[ SECRET POST #5398 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5398 ⌋

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


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 38 secrets from Secret Submission Post #773.
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.

(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/ohF4QVv.png

[(Anonymous)]

Huh. This is intereseting. I definitely feel like the general public moves quickly from one thing to another like OP says, but I haven't noticed the same thing in fandom itself.

[(Anonymous)]

Wow, the reply to my secret-maker post got made into the secret?

[(Anonymous)]

Isn't that just the nature of pop culture, though?

[(Anonymous)]

With series like Squid Game, I wish they'd drop weekly. Mare of Easttown actually had a fandom on reddit and it was super fun to engage with episode discussions, because a whodunnit really works better when people have a chance to chat about who dun it!

https://www.reddit.com/r/MareofEasttown/ is the subreddit.

I've binged several shows and enjoyed them, but some really should drop weekly to build the buzz, IMO.

[(Anonymous)]

Yes to this. I really hate the binge model when the whole series drops at once. Weekly episodes have more time to digest each one, more time for other people to catch up, more time for fan theories and speculation and anticipation.

When I really fall for a fandom, I like to be there for a long time. There are fandoms I've been writing for off and on for literally 20 years. I can't stand this faddish "ew, why are you writing for a show that was two years ago, that's SO OLD" mentality.

[(Anonymous)]

I hate to be a Debbie Downer but I would really have no confidence in them not to fuck it up.

[(Anonymous)]

I know very little about Young Avengers, but this seems like it could be interesting. I wonder if they’re waiting to see how Hawkeye is received.

[(Anonymous)]

A few years ago I would have been worried about them making Young Avengers and fucking it up, but my general care level about the MCU has dropped enough that I can happily go back to cherry-picking what I like and ignoring the bad stuff. So Young Avengers, bring it on!

[(Anonymous)]

There’s way more misfires than usual in this thread.

And at least two of them don’t seem to realize they misfired either...

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[(Anonymous)]

Yeah it's really frustrating. It feels like so many shows just drop into the void and can't sustain themselves. And I don't understand how it's good for Netflix, either.

[(Anonymous)]

In general, I agree. My best friends watch so many tv shows, they're always reccing shows to me and each other and while I'm sure the shows are good and I'm happy for my friends, I feel so burned out and I don't even watch a lot of shows. And yeah most shows have this intense couple of weeks where everyone is talking about nothing but the new cool show but then everyone moves onto the next show. I can't keep up and I choose not to, but I do miss the days of like, "Lost" or even the 3-4 years where "The Office" had a resurgence in popularity. Shows I enjoy, like "Succession" or "The Umbrella Academy", don't really have active fandoms unless you find a niche group of friends to fandom over with.

TL;DR "fandom isn't what it used to be, this old millennial is ranting about the good ol' days"

[sparklywalls]

I'm perhaps showing my age a bit but 90% of the time I prefer watching stuff like it was before streaming services e.g. waiting a week for the next new episode or at least not watching everything in a day. It's why I was kinda amused by the amount of grousing over Disney+ Marvel shows, because yes I do know it's a way to force you to subscribe for longer, but at the same time Disney didn't invent that, that's literally how you had to watch TV once upon a time? And I'm in the UK so we were regularly getting things ages after the USA if it was one of their shows.

Admittedly spoiler culture wasn't as bad before social media really took off so even weekly episodes now don't protect you from people who seemingly have no job, or kids, or school to get up for so watch new content/entire seasons overnight and then post untagged word vomits that basically spoil everything. I'm not someone who gets really angry about spoilers tbh, but I still find it a little annoying that unless you're able to be awake at 00:05 and stay up all night, even if you put lots of things in place to block or avoid it, the likelihood of encountering some jerk escaping your safety measures and posting some barely concealed happenings increases the longer you wait.

Anyway, this is just my long-winded way of saying I kinda get what you mean. Because I haven't got around to watching Squid Game yet and it already feels like everyone is over it because they've binged it in a day and gone onto the next thing. I'm watching something else (Dark) and wanted to finish that first.

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[(Anonymous)]

Thanks for turning my comment into a secret, OP!

I only found out this version of Cyrano had been a stage production prior to the film after commenting here.

Per reviews, Dinklage did an awesome job, but his voice was only so-so. Since I've heard his big number is a rap-battle or patter song I guess it doesn't matter so much.

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[(Anonymous)]

It's the opposite for me! Put them side by side and I'm like "yeah, same nose shape, same eye shape," etc. But separately, I can always tell who's who

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[(Anonymous)]

I don't think things need to be groundbreaking to be good social commentaries or interesting to watch.

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I can't quite imagine why you would be having such a hard time admitting what your fandoms are. Do you think they're too childish? Too strange? Too pornographic?

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NS, NF, etc.

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General comments:

(If the thread contains spoilery/triggery content please warn/post as 2nd comment so it collapses!
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Your favourite crossover fics or fic ideas

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I love the idea of crossover fics. When they're done well they're excellent, but so often they feel like someone just took two (or more) fandoms and forced them together, whether they fit or not.

So share with me your favourite crossovers that you think really do work. They can be actual fics you want to rec, scenarios you enjoy, or just ideas that have been running around in your head.

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Games thread!