[ SECRET POST #5931 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5931 ⌋

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


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Will be missing a Friday post this week (traveling!). Just a heads up!

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 24 secrets from Secret Submission Post #850.
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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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/6HqDXyu.png

[(Anonymous)]

Considering the original book ending was going to have Matilda's brain explode and she died, most other endings are okay with me.

[philstar22]

I totally agree. I didn't like the movie much, for this reason and a few others. It was like Wizard of Oz for me where everyone else loves the movie and that's the version they think of, but I thought the movie was a bad adaption of a great book.

[(Anonymous)]

I definitely appreciate the logic of the book ending, that she didn't NEED her powers anymore and she finally had a real outlet for all that brainpower, but at the same time, there are so many stories where female characters lose their powers that I'm not all that fussed about a movie where a girl gets to be loved, smart, AND have special powers.

[(Anonymous)]

Eh, to each their own but sounds like a downer ending to me: a kid loses her powers/creativity because she's too busy. Kinda like most kids that grow up to become adults with jobs and/or families.

[(Anonymous)]

I can appreciate the reasoning behind the book's version, and it probably was a "better" ending in the literary sense. But man, I would hate that ending. Having powers and then losing them? What a kick in the teeth!

Having TK obviously doesn't remotely make up for being unloved, neglected, and abused by your family, but gaining a loving and nurturing home-life also doesn't make up for losing your magic freaking powers. The powers may have only developed as a way to cope with the absence of a nurturing home-life, but that doesn't mean that's all the powers would be to the person who had them.

It's not that I see the book ending as unhappy. I just don't see losing one's TK as something that wouldn't feel like a tremendous loss to a person, even if they were overall much happier and better off than they used to be.

[(Anonymous)]

I agree with you, but most people saw the movie first, and people on both sides are going to be defensive of the version they consider "theirs." I would've liked the entire movie a lot more if it hadn't been a book to begin with, but I hated everything from the powers being fun instead of a necessary burden to Matilda's changed "cool 90's kids are smug brats" personality.

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OP - Thank you for making my secret, secret maker!
Also, thank you to everyone for leaving interesting comments. I can appreciate why some people like the movie's ending. The book's ending will always be the more satisfying ending in my mind, because Matilda's intellect was also a power, and being able to use it was what made her happy.

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02. https://i.imgur.com/Js02jdX.jpg

[(Anonymous)]

You would not enjoy Joanna Newsom, I think.

[(Anonymous)]

Last time I tried listening to mainstream radio, half the singers sounded like that. So annoying. I miss variety in voices.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm not on Spotify - but I still find it weird when people have their whole song advertised in an advert. Like, I already hate the concept of adverts on youtube and spend most of my time waiting for it to be over - which means ignoring whatever is supposed to be avertised; so when a song comes up as an ad I just want to skip it as a knee-jerk response.

[(Anonymous)]

Just gave her a listen. I don't hate it. It's pretty middle of the road, for sure. I feel like in fifteen years I'll hear a song of hers and be able to guess by the sound of it that it came out in the early 20's, but eh, it's fine. I also don't really think of her voice as "fake baby." It's more like "I'm a bad bitch but also vulnerable and relatable." It definitely does feel affected, though, I agree with that.

[(Anonymous)]

Okay, just listened/watched about 20 seconds of two music videos

1. It's very much a "style" of singing. She sounds like w couple of other people who feature in songs/gave sorta dance-y/feelings songs that have come out in the last five or seven years. I wouldn't be able to name her in s line up, vocally.

2. Music videos are giving me suburban emo/indie vibes AND perhaps most grievous of all, she looks like she's lip syncing. Actively. Like there's a way to do it where it still looks like you're actually the one doing the singing in real time, and this is not how you do it. They need to hire someone to fix that video/sound editing or train her better, something! Because I know the money isn't being spent on the wardrobe...

Overall, I probably wouldn't listen to her. Giving me Jessie Reyes and some other people whose names I never learned. Not for me, and I dislike those kinds of ads too. I get why, but either show me something I might like it something so different I would be curious.

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[(Anonymous)]

100% with you on Teddy, he's just aggravating. Gene is more hit-or-miss. I think it depends on who he's with. If he's paired with Linda it's usually awful; she brings out the worst in him. With Bob they are often a really sweet pair. I enjoy seeing a kind father raising a kind son.

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[(Anonymous)]

Someday they might bone each other ~

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05. https://i.imgur.com/CTB9nHN.jpg

[(Anonymous)]

who, uh, who's doing this

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06. https://i.imgur.com/Szu9Jba.png

[(Anonymous)]

Read a recent copy of the Beano recently and was pleasantly surprised. Still very silly (in a fun way) but they've got a much more diverse 'cast' now. Good on them for changing with the times.

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Any totally epic April Fool's pranks spotted in the wild?

[(Anonymous)]

See any pranks on April Fool's Day?

Any ideas for next year?

Discuss.

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