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[ SECRET POST #786 ]

⌈ Secret Post #786 ⌋

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 15 pages, 352 secrets from Secret Submission Post #113.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 2 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 1 2 3 4 5 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ], [ 1 - posted twice ], [ 1 - empty comment ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

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109-I think Toph would approve!

117-Of course he was an awesome father, as shown a little in the epilogue. Just like he was a great auror, ran the whole department and fixed the government before he was 30. Is there any doubt that if there is canon on such a thing it's positive?

140-Yeah, it's definitely not something everybody's going to pick up today and think is incredible. Especially since it's already influenced so much that's around today.

156-So just skip those discussions. They're usually pretty wordy, so you're putting in a lot of time on something you don't have to. Though it seems like your not!secret kind of proves their point.

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sistermagpie.livejournal.com - 2009-03-01 22:46 (UTC) - Expand

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matitablu.livejournal.com - 2009-03-01 23:00 (UTC) - Expand

Re: 140

continuum.livejournal.com - 2009-03-01 23:06 (UTC) - Expand

109 OP

(Anonymous) - 2009-03-02 01:18 (UTC) - Expand

I agree. I didn't like it much either and it wasn't because I didn't "get it".

I'm afraid that listening to the Aquabats and feeling sad is an impossibility.

The MCBC held my hand in concert once. :3

Also--Jaime? Did you post this?

I just re-watched that episode last night! I love that scene.

116 -- GUHHH me too!! I also ship Joel and um, myself. :)

135 -- *snort* I hated that shit in high school too! haha

140 -- No I mean, Watchmen isn't "OMGTHEGREATESTTHINGINTHEWORLD!!!" but it's undoubtedly well done.

141 -- I'm sorry you come from such a tiny town! In real life, there are TONS of people you could tell: perhaps you could move to a bigger place one day to find those people :(

155 -- If your friend is planning on writing for a living, you might want to give her a heads up...

164 -- >_> Was using the word "faggot" really necessary?

107. That would piss me off, because I hate that band.

147. I am so glad you posted this, because I have to look real hard at a picture before I'm positive which one it is.

164. The 'faggot' that you tacked on to that statement made me completely disregard anything you have to say. I hate that word.

127- Who drew these? I keep seeing them in icons, but I don't know who makes them.

147- LMFAO!!! For a while, I couldn't either.

redscharlach. Quite marvelous icons - mostly Doctor Who, Merlin and Heroes, IIRC.

113. You "relate" to him because the vast majority of Death Note fanfiction authors are teenage girls just like you and write him as a self-insert.

143. That is the worst reason for a diet that I've ever heard.

HOLY CRAP, how did I miss this the first time around?

It is completely impossible to feel like crap when you are listening to the Aquabats. You have great taste, OP.

101. This is really sweet.

120. Ha, I don't do that but I think it's really cute. It's something my friend would do though and I don't think it's that odd.

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redscharlach love!

134. *hug* I'm glad fandom can help you.

135. OH MY GOD ME TOO. I went it planning to mock it but was actually surprised by how much I honestly enjoy it. Also way out of the target audience. *blush*

145. Who doesn't? Wednesday rules!

163. I didn't know Adric was in P!ATD.

....NOW I AM EVEN LESS ABLE TO TAKE HIM SERIOUSLY, THANK YOU.

108 - Yes, because liking a movie is really the test for whether or not you should be allowed to survive. Wow.

110 - Get involved. Seriously. If you can support your interpretations well or you enjoy writing the series, there is no reason to hold yourself back.

117 - That... is really a disturbing opinion to me. People shouldn't have children if they didn't have good role models? I mean, seriously, I can understand why it makes things harder, but to say someone shouldn't be a father, or is probably incapable of it, because he didn't have one, or didn't have a good one, or something just... really troubles me.

136 - That is one of the best scenes in anything ever.

156 - Oh no, people are talking about things I don't like on the internet again! Seriously, is it really that hard to avoid conversions if you don't like them? I've never seemed to have a problem with it. You don't HAVE to read those posts/threads/comments/whatever. Some people actually like doing that, and a lot of people do that because they still enjoy the canon, even though they have problems with it. Discussing those problems is one of the ways people deal with them. You know, I'm not going to call you privileged. Though you are--everyone is to one degree or another, and it doesn't necessarily mean that you're a bad person. I'm going to call you selfish for being so hung up on your own fandom experience that you don't care about other people's.

164 - I have never, ever seen "author" defined by publishing, or by the content being totally original. If you create a written work, you are its author. Sorry if that's not exclusive enough for you. If you publish a real, physical written book, then I think the word you're looking for is "professional" author.

I DID TOO, ANON. :C
STILL DO.

108. That's a bit extreme, but I can see where you're coming from. There's not much to hate about the movie unless you're an original anime elitist - and yes, those people are morons.

155. That's pretty bitchy of you. If you're so much better, why don't you actually help her instead of just making up excuses and lying to her? I hate people who just ignore people who are bad writers when the bad writers LIKE writing and want to get better - there are barely any people that could start writing and just be amazing at it the first time around. Help her out, you were once like her too.

158. I am so glad I don't hang around the Star Wars fandom. Not only am I afraid of it being infested by little brats that don't know what they're talking about and love the Clone Wars movie, but also because shipping non-canon ships seriously in Star Wars just weirds me out for some reason. (And incest squicks me out a lot more, and since I know a lot of people ship those two, I'm glad I'm not in the fandom).

