[ SECRET POST #5972 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5972 ⌋

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


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[Figment 2: Creed Valley]



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[Coffeezilla]



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[xxxHolic/Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle/CLAMP]



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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 44 secrets from Secret Submission Post #854.
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.)

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01. https://i.imgur.com/RDXWn0B.png

[(Anonymous)]

I've never been really into MCU but I'm with you, OP. Especially if it was a relatively low stakes kind of plot (no alien invasion, no world ending and crazy huge bad guy villain) with plenty of humor. No lame attempts to constantly shoehorn in poorly written romances, references to comic book stuff that isn't going to be developed in the movie, or attempted tie-ins to other Marvel series/characters. Bonus points for a hilarious heist plot.

[kaijinscendre]

I'd also come back if they brought back Chris Evans as Captain America. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I've not watched anything from the MCU since Endgame.

[(Anonymous)]

You know what I secretly always wanted? Let Steve "die" or retire or disappear or whatever, then you have Falcon and Winter Soldier show where its sort of a buddy cop dynamic, and then at the end of the day they come home and Steve is just there sitting on the couch eating a giant bowl of lucky charms or whatever, chilling and giving them shit about whatever he saw about them on the news. Just that he's secretly been living with them the whole time, happily retired and acting as some sort of a house husband - either romantic or not idc.

[(Anonymous)]

I might have agreed had Falcon and the Winter Solider been remotely good.

[(Anonymous)]

I am but a mortal. If you give me what I deeply, sincerely