[ SECRET POST #774 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #774 ⌋

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

101.
[Dr. Kureha from One Piece]


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102.


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103.
[Lulu, FFX; Sister Psyche, City of Heroes]


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104.


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105.
[Doctor Who/Gossip Girl]


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106.
[CSI]


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107.
[Ouran High School Host Club]


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110.


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111.


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112.


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113.


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114.


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115.
[No Rest For the Wicked]


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118.


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124.
[The Office]


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125.
[Avatar]


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126.


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127.
[Being Human]


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128.


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129.
[Diamond Head]


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130.
[Prince of Persia]


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131.
[X/1999]


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132.


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133.
[Being Human]


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134.
[Blackpool, previously linked wrong]


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135.
[Doctor Who / Spirited Away]


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137.
[Scrubs]


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138.


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139.
[Linkin Park, Leave Out All the Rest, Avatar, Zutara, Twilight]


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140.


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141.


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142.


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143.
[The L Word]


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144.


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145.
[Scarlet Pimpernel]


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146.


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147.
[Joe Oppedisano, photographer]


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148.
[Lucy Lawless]


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149.
[Girl Genius]


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150.
[The Remus Lupins, Alex Carpenter]


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153.
[Can't Hardly Wait]


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154.
[Red vs. Blue]


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159.
[Johnny the Homicidal Maniac]


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161.
[Sarah Jane Adventures, Mr. Smith]


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163.
[Criminal Minds]


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166.
[Barney Stinson (Neil Patrick Harris); How I Met Your Mother]


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170.
[Charmed]


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 09 pages, 213 secrets from Secret Submission Post #111.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 2 - not!secrets ], [ 1 - not!fandom ], [ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 - too big ], [ 1 2 3 - repeat ], [ 1 - unreadable ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

111, 112, 126, 137, 148, 160, 166

[xenafox.livejournal.com]

111. Yea that is silly. Then again, I think almost any "I SHIP IT" secret is dumb because really, who cares xP It doesn't seem like some deep dark secret. (I'm probably being a bitch... x.x; )

112. LOL OMG. While I find political fandom stuff scary and mind numbingly stupid..even I want that movie xD

126. dfikhfjk Ya just had to use Heathus *Immediately dubs anyone who "Jesuses up" Heath an idiot, sorry* The man was a great actor and died. He's not a religious figure @_@ *Also so disagrees with the Iron Man bit* But then again I find Iron Man boring and stupid xp

137. Lol. DON'T FEEL GUILTY. Cox can be...polygamous I'm sure :D

148. Lucy Lawless is like the hottest woman ever, I swear. Is that from the LA Con?

160. Um..hmm. That's an interesting thing to consider, actually.(Not writing it I mean, but wondering about the actual person behind the insert).

166. I know right!? That would be so fun!

Re: 148 OP

[androbard1364.livejournal.com]

She IS the hottest woman ever. And yeah, that is from the 'Sappho' musical. :D

125

[(Anonymous)]

oh please you're talking slashers here

they're pretty fucking dumb

everything is ~*~*~*SUBTEXT*~*~*~

which imo is a bunch of bs and an excuse they use to validate their nonsense pairings

Re: 125

[mimes.livejournal.com]

You know, I don't care what people ship, it's just annoying to see people try and PROVE ships that'll never happen.

THE GAY IS ALL IN YOUR HEAD, AND THAT'S OKAY. IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE CANON FOR YOU TO LIKE THE IDEA.

123

[fireholly.livejournal.com]

168

[boombangbing.livejournal.com]

You could request some. (http://1297.livejournal.com/8081.html) Also, I had no idea before, but I find it incredibly adorable. ♥

125

[banerry.livejournal.com]

... Huh. I've rarely seen any het!bashing among Tyzula fans (in a serious way, I mean). In general, though, I agree with you- shipbashing kind of annoys me, whether I agree with the basher's preferences or not. I tend to just ignore it if it crops up on my flist. :|

160, Writing Advice

[shadsie.livejournal.com]

160. You sound like you are young and just out to live your fantasies (like many of us have done on many a playground many years ago). However, in online fandom, you get the clash of the people who "just want to play" and those who see fanfiction writing as a semi-serious artistic hobby... I'm an old fart in the latter group. But, unlike many in my bracket, I do not judge the worth of a person by their writing (their writing ability, yes, but not their entire worth). We all start out somewhere.

