[ SECRET POST #5152 ]

[case]

⌈ Secret Post #5152 ⌋

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


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07. https://imgur.com/A1VEpM5.png
[Ephemeral Rift on Youtube, linked b/c OP warned for needle imagery]


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08. [WARNING for mention of dubcon/noncon]



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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 31 secrets from Secret Submission Post #737.
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

[fscom]

11. [WARNING for mention of rape]
https://i.imgur.com/xIJJ49j.jpg

[(Anonymous)]

I hate when rape is used as a plot device like that.

[philstar22]

Agreed. If there is rape in a story, it needs to be there for a reason, and it needs to be dealt with properly and with respect to the character(s) who are the victims.

[(Anonymous)]

Ugh I hate shit like this.

[(Anonymous)]

For me, it wasn't so much the last minute twist but all the high school relationship drama that turned me off. In my opinion, The Left/Right Game is much better (and no non-con!).

[(Anonymous)]

That story is so good!!!

[(Anonymous)]

Okay can someone spoil the end of this for me so I don't have to google. WTF is "rape farm"?

[(Anonymous)]

I don't know anything about the sequel. But in the original (as far as I can remember), there was basically this whole mystery about teenagers disappearing in this town. Their names would be carved into a tree, there were weird noises coming from the mountains, stuff like that.

In the end, it is revealed that the sheriff and other adults in the town are kidnapping teenage girls to rape and impregnate. I think families in the town would adopt the babies and they would sale them.

The main characters best friend was kidnapped and he saw her at this place. He had to run away and leave her there.

[(Anonymous)]

The friend escaped in the end, it was his older sister that he left behind. I only listened to half of the sequel, I think it was about his friend finding the main character and asking him to join her in dismantling the ring.

[(Anonymous)]

DA Ooh, now I remember that story. I just never listened to it because it dragged so much and after a point it was obvious what it was leading up to so I didn't bother.

[(Anonymous)]

Honestly, that sounds like some real life religious cults....

[(Anonymous)]

They could have gone that route and it would've been more believable. From what remember of this series, all the adult men in town who in some positions of authority were just in on it for... reasons, and the biggest twist that the narrator's father was also part of it, raping his captive daughter (the missing older sister) this entire time!

That was just too big of a shock factor for me, to the point that it destroyed suspension of disbelief.

[(Anonymous)]

I wish there had been ?spoiler? Alert? This was on my "to listen" list...and now...ehhh

I do think Left/Right hand was amazing. I haven't listened to the podcast, but I read the no sleep and it was WHOA.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm curious how a reddit story got a tv deal. Was the author approached, or did the author send it out to an agent after seeing the success?

[(Anonymous)]

I thought it was a well-writen story and can see how it got a TV deal. The ending also got me a little uncomfortable but didn't think it was terribly approached or meant any disrespect to anybody. It was written as horror after all.

[(Anonymous)]

Not directly a response to the secret itself, but I want to let anyone who knows the story only up to the big reveal (which I think is where the podcast ends) know that there is a part five. That’s all I’ll say, but in my opinion it’s worth it. It especially expands on the lasting trauma the main characters have.

That said, I didn’t feel like the rape in the story was gratuitous or cheap. I felt like it was treated as the absolute horror it should be. If the issue is that you don’t like “it turned out not to be a supernatural monster after all” endings, that’s one thing, and it’s also fair if you just plain don’t like stories with rape involved, but I don’t think it’s done badly for what it is.

I’m not gonna say you have to agree with me by any means. This is just what I think personally.

[(Anonymous)]

I agree, I think everyone is jumping to conclusions because OP made it sound like it was used just for shock value, which is further from the truth.

[(Anonymous)]

I am another reader who felt the original ending leaned too hard on shock factor. I think people should check it out and decide for themselves, it's a pretty good read up until that point.

[(Anonymous)]

Ugh, that was the worst episode. The story was overly long, all the characters were terrible, the twist was telegraphed a mile away and it was such a cheap way to manipulate the audience's feelings, like just slamming the "rape is scary, right????" button to win the round in a fighting game. Still pisses me off when I think about it, and I also can't understand why it's so popular, OP.

[(Anonymous)]

Man, I hated that story. I don't even mind rape in stories if it's handled well, but idk the way this one kinda sprang the massive rape farm on the reader after it had built up an interesting supernatural thing just felt gross?? Idk what it is about the story, it's one of the few stories that left me feeling icky inside

[(Anonymous)]

This is part of why I prefer /r/nosleep one-shots. The writers so often fail to stick the landing on these longform stories, turning what had up until that point been compelling reads into big disappointments. This isn't even the only "popular" series that relied on rape as a twist, just maybe the most egregious example.