when I was about 13. Trust me, it's not that intellectual. It's still just The Fresh Prince of Bel Aire after raping a thesaurus.
156. RIGHT HERE *WAVEWAVEWAVE*
167. How is this a secret? Also, congratulations on being able to copypasta every single coherent rant ever made agreeing with you. You're not saying anything new or interesting. Not to mention for someone who thinks they have something to say, you're making it awfully difficult for anyone to read you. GTFO.
173. Your persecution complex is showing.
174. I actually agree with you, when applicable to fandoms that actually aren't geared towards the wuvvy duvvy shit *COUGHMETALOCALYPSECOUGH*
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(Anonymous) 2008-12-14 11:13 pm (UTC)(link)Re: 132
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It seriously pissed me off how they "fixed" that in Oblivion... by telling you with a little red marker which characters are essential to the plot, and then making them unkillable. Not to mention that whole level-based monster/treasure generation bullshit. I LIKED the sense of deep, pervading terror that came from knowing that at any moment, if I leave the safety of the towns (or even if you don't!!), I might turn a corner and find myself face-to-face with an Atronach or a Centurion or be mobbed by cliffracers or stumble into a crypt full of vampires or a Daedric shrine full of worshippers who want to kill me or piss off an Indoril guard (them shits is SCARY) or be poisoned by a Kwama or any number of seemingly infinite other ways to die in that game.
Oblivion took all of that out.
Effing pussified game, if you ask me.
*edit for appropriate icon use*
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Treasure doesn't bother me too much because I found I'm a natural hoarder who steals everything that's not bolted down and then sell it to the nearest pawnbroker (or make ridiculous quantities of potions I don't even need).
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I'm also a thief-player. If I can pick it up, I HAVE TO TAKE IT. even if it means having to restart the game 8 times to not get caught. The thing is, with Oblivion, there's nothing worth stealing like there is in Morrowind. In Morrowind, I figured out how I could get to steal the Master's mortar & pestle at level 1 and have it from then on to make better potions with my stolen ingredients so I could then always have invisibnility and levitation potions. In Oblivion, you couldn't do that -- because the Master's stuff wouldn't even EXIST IN THE GAME until you were leveled up high enough. I actually have a system to break into the Hlaalu treasury at level 3.
You also can't crossdress in Oblivion. Any clothing you steal is automatically gender-appropriate. If your male character loots a skirt off a female NPC, it shows up in your inventory as pants.
It's lame on top of lame with a side-order of lame.
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(Anonymous) 2008-12-14 11:25 pm (UTC)(link)Re: 173
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(Anonymous) 2008-12-14 11:47 pm (UTC)(link)Re: 173
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99% or more of all non-canon shipping in any fandom is inherently OOC fapfodder from chapter 1, word 1. The vast majority of people taking part in shipping shenanigans don't give a good god damn how realistic it is -- they're there for the totes hawt boikissing and surpries buttsecks. People in fandoms where Teh Gay is canon are largely (by no means exclusively, but largely) there for similar reasons.
That means if you're writing fic whose sole purpose is to have Gay Character A and Opposite-Gender Character B do it like they do on the Discovery channel, you're not going to drum up much interest because you're trying to appeal to an audience that just isn't there. On the other hand, if you make a well-written, in-character story about Gay Character A, during which he-or-she happens to have a roll-in-zee-hay with Opposite-Gender Character B, under circumstances and with reasons that are believable for Gay Character A, with equally believable consequences, the part of your audience that IS there because they specifically like the character and canon in question for reasons other than its homosexual content will probably not have a problem with it, and the ones who are only there for the pr0n don't count, as they are doing nothing but proclaiming their ignorance to the world if they want to pick fights over every instance of well-written non-canon fiction that does not conform to their personal fetish.
And if the fandom in question doesn't seem to have a significant following who prioritizes interest in character/canon before interest in Teh Gay, you may want to seek a fandom that attracts a more mature audience.
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(Anonymous) 2008-12-15 12:19 am (UTC)(link)Re: 101 OP
It's available on X-Box (NOT 360) or PC. The PC version actually comes with the construction kit. Meaning that if you can figure out how to do it, you can go into the game and change anything. Add houses, add cities, build your own weapons, make characters who look like celebrities (or you, or your mom, or anyone you've got a good photo of), clothing, objects, dialogue, quests, monsters, etc. I can't do it, but there's an immense number of mods out there for the game. Frankly, I prefer it unmodded, but the fact that you can DO that is a great reflection of the spirit in which the game was made. A lot of the game developers (and artists, and voice actors) actually post to the official forums. It really is an awesome game with an equally awesome community, though it's gotten a little less awesome since interest from Oblivion died down and a lot of the people who'd been around since Daggerfall moved on to other things. Still -- a lot of the lore does reflect the involvement of the players. Many of the characters in Morrowind are named after people who made the game. A sequel to the main plot was actually role-played on the official forums by the developers and people who were part of what used to be the only, and official, RP on the forums. Many of the in-game stories, and stories posted by the developers after the game's release, incorporate names of forum members. Plus the developers have this really cool thing where they don't ignore programming errors and shortcomings in the game -- they incorporate them into the lore. For example, the moons -- In Morrowind, the night sky actually changes over time, to reflect the phases of the two moons and the shifting stars. When it was programmed, the programmers forgot to account for the shadowed portion of the moons -- so when the moons are halves or crescents, you can see stars behind what would, with our moon, be black. Rather than ignore this as a programming error or fix it in a later update, they decided that the moons are not, in fact, made of rock or metal or gas or anything else. They're not even actually spheres. They're the bodies of two dead gods rotting in the sky. A crescent moon is seeing it from another angle.
So yeah. Seriously... amazing, amazing game.
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♥ ♥ Good memories. I'm still apprehensive about dungeon-diving in Sixth House shrines and Dwemer ruins. :[ I only wish Oblivion had been better.
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And discovered it was actually kind of boring running around at Level Uber being worshipped by every NPC in the game, so I deleted it and went back to my aimless maraudering.
:D
Though I will say, if you haven't played the main quest up to the bit in the Ashlands and Azura's shrine, it's worth doing, because it gets very surreal and metaphysical and it's actually quite beautifully done. And Azura's ghosts give you awesome loot. >.>
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Azura and her dead pals give you way too much stuff. :[ I had to end up leaving a lot of it behind.
But really, my favorite part of the game is just trying to cover all the land! It's awesome that it marks where you've been on the map, so it's just so rewarding to try and go over it all! And the sky at night is just so beautiful~.
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(Anonymous) 2008-12-15 04:41 am (UTC)(link)101
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In all other respects, it's pussified, though.