[ SECRET POST #5219 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5219 ⌋

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


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02.
[Wind in the Willows]


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["A Little Princess" by Frances Hodgson Burnett]


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04.
[Live-action Powerpuff girls reboot]


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05.
[Shadow and Bone]


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06.
[Vivy - Fluorite Eye's Song]


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07.
(The Queen's Gambit)








Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 27 secrets from Secret Submission Post #747.
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

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Name the fandom. And repeats, etc.

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01. https://i.imgur.com/3ik1lYH.jpg

[(Anonymous)]

It's not just you. I was super happy to find out there are lots of translated webnovels online and then... I actually tried to read them. :-/

[(Anonymous)]

Lol you're not racist. You don't have those novels because they're Chinese, you hate those particular Chinese novels because they're badly written.

[(Anonymous)]

If you were racist, you wouldn't be interested in checking out this media in the first place.

[(Anonymous)]

Having read only a translated Romance of the Three Kingdoms (lol yeah I know), there is a lot I'm willing to chalk up to a culture's entire concept of literature and what they've been accustomed to in writing for centuries without influence from other modes of writing. It makes me actually really worried about trying to read modern novels, because how do I determine what is actually poorly written versus written in a way I'm not accustomed to but speakers of this language have been writing that way for 2500 years? RotTK is at least old enough that I can also chalk it up to history but...still.

On the flip side, reasons Lord of the Rings never caught on in Japan until the movies is exactly this - the writing is hard to translate into Japanese in such a way as to preserve what Tolkien's original language(s) was conveying, such that a lot of people in Japan just weren't interested. Despite writing their own fantasy novels about creatures and wars and magic powers. So is it bad or is it just...a style I haven't learned to appreciate?

[(Anonymous)]

They're trash. Like I don't think anyone is pretending they're not? Some of them are explicitly meta making fun of how trashy they are. Most things fandom goes gaga for are trash, so this should not be a surprise.

But I was afraid I was being racist for hating most of the high-concept SF coming out of China (like Liu Cixin) and it was reassuring to try some Danmei and realize that no, I just prefer trash, as usual.

[(Anonymous)]

You're not racist necessarily but let's not pretend western original webnovels/self published novels wrote by amateurs aren't shit just as much, even without needing to be translated from an entirely different language. That's kinda the thing with self published stuff. Pretending like only the Chinese stuff is especially bad would be kinda racist. As would be assuming all Chinese webnovels are shit just because the few you've tried weren't great, considering there are thousands of those novels around.

What I dislike about these secrets (of which we've had a few by now) is this weirdly smug satisfaction shining through about how them Chinese novels are so especially crappy after all. That is a bit sus, not gonna lie. (I also don't necessarily agree btw. - very few people actually say they're great, flawlessly written literature but not all of them are as terrible as some people pretend. They tend to be low-brow entertainment, which is what they're written for and at the very least, they have fairly novel plots/topics for western readers, which is the main appeal imo.)

[(Anonymous)]

Much of the scene can effectively be likened to 'Chinese Harlequin Romance'. There's a huge market for it and it's totally cool to be or not to be into them.

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02. https://i.imgur.com/Rb8tgYb.jpg
[Wind in the Willows]

[greghousesgf]

I always loved that scene.

[tabaqui]

*happy sigh*

I would *love* to have a picnic like that!
And kudos for the word 'riparian' - it's an awesome word, and not used enough.

[meadowphoenix]

oh man, i agree I am always jealous of successful fictional picnics. i can't control the weather or company or insects enough to be sure of success in real life!

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03. https://i.imgur.com/eq0e9dG.jpg
["A Little Princess" by Frances Hodgson Burnett]

[(Anonymous)]

No, no, that makes perfect sense to me. When you're low, another person going to an effort to make things nice for you, to bring warmth and light into your day, that can be such an intensely meaningful thing.

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04. https://i.ibb.co/rt21rF6/Eyy55g-Vc-AA73-E.jpg
[Live-action Powerpuff girls reboot]

[(Anonymous)]

If this were made in the nineties, Bubbles would be Alicia Silverstone, Buttercup would be Fairuza Balk and Blossom would be someone I can't think about right now. Help pls

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05. https://i.imgur.com/8v3vLoq.png
[Shadow and Bone]

[(Anonymous)]

really? Because he's Real cute to me! lol

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06. https://i.imgur.com/NjXPOz0.png
[Vivy - Fluorite Eye's Song]

[(Anonymous)]

I get that. I definitely don't want humanity to be wiped out, in fiction or in real life. But how hard is it to treat robots humanely, people?? Especially robots specifically designed to look like humans or animals like they so often are in fiction!

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07. https://i.imgur.com/LCze8ii.jpg
(The Queen's Gambit)

[(Anonymous)]

Anthology series that baby up imo

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[(Anonymous)]

Or at least, that you can remember having. Let's get some positivity up in here.

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