[ SECRET POST #5823 ]

[case]

⌈ Secret Post #5823 ⌋

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


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Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 10 secrets from Secret Submission Post #833.
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

[case]

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.)

[(Anonymous)]

Hey Case my comment posted three times in the 'The strange evolution of a fan artist's work' thread, could you delete the extra's when you get a moment please?

(frozen comment)

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DAILY LINKS:

General comments → Off-topic discussion thread

Games thread → Thread for games/memes/etc.

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01. https://i.imgur.com/yA4ZLhH.png

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, sometimes I get the feeling that a producer has sat through the edit with a stopwatch and gone "we've gone seven point three minutes without an action scene, so we need one here" or "now is where we need to have the secondary hero pull a betrayal even though they've shown no sign beforehand, for the twist scene". It isn't fun at this point.

[(Anonymous)]

Sadly agree. A lot of movies feel like they're constructed around Big Action Sequences which get the lion's share of the budget and focus. Stuff like characterization, overall plot, writing and pacing are a lower priority, IMO.

[meadowphoenix]

There's definitely a race to the most efficiently profitable media and I don't like it either. Everything happening with HBO is gross. Apple is doing interesting stuff, even if I think it's extremely sketchy for these tech companies to start owning/being media companies.

[(Anonymous)]

so many ZOMGTWISTS! and SHOCKREVEALS! now feel like they're designed solely to get a reaction out of the audience (because social media buzz is the currency now), instead of the characters

[rosehiptea]

It's not just shows and movies. I feel like every single mystery novel these days is marketed as having a "shocking" twist ending. Of course I don't want it to be obvious from the beginning who did it (unless it's supposed to be) but I'd rather they put more effort into the rest of the writing and less into blowing my mind with their "shocking" twist which often isn't that great anyway.

[(Anonymous)]

Have to agree. It's like we've gotten to a point where they're trying to put a twist on a twist on a twist, and you just get this gibberish writing where the thing someone might be expected to feel has to be contradicted, and the first thing they say about what's going on has to be proved false, and also all the following assertions (from all characters involved in a scene), and the writers hope to be disorienting enough that whatever they eventually choose for a story-direction will be considered smart and people will go with it. And I'm like, "no." Witty dialog has its place, but not at the expense of creating or communicating solid characterizations. Or interesting stories that the writers actually committed to.

I think at some point (when it wasn't this common) someone made money by doing the verbal equivalent of having their characters throw a lot of spaghetti at the wall, and different parts stuck for different people. And that promoted a lot of arguing then in fandom, also, because the characters canonically said a lot of mutually contradictory things. But at this point ... it just feels like we're stuck in a multi-canon crossover with the absurdist play, The Bald Soprano.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah TBRH I noticed this when I tried getting into a couple Kdramas on Netflix recently.

I'm always surprised that the show I'm watching is a mystery show, usually involves at least one murder/mysterious death.

And then I heard that the new Wednesday also is built around a mystery.

And it's like, so this the peak of prestige TV or whatever the fuck we're calling the entertainment industry now? Every show is more or less a cop procedure dressed up as not that.

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[(Anonymous)]

I'd love a white Christmas, I'm going to do that too. Frostyshivers, y'all.

[feotakahari]

Some folks say it doesn't feel like Christmas
If you can't look outside and see some snow
But I don't recall that it was snowing
In Bethlehem two thousand years ago
—It’s Christmas Once Again in San Francisco

[(Anonymous)]

Please do! We're not getting snow around Chanukah/Christmas this year and that SUCKS.

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[(Anonymous)]

I'm glad I'm not the only one thinking that. It was not ideal.

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[(Anonymous)]

I'll bite. What's the story in The Velvet Vampire? (Asking as someone who doesn't know this canon.)

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[feotakahari]

I take it this somehow involves the wire monkey and the cloth monkey? Wire Monkey would have been an okay name.

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[(Anonymous)]

I have no idea who those guys are, but I'm rooting for you, OP!!

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[meadowphoenix]

Orson Welles really is that dude when it comes to production/direction. A proto-James Cameron imo but with significantly better writing.

[fscom]

NS, NF, etc.

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Official advertise your fandom-related event thread.

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Official clickables thread.

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General comments:

(If the thread contains spoilery/triggery content please warn/post as 2nd comment so it collapses!
Please collapse images, too!)

Quick car question

[(Anonymous)]

What would be a fancy car that a teen girl in 96-98 would have, one that would make her stand out in the school parking lot? Without going into supercar territory, obviously, something realistic for a kid from a well off, but not superrich, family to have? Can anyone help with that?

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Games thread!

[(Anonymous)]

#WhereTaken #80, 3/6 📷
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⭐ Streak: 6

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Goddamn microstates.