102 - I don't think they're supposed to be military uniforms, because they aren't military. They're a private organization. I have no idea the logic behind it, but I'm sort of crossing my fingers that it would have something to do with the uniforms they wear in s2 (which were already there, not something that was newly designed by Tieria or something like that)-- perhaps they're there just to make identifying the Meisters more easily?

130 - Eh. I don't like him, I like what he does.

137 - I think that's the reason we get a lot of sexual secrets. People don't want their activities tied to themselves.

140 - It took me a while to get into it, but the ending made it totally worth it, in the end. ♥ (Echoing the point that length =/= quality, though. Seriously, why do in 10 volumes what they can do in 1?)

150 - Wtf, I have never encountered that. Also, it makes less sense, because Firefly came after a lot of those, and wasn't perfection. *cringe*

140. You didn't like it, fine. It's not for everybody. But it is widely considered the greatest graphic novel ever. Referring to the popularity of it, rather than the quality, suggests that you think that if something is popular it can generally be taken as a sign that is good. And, well, you would be wrong. And if you don't know that, I can't take your secret seriously.

Ace! Whee!

Do you know what, though - I just really enjoyed looking at that secret. It's so cute. 10/Shakespeare made me laugh!

140. Watchmen isn't so much popular as it is important (not saying it's not popular too) - the context makes all the difference. This was the eighties, and after years and years of stuff like this (http://superdickery.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=76:people-starving-in-the-world-jimmy-cares-not&catid=29:confounding-comic-covers-index&Itemid=32) with comics being "for kids!" and not being respected as a medium, all of a sudden there was a bunch of comics (Watchmen isn't the only one, but one of the most notable). It was essentially, one of the first comics on level as literature, rather than pulp. It had layers. It had depth. It had symbolism. It referenced current events. I read Watchmen right around the time I was learning about the Cold War in history class, so it helped.

I don't really blame you for not liking it, but I think it's more important than being 'popular'.

But the trailer really was one of the best trailers I've seen, even if it was kind of misleading.

154. I would love some fics exploring Sheppard's darker side. Those were some of my favorite episodes. Like the one in the mist with his buddies - and he's all cautious around them because - yeah.

156. Most of my fandoms have problems. Doesn't mean I don't stop liking them - but I find that it's better to know that it has problems than accept it without thought.

Watchmen isn't so much popular as it is important.

Thank you. That's exactly the point, summed up right there. Like so many classics, it's not so much about being a fun way to kill time as it is about the impact it had on the artform.

Also, a fun way to kill time.

*joins the millions of commenters saying 'OMG Me Too!!!'*

And I only casually watch that show - I only saw that scene because I was waiting for something else to come on.

omg lol.
I totally agree. The Super Junior thread is full of idiots and cunts who think they know everything and look down on everyone else. :D

Edited 2009-03-01 22:34 (UTC)

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Doubtful that I'm saying anything that hasn't already been said, but it's my duty as a nerd to tl;dr about it.

Watchmen was a revolution for its time. Just as The Dark Knight Returns was (also in 1986) when it came it. It took a genre that was built for a certain demographic, generally kids, and completely flipped it upside down. It invoked a new light and provoked thoughts on the genre of superhero comics.

Superhero comics... Marvel, DC, Wildstorm, even the stuff on smaller press labels like Image, Dynamite and IDW all take cues from these books. The wouldn't be what they are without it.

There are plenty of people who never heard of it before the movie - hell, I run a comic shop, and one of my regulars came in asking about it. He's been shopping with us for years and never heard much of Watchmen before the hype. But it's not because it's boring, or because it's 12 issues (a good chunk of the most influential stories in comics were mini-series. the Dark Knight Returns and The Killing Joke are two notable ones) - it's because it's not completely mainstream. It's a self-contained story. You never see the Watchmen anywhere else in comics prior or after this story. But it's always been there. It's not on Time's 100 Greatest Novels list for nothing!

Bonus! The second episode of Tiny Toons Adventures has a Watchmen reference in it - so just because you never heard of it, OP, doesn't mean the influences haven't invaded other aspects of fandoms you may be in. Books you've read and shows you've watched... a lot of them have reference to it.

/tl;dr

Bonus! The second episode of Tiny Toons Adventures has a Watchmen reference in it

Ooo, what was it?

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samekh.livejournal.com - 2009-03-01 22:44 (UTC) - Expand

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matitablu.livejournal.com - 2009-03-01 23:05 (UTC) - Expand

113. Um, Matt's personality isn't really shown in the canon story...

LOL IRONY, Action from the Death Note OST just came on iTunes shuffle. XD

140 - don't feel bad, anon. I read it and was underwhelmed also. It doesn't suck but it wasn't breathtakingly epic and "BEST COMIC EVAR!"

156 - THIS.

137. Urgh, I know what you mean. At the same time, though, not being particularly sexual myself makes it a little less weird in some ways, since it just doesn't seem like that big of a deal.

143. I won't. There is so very, very much wrong with that. Jhonen would either smack you or laugh at you. Please get help.

152. While, thanks to nostalgia value, the first and second generations will always be my favorites, I have to admit that, objectively speaking, D&P absolutely pwned them in pretty much everything except for character design. And, yes, I will most likely play Platinum when it comes out here.

On another note, I'm more than a bit disturbed at how many secret-makers have been throwing around the word "faggot" recently.

143. THIS.

YES
MY OTP~
anon meme, ily

Okay, you two do not have compatible styles, but if it's pissing you off to the point where I'm seeing it on F!S, I think it's important that you break off your writer/beta relationship before your repressed anger curdles your enjoyment of the fandom. Do it for everyone's sake.

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