[ SECRET POST #5406 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5406 ⌋

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


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[Harry Potter]


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03.
[Beast Breaker]


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04.
[The Longest Journey]


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[Battleboarding fandom]


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06.
[Ashes of Gods]


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07.
[Word of Honor]







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Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 39 secrets from Secret Submission Post #774.
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/fcfzzcl.png

[feotakahari]

My experience of “gold standard” fics is that they’re about the guy the author identifies with beating up all the bad guys and getting all the girls to fall in love with him. Maybe I’ve been in the wrong fandoms.

[meadowphoenix]

i don't think i've ever had a whole fandom with a top fic. most popular recs I've seen are specific to some types of sub-fandom stuff (dynamics, ships, characters, accurate tone etc) and really about the authors rather than the fic.

[(Anonymous)]

Most of the fandoms I'm in don't really have gold standard fics when it comes to 'good' quality works but they all have that one special gloriously weird fic that everyone is baffled over and eagerly recommends to each other; "You gotta see this to believe it." The so called train wreck fics. Then again, arguably the weird factor is what makes these beautiful works of art so good.

[tabaqui]

That's too bad, OP. The few 'you must read this' fics in my fandoms are excellent fics, to me (and I avoid sad-ending fics like the plague).

[(Anonymous)]

I'm usually in the same boat-- in three or four fandoms, there's a Fic that gets talked about more than any other that leaves me cold at best (a couple that I actively hate, a couple that just aren't my thing but seem to be everyone else's).

Then again, I got in at the right moment with one smaller fandom where now *I'm* responsible for The Fic, so I know sometimes those fics are considered the gold standard not necessarily because they're the best in the world, but because someone wrote it at the right time.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm curious about what your fandoms are like, OP. In my fandoms, the top-recced fic is almost always tropey m/m romance of 20,000+ words, with a better than average chance of being an AU. Examples:

Chosen Man by Sineala (The Eagle)
https://archiveofourown.org/works/681763

The Student Prince by FayJay (Merlin)
https://archiveofourown.org/works/91885

Transcendental by Astolat (Stargate Atlantis)
https://archiveofourown.org/works/330136
(May not be the top-recced fic now, but it was when I was in the fandom.)

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02. https://i.imgur.com/t8UkrVW.png
[Harry Potter]

[meadowphoenix]

I would agree with you if his one point of usefulness pre-memory loss wasn't incredibly terrifying.

[iff_and_xor]

I've always found his confident incompetence to be quite scary. As a kid, I remember being so uncomfortable with the scene where he tries to fix Harry's arm, despite Harry asking him not to.

[(Anonymous)]

Any and all charm Lockhart possesses is due to Brannaugh's acting. The book Lockhart read as someone trying way too desperately to be charming and failing to read the room.

[(Anonymous)]

Personally I will be forever annoyed that they cast Brannaugh for the role. He was too old and not nearly handsome enough, IMO. My headcanon for the character will always be Simon Baker circa about 2007. Barker has that buttery-smooth charisma that can balance on a knife's edge between extremely winning and smarmy.

[(Anonymous)]

i also have a lot of fondness for lockhart, you're not alone

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03. https://i.imgur.com/hrETwOd.png
[Beast Breaker]

[(Anonymous)]

While I don't play this game, this is very sweet (not leaving him behind). And it's... refreshing? To not have sexy characters period, imo. Not everything needs to incite heat in the loins.

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04. https://i.imgur.com/boPvBgM.png
[The Longest Journey]

[(Anonymous)]

A Longest Journey Secret! Man, what a great game.

There were so many hanging threads that I totally forgot this guy got murdered. Maybe Brian Westhouse? The timeline for that is probably way off, though.

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05. https://i.imgur.com/0G5eB2G.png
[Battleboarding fandom]

[feotakahari]

Forum threads about how your favorite character would beat everyone else in a fight are based on the same impulse as writing alternate history fic based on your Crusader Kings playthrough where you conquered everyone else.

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06. https://i.imgur.com/yoyRByw.png
[Ashes of Gods]

[(Anonymous)]

Ash of Gods plays so awkwardly on PS4 that I had to drop it. Lowkey wonder if my game data was corrupted because of how goofy the controls were.

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07. https://i.imgur.com/YXeE88N.png
[Word of Honor]

[(Anonymous)]

That promo photo is super pretty and tempting me to watch

Also, I like battle fans

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Boy...was doing my pickup order for the week

[(Anonymous)]

And nothing is in stock!

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