[ SECRET POST #5661 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5661 ⌋

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


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[SIX, a musical about the wives of Henry VIII]


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[Supernatural]


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[Agatha Christie]


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[Charlie and the Chocolate Factory]


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Comments

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Name the fandom. And repeats, etc.

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[(Anonymous)]

#5 is a repeat from Secret Post #5657.

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01. https://i.imgur.com/5ikRDnE.png

[kaijinscendre]

I remember liking this story as a kid but I don't remember anything except MENSTRUATION.

[(Anonymous)]

I hated that book too and I don't even remember much about why. I think it was something about the way things ended between her and her friends where I thought the book was trying to make her friends look bad when in my opinion Margaret was the bad friend. I don't remember what happened to make me decide that, though.

[(Anonymous)]

Honestly, I don't remember much about that book. It didn't stick with me.

But looking at that cover, man, I love that style of covers. They were so good and it was so fun to play 'spot the scene!' as I read the book. (Babysitters club and a couple other series also had this style of cover. I miss it.)

[(Anonymous)]

I never read this but I didn't like coming of age stories, either. I couldn't find any I identified with.

[(Anonymous)]

yep, same with art house.

Late to the party and maybe a little TMI, but...

[cakemage]

I remember hating this book as a kid, too. I got my first period at age 9 and had almost definitely developed endometriosis (it runs in the family) by age 12, which is when I read this book. I just could not relate at all to those girls' obsession with getting their periods, when mine were already so debilitating that I could hardly walk for 5 days out of each month. Also, Margaret and her friends were all kind of horrible to each other and everyone else.

OP

[(Anonymous)]

Thank you to the secret maker for making my secret! 🙂

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02. https://i.imgur.com/1zdm3n7.png
[SIX, a musical about the wives of Henry VIII]

[(Anonymous)]

For the curious… I had to google, but apparently Catherine of Aragon regarded herself as Henry VIII’s only lawful wife and didn’t acknowledge the annulment of their marriage or Anne Boleyn’s status as queen.

[philstar22]

This. She would never have considered herself an ex-wife. That's just sloppy. I mean, I don't exactly expect a musical like this to be accurate. But little things like this do bug me anyway.

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03. https://i.imgur.com/YlPTrwS.png
[Supernatural]

[(Anonymous)]

How is Metatron more hated than Lucifer?

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04. https://i.imgur.com/kvrtuhK.png
[Agatha Christie]

[philstar22]

Hey, the Suchet version adapted this. And the Suchet ones are the far superior adaption anyway.

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05. https://i.imgur.com/e4fNCtW.jpg

[(Anonymous)]

Repeat?

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06. https://i.imgur.com/L7Nj6Zr.png
[Charlie and the Chocolate Factory]

[(Anonymous)]

People just don't know how musicals work these days. Everything must be draped in the suffocating saran wrap of "realism" to the point where creative fictional fantasy just cannot even be understood.

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07. https://i.imgur.com/qOqaBVx.png

[(Anonymous)]

I don't think this a transphobic take, fwiw.

I don't think Elliot Page should have to play female roles if he doesn't want to, obviously. But clearly keeping the actor was prioritized more by the showrunners than keeping the story coherent, and I lose faith that they have a good grasp on any future events or seasons if they're showing their priorities are like this.

Plus, the simplest solution would've been to get a new female actor to play the character without changing the character instead of changing the fictional world to reflect changes in the real world. Real world changes in theory shouldn't impact anything in a story - even actors literally dying can be replaced with new ones and have a story or character go on. Wouldn't be the first or last franchise to swap actors, and "we specifically wanted a female-presenting actor for this role, and Elliot Page is a male actor that is not female-presenting" would have both respected Page's gender identity and the established character.

Not that trans characters are a bad thing but not when it's like this. I'd feel the same about a character who has shown zero signs of wanting to be a mother or having a partner for example, suddenly having a baby because the actress is pregnant.

Classic case of "handled poorly with the best of intentions"

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08. https://i.imgur.com/DcyGh5o.jpg

[(Anonymous)]

Sometimes I pick up an odd habit from a favourite character. Like a tic! But gonna be honest, my first thought on this was Avatar and idk how I feel about that.

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Because of secret 7.....

[tabaqui]

I'm going to work shortly so hopping in here while I can.
I did not know Elliot got top surgery, and I am pretty impressed that he did this shirt-open photo in this interview. A lot of people with surgical scars (and scars for such an intensely personal and 'controversial' reason) would have declined. I think it shows a lot of courage.

https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/tv/a40011366/elliot-page-umbrella-academy-euphoria/

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