[ SECRET POST #5430 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5430 ⌋

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


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02.
[Graham Norton]


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03.
[pic is from Robot Chicken]


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04.
[Great British Bake Off]


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05.
[Supernatural]


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06.
[Zachary Levi from "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel"]


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07.
[Veep]











Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 14 secrets from Secret Submission Post #777.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

SAME. It's so irritating. You want me to believe that someone's parents chose a random name from another language that connects specifically to a mythology or meaning, and then they grew up to become the embodiment of the thing they were named after? Nah fam. That's a bad author choice all the way. JKR is egregious about this on multiple levels. I mean, shit, my favorite media is One Piece and even I roll my eyes sometimes at Oda's name puns. I give him a pass because he's got over 600 named characters, they can't all be as clever as Cavendish.

Like, if you did grow up to be the embodiment of your name, like your parents sincerely loved Ariadne as a name and you just so happened to become an unraveller of mazes, someone around you should definitely go "wait..." and it could be funny. But the sheer number of creators who reach for this device means it would only be funny one or twice and then it becomes unfunny...and painfully obvious.

[(Anonymous)]

It's not a bad author choice. It's a common fiction convention that wouldn't make sense in real life but doesn't need to because these are in the end characters who can have superficial traits like names and physical features that just happen to correspond with something they're associated with. It's like. An aesthetic thing. Sometimes it can be overkill eg Remus Lupin and that's a ymmv opinion, but "how can you expect me to believe this would happen" is so... you're begging to be asked have you ever heard of "fun"?

[(Anonymous)]

mte. like any writing choice it can be bad but it's not bad by default

[(Anonymous)]

This.