[ SECRET POST #5310 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5310 ⌋

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Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 20 secrets from Secret Submission Post #760.
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.

(If you think something in this thread is a troll, please ignore it! Conversation is fine, but OT wank makes stuff harder to keep track of in this thread. Thanks.)

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01. https://i.imgur.com/h5q3WBc.jpg

[(Anonymous)]

On the one hand, I hope writing/reading that type of fic makes people happy. On the other hand... yeah, it's a bit cringe and I'd never read any.

[(Anonymous)]

I haven't read much GO fic so I don't have any opinions on that, but to me Outsider Fic needs to be a real Outsider. A neighbor, a waitress, an extremely knowledgeable cabbage merchant, someone who doesn't grasp the whole of the weird that's going on but notices a tiny bit during their day. That's what works for me. A new person who gets brought into the story and doted on by the characters is completely different.

[meadowphoenix]

oh man, I sorta get this because I'm so picky about how outside outsider fic should be for me to enjoy and no cringe. I'm much more "yes adopt the OC" when it's found family, but I at all times want it to fit within the universe set by canon, and wish fulfillment almost never does this well.

[(Anonymous)]

Some recs for good GO Outsider POV fics because I have no self control:

- Anthony J. Crowley, Retired Demon and Airbnb Superhost by TheOldAquarian (https://archiveofourown.org/works/21723022) - Exactly what it sounds like, just Airbnb reviews when Crowley decides to Airbnb his flat post-canon

- 5 Conversations Overheard in an English Village by chellefic (https://archiveofourown.org/works/20099053) - A village vicar is very weirded out by A&C

- Adventures In Attempting To Purchase A Book From That Weird Old Soho Bookshop, A. Z. Fell & Co. by Quandtuniverse (https://archiveofourown.org/works/19315309) - An antique book forum is very aggressively trying to buy books from Aziraphale. Also has a bunch of related works you can read if you like.

- Demonology and the Tri-Phasic Model of Trauma: An Integrative Approach by Nnm (https://archiveofourown.org/works/20177950) - Ok, this one's a long fic, almost 100k, and definitely not to everyone's taste but I love it. Essentially, Crowley gets a therapist. It's super well-researched, but also pretty heavy due to all the trauma recovery going on.

[(Anonymous)]

This is reminding me of that SGA smut fic told from the perspective of a table.

[(Anonymous)]

TBH, I find basically every form of self-insert in fanfic to be entirely repulsive to my personal tastes. So yeah, I very much feel this.

But also, like you, I keep my hatred of anything self-insert-y to myself (and F!S), because people who love self-insert stuff in fanfic aren't doing anything wrong.

[(Anonymous)]

I've seen a few of these, and (speaking as a queer person) ia that they're terrible. I don't ever say anything to the writers or whatever, because I'm not that much of a jerk, but these fics would probably be marginally less terrible if the OCs had ANY smidge of personality beyond "poor suffering persecuted life support system for An Gender or An Sexuality (I'd say the ratio of An Gender to An Sexuality is about 3/2 give or take from what I've seen.) But they never have any personality beyond that, or if they start out with some it immediately flies out the window as soon as The Gender is revealed.

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02. https://i.imgur.com/5qVAcQi.jpg

[feotakahari]

I just saw a Tumblr post complaining that Game of Thrones is unwatchable in dark scenes because you can’t see what’s going on. It compared Lord of the Rings, where the light “comes from the same place as the music” and you can always see what’s happening.

[(Anonymous)]

+1. I could only tell it was dark from the way the actors acted like it was dark because everything has basically the same lighting.

[(Anonymous)]

Given the choice between that and the trend of filming scenes with such poor lighting that everything looks like layers of dark blobs, I’ll take the unrealistic scenes that I can see.

[(Anonymous)]

The design and text placement of this secret is cracking me up, it's perfect.

[(Anonymous)]

Well, you're totally wrong. For one thing, it's not actually that uncommon for things that happen at night to be fairly well-lit, for instance if there's a full moon. For another thing, film noir lighting is often at its best when it uses chiaroscuro effects where you have extremely dark and extremely dark lighting in the same frame, and it's certainly capable of being truly dark when it wants to be truly dark. And really, ultimately, why is realism the be-all end-all in the first place? The fact that film noir is strongly stylized is one of the best things about it.

But all that said, taste is taste.

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03. https://i.imgur.com/QzqGspL.png

[(Anonymous)]

+1. I could only tell it was dark from the way teh actors acted like it was dark because everything has basically the same lighting.

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[(Anonymous)]

It can and should be acknowledged that racism is not the only factor in play while that still being *a* factor. I think things may just seem quieter because the topic isn't as new anymore. It's unlikely that people have realized they were wrong and racism is irrelevant, so you can stop being smug.

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05. https://i.imgur.com/uyGEE4d.png

[(Anonymous)]

I had no idea there was going to be an adaptation. I'm very curious to see how it turns out. It's going to be interesting to see how the unreliable narrator convention translates to the screen.

As for the ages, I doubt they'll assign anyone a specific age, but everyone will probably look mid-twenties. Fandom will find ways to argue about it anyway. :-)

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06. https://i.imgur.com/41IbvY3.png

[(Anonymous)]

Probably because no one dresses like Ancient Egyptians anymore.

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