That said, I create OCs for my fanfiction all the time. A recent story of mine for le fandom Trigun was told from the POV of a character I made up. There is a lot of prejudice against OCs out there (after all, most people who read fanfic want to read about the canon characters they already love/hate/know). I've been told that my OCs are realistic and interesting and people who "normally don't like to read about OCs" have made an exception for mine.

The secret, in fanfiction particularly, is to make your character serve the plot rather than the plot serve the character. If the character is to interact with canon characters, they must never overshadow them. Anything in depth about them has to show them in the light of being "a real person" - they'll make mistakes and not all the misfortune brought upon them is somebody else's fault. They don't have to be completely inept at everything, but they shouldn't be good at absolutely everything, either. Everyone has strengths and weaknesses. I, for instance, love doing creative things but I suck a altheticism in a big way.

I also like writing characters with a variety of viewpoints. While I think every character you create reflects aspects of yourself, they shouldn't reflect every aspect. Try creating characters who aren't like you in some way - perhaps they have a belief that is different from yours - try writing that in a way that *doesn't paint them as necessiarly wrong.*

If you are creating OCs that are essentially versions of yourself, then you probably *aren't* justified in your annoyance because, in all honesty, it is an extremely RARE person who can see themselves objectively. You might be able to see some behaviors and attitude of yours in hindsight and judge yourself objectively later, but the fact remains that we just don't see ourselves as other people see us - and, as said by others on this thread, you may be embellishing your characters - perhaps without meaning to, but it's really *hard* not to write out a personal fantasy and not do that.

I hope that I was not uncessarily harsh. I really do want to help how I can, to give advice from my own experience. I've been a fanfiction writer for about 10 years now, give or take. I've waded through a lot of suck.

Re: 160, Writing Advice

[tahneemonkee.livejournal.com]

Not the OP, but this reply was really awesome. I write OC fic too so your advice was really interesting :D thank you for posting this!

too big 1

[(Anonymous)]

You say that as if he signed up for that movie with no idea there would be that much merchandising. I'm no fan of his, but he was smarter than that.

147

[anogete.livejournal.com]

147 - I might hump my computer screen after seeing that. ::runs off to find other pictures by this photographer::

Re: 147 OP

[(Anonymous)]

He pretty much specializes in dirty, sweaty, uber-masculine men in erotic and homo-erotic contexts. Have fun! :D

135 155 156 161

[mimes.livejournal.com]

135 - AHAHAH YES

155 - Thank you, it is so comforting to hear that someone else can view someone as being attractive without also being sexually attracted to them. Those are some people I would love to draw, but not sleep with. You are not obliged to want to hit anyone, you're attracted to who you're attracted to and that's that, regardless of if they've got a strong jawline or if instead they've got major bags under their eyes.

156 - Any subtext in any given show is unintentional and if you think they were really doing it, you're probably delusional. Slash is usually AU by it's very nature. In the show, their friendship was beautiful but purely platonic but hey, in no way does that doesn't mean you can't like the idea of them together romatically either! (I ship s/mc instead of k/s, but either ship, hell, any ship, you can like both their actual relationship in the show and the hypothetical relationship you see in fics, even if you know that only one is real)

161 - I think that's a fantastic idea and I hope you go through with it :D

Re: 135 155 156 161

[(Anonymous)]

Any subtext in any given show is unintentional
Much of it, yes, but there are certainly works that play up the subtext, seriously or not--hell, the actors and writers involved in Picard/Q (in the Star Trek right after that) confirmed that they considered Q in love with and/or attracted to Picard.

145

[(Anonymous)]

Where are all the Leslie Howard "I'D HIT THAT" secrets? Was I born seventy years too late?

Re: 145

[maisedoat.livejournal.com]

You and me both

[jaclynhyde.livejournal.com]

103. Lulu = one of the best things of FFX (the other being Auron).
112. Oh god want it too.
123. OH SHIT, IT IS?
127. I've just realized the werewolf reminds me of the Angry Video Game Nerd.
135. a;dkfjas;lkjdf;
138. Why in the world don't you just stop?
141. Oh god, it is Tonks.
145. Eeeeee Scarlet Pimpernel!
155. There's no "should" about it--if you don't feel attracted to anyone, it's perfectly okay!
156. Nothing wrong with shipping people differently in canon (or your headcanon) than you do in fic.
160. No, but the idealized person you portray yourself as presumably is unoriginal; Mary Sues in fic tend to pass over all the interesting flaws that make people human in favor of being perfect, just like every other Mary Sue.
161. I LOVE MR. SMITH SO MUCH AND YOU SHOULD TOTALLY NAME YOUR LAPTOP AFTER HIM. (My laptop is named Orac, which is even more nerdy.)
162. Oh my god, they're the same person.
N!S1. ...oh lord, I have to see this.
Unreadable. Dammit, wanna see!

