[ SECRET POST #5277 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5277 ⌋

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


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[Studio Ghibli]


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[Lucifer]


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Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 07 secrets from Secret Submission Post #755.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Name the fandom. And repeats, etc.

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01. https://i.imgur.com/lkFdqp4.jpg

[meadowphoenix]

I still would rather less Phillipa Gregory, but I too enjoy historians correcting the record.

[(Anonymous)]

I am a hardcore historian when it comes to historic reenactments/documentaries but not so much for fictional stories. AUs are fun. I have been lapping up the "Anne Boleyn was not black!1!!!1" drama...LOL

[(Anonymous)]

Any recs for blogs? This sounds like fun drama to read.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't super mind it when an author goes "I changed this and that for my story" or "I'm on this side of the debate about xzy" but I hate it when authors like Gregory act like they're historically accurate.

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02. https://i.imgur.com/AnCrJP0.jpg

[feotakahari]

One of several reasons I ditched My Hero Academia was that it looked like it was going this route. Midoriya was trying to be a good hero in all the ways Endeavor wasn’t, but only the murderous antagonists were trying to dismantle the social system that made Endeavor possible.

[(Anonymous)]

What books are examples of this?

[(Anonymous)]

I mean, not to get all political, but this is very political, and I don't think it's a coincidence that, you know, Goodkind is right wing, Weber is right-ish. The politics of Goblin Emperor, insofar as I understand them at second hand, are center liberal. It's not really surprising that people with those politics would write this kind of plot because the idea that either moral good will, or personal charismatic magnetism, is able to fix broken systems is pretty common in those ideologies.

Although, that said, Goodkind is a bad enough writer that I feel like it's kind of useless to treat him as indicative of anything. It feels like he is an outlier no matter what context you're talking about.

[(Anonymous)]

Some of your examples I don't know, but others I know are pretty old, and I actually can't think of many new things where a bad system is acknowledged, if only indirectly, as the problem. It always ends with a system overhaul. It's like, a trope?

And then I think of the people who thought The Hunger Games should have ended with the first book, where the good guy wins the Game but the Games system is still in place. So there's definitely an audience that wants the kind of story you're put off by.

[meadowphoenix]

I don't mind books which are Obviously Political but I do mind the lack of nuance? Usually it means that the author cares less for depth of character and more for aggressively orienting their audience to their POV, and since I'm a character ho, this annoys me! I think we probably dislike the same things.

That said, TV does this A LOT, and it spans all genres. in the US, CBS tends to the be the public channel with the least nuance in its politics. Blue Bloods is the worst for this.

[(Anonymous)]

There’s one fantasy/sci-fi mashup comic I remember reading, Finder, where most characters are in one sort of clan or another. One story arc follows a character who is born into a wealthy, manipulative, competitive clan where they strongly prize conformity and hold literal beauty pageants to determine if that family can stay in that clan (and get major social and financial benefits).

I have some mixed feelings about the overall story, but a couple atypical things stuck with me. One was that the main character was not a 100% Good Person, and others (or just her to herself) call out her weaknesses or poor attempts at manipulation. The other was that even though the main character begins to question whether things really work in her clan or in all the clan systems, at the end she remains in it - she is just closer to defining herself individually and her relationships with others with a new sense of conviction.

[(Anonymous)]

It's been so long since I read Melanie Rawn's Dragon Prince series that I don't recall how it would fit this description.

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03. https://i.imgur.com/QyhHiXZ.png
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[(Anonymous)]

Disagree with the secret but the picture made me laugh.

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04. https://i.imgur.com/lEKhOi5.png
[Lucifer]

[(Anonymous)]

Jeez. You're not wrong. How did I miss this?

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05. https://i.imgur.com/Y5vrCIT.png

[(Anonymous)]

I miss it too. I was a fan, in that I saw all the eps and read fic and whatnot. Oddly enough, once the show was over I pretty much moved on immediately, but years later I do find myself missing it sometimes.

I remember the fandom being rather wholesome and drama-free? But that could be nostalgia.

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06. https://i.imgur.com/s4A2MXr.jpg

[(Anonymous)]

Going to write author's notes like that all the time now, just because it annoys you so much specifically.

It's not even so much that you feel that way, it's the way you said it. *shrug*

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07. https://i.imgur.com/VibTr8J.jpeg

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[(Anonymous)]

While part of the charm in a lot of stories is seeing dysfunctional characters, I personally hate the trope of poor communication skills because, most of the times, it makes the story feel forced as hell. When it is some basic, minuscule fact, that I hate, especially since it is something that would inevitable be revealed and come into conversation anyway.

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