[ SECRET POST #845 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #845 ⌋

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

101.


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102.
[Dollhouse]


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103.
[Parasyte/Kiseiju]


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106.
[Code Geass, Gankutsuou, Cowboy Bebop, Yoko Kanno]


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107.
[Storm Hawks/Stargate Atlantis Repton/Wraith]


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109.
[Turisas]


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113.
(Okage: Shadow King)


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114.
[High School Musical]


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115. [SPOILERS for Warriors: Sunset]



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117.


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118. [repeat 2]


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119.
[Samantha Ronsson and Lindsay Lohan]


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120.
[The Princess and the Goblin]


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122.
[Radio One]


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123.
[GRƩƩK]


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124.
(Police Academy)


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131. (Supernatural - mild SPOILER for 4.18)



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133.
[Prince of Egypt]


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134.
[max guevara, sam winchester, dark angel, supernatural]


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136.
[Alien]


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137.
[Kekkaishi]


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138. [SPOILERS for Harry Potter 6 & 7]



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140.
[House]


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145.
[Mothman/Dollar Bill]


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150.
[Ranma 1/2]


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152.
[resized]


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155.
[Left4Dead]


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[resized]


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165.
[Marvel: Secret Invasion]


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166.
[The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya]


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167.
[American Idol]


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168.
[Detective Conan/Case Closed]


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170.
[Lord of the Rings]


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171.
[Nostalgia Critic/Nostalgia Chick]


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172.
[Cody Sheldon]


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173.
[Penny and Aggie]


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177.
[Super Junior (fanfic)]


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178.
[Metalocalypse]


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180.
[Gorillaz]


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182.
[Vh1's Tough Love]


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189.
[Broadway]


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 10 pages, 232 secrets from Secret Submission Post #121.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 1 - broken links ], [ 1 2 3 - not!secrets ], [ 1 - not!fandom ], [ 1 2 3 4 - too big ], [ 1 2 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[fscom.livejournal.com]

101. http://i41.tinypic.com/28jjed5.jpg

[summerstorm.livejournal.com]

I think the only people who don't hate that sort of formatting (I wouldn't go so far as to say I hate the people who format fic like that, but the format itself is enough to put me off reading anything) are the people who do that sort of formatting. Personally, I tend to assume they're compensating. If the story was good, the format would highlight the words rather than itself.

[(Anonymous)]

God, this is so true.

[suicidal-knife.livejournal.com]

I agree, it takes away from the feel of the story.

[eamane-elensar.livejournal.com]

People do that? Really?

[la-petite-singe.livejournal.com]

People do that?! Oh yeah, definitely annoying. :P

[plainjanejones0.livejournal.com]

Wth? who would do that?

[biocaam.livejournal.com]

They're e.e cummings wannabes. And they always fail hard. :/

[pkbitchgirl.livejournal.com]

People actually format their fics like that?

If so, they should be shot

[(Anonymous)]

In before "you barbarian, you just can't appreciate modern literature!!1!".

For me it depends entirely on whether the text they think is so special it needs such pretentious formatting is good enough to justify looking so pretentious.

[glitterfairy25.livejournal.com]

I've never seen anyone format their fics like that :S

[matitablu.livejournal.com]

WUT. I'm glad I've never come across a fic formatted like that so far, I think it would break my brain :-\

[bamf-girl.livejournal.com]

Who was that asshat poet that did that with their poetry? That guy's poems sucked, and making the words run off the page doesn't make them any better. I assume that whoever does this is just trying to compensate.

[notoriousreign.livejournal.com]

Ew, I don't ever wanna see a fic like that. ><

[muselolita.livejournal.com]

I've never seen anyone format their fics like that. I feel bad for whatever fandom you're in where that happens.

[teal-deer.livejournal.com]

There is exactly one case where this is permissible, and that is if you are writing of Leaves fanfiction.

And even then. You'd better be doing it the right way. Johnny doesn't use the weird formatting; that is Zampano's shtick. ; blue text is for and god even knows what the purple is for.

Other cases where maybe it's okay: survival horror fic done in the style of oL, and even then you're uhhh kind of being pretentious and you should you know. Think about your layout. Despite what everyone wants you to think, Danielewski was very deliberate about the way he did his layout.

TL;DR - Emulating the style of certain authors = okay. Doing it because you want to be ZOMG POSTMODERN!!!1!1111!!11 is doing postmodernism wrong (fanfiction is inherently postmodernist anyway oh god oh god someone help me I'm an English major)

[joyciel.livejournal.com]

omg, WHYYYYYYYYYY would anyone do that?

[(Anonymous)]

This secret just gave me House of Leaves flashbacks.

House of Leaves: awesome.
Strangely formatted fic: not so much. D:

[(Anonymous)]

and that's why i can't take any of the fics on that comm seriously.

[velvet-mace.livejournal.com]

Pretty much anything other than straight standard formatting gets ignored by me. I'm easily distracted by colors and strange fonts and it prevents me from sinking properly into the story. I can count on one hand the number of fics that were worth the effort of ignoring an obnoxious format.