[backinblackk.livejournal.com]

161. I programmed his start-up music to play when I open my laptop, hah :)

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[lasultrix.livejournal.com]

I clung for so, so long to the theory that her body had been taken over before her Ascension. Just so that the character-destruction wouldn't have happened to HER.

But after enough rewatchings of early S4 I realised it couldn't be true.

:(

The moment in Dead End where she and Angel demonstrate their adorable platonic BFF is one of my favourite BtVS-verse moments ever. And a great teeny piece of acting. She pulled off the voice, and he pulled off the smile, so perfectly.

159

[(Anonymous)]

I'm pretty positive it's Jhonen writing it.

Also, I agree with you. Way too people in that fandom realize how absurd it all is.

159 OP

[(Anonymous)]

=) thanks, I'm pretty sure it's him too.

[morgana006.livejournal.com]

155. What... what is Jason Momoa wearing? *not used to seeing him outside of his Ronon costume*

Too Big 4: BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

142.

[glamourcorpse.livejournal.com]

142. I couldn't a agree more. It was actually painful to watch. They've been showing that arc on TNT lately. IT BURNS!

[highasakyt.livejournal.com]

164 - that is pretty much my goal in life right now -- to work for collegehumor after graduating. sad, but true.

146 (aka Terra E.../To Terra...)

[puritybrown.livejournal.com]

The manga is fantastic. I've never seen the new anime... I'm a bit leery because the character designs don't really look like Keiko Takemiya's art (though I won't let that stop me watching it when I get the chance). Not really surprising, since she drew the manga in the 1970s and an anime that used that style now would look hella dated, but still, Takemiya's art is so utterly gorgeous that it's a large part of the attraction for me. I'd be really interested to see the earlier anime, if I could get hold of it; to judge from the pictures I've seen, it stuck more closely to Takemiya's style.

Re: 146 (aka Terra E.../To Terra...)

[allira-dream.livejournal.com]

I've not seen the original anime, but I've seen the manga and the new anime is also quite gorgeous, if I might add my two cents.

[hyper-piggie.livejournal.com]

135. - I always thought Yubaba reminded me of Twinrova from Legend of Zelda.

106, 116, 125, 141, too big 8

[nakotaco.livejournal.com]

106. I miss him too. It's just not the same )8

116. Ooh me! I can name at least one other person for you, and she probably knows more... XD

125. I hate it when shippers take "I don't agree, there's no canon proof" to mean "OMG I HAET TEH GAYS!!!1!" because, guess what, it doesn't.

141. ... That's horrible D:

too big 8: OH MY SHIT EUREKA. I LOVE EUREKA SO MUCH OMG.

125!OP

[(Anonymous)]

THANK YOU.

But of course, its okay to bash het ships, but its NEVER okay to bash slash ones. Its just the way of fandom, I think.

144

[luna-glass-wall.livejournal.com]

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES. Finally, someone else who finds that pairing as get-off-on-it-able as I do >.> Never gone that far, though.

OP

[(Anonymous)]

You probably know who I am too. rofl You keep hush, hush if you do though. XD

133. 153. 158.

[whatthebec.livejournal.com]

133. All these "Being Human" secrets are breaking me down. That guy is SO cute that I'm gonna need to find some episodes online to watch.

153. BEST COUPLE EVER!

158. Ditto. Cillian is incredi-sexy.

113, 118, 141

[geministar01.livejournal.com]

113. I like the original too, but I LOVED Ninja Storm. It dragged me back in at the point when I was waaaaaaay too old for Power Rangers. I loved the sense of humor, the characters, the story - it's definitely a favorite.

118. Wow. I wish she narrated my life. All I ever get is somebody who sounds like me and the occasional guest-narroator in the form of Yahtzee Croshaw.

141. ...I never thought about it before, but hell yeah! With the exception of the E-Surance guy being just a tad too macho-looking, I totally see it.

126 156

[mimes.livejournal.com]

126 - As a DC fan, I feel I'm doing something wrong considering how much I actually dislike Batman =S

and 156, I didn't mention it before, but damn, I wish that the English language had a word even close to t'hy'la

[vaeltaa.livejournal.com]

168. Haha agreed. There needs to be RPF about them, so bad.

[shadowhuntress.livejournal.com]

Aww, they look so cute in that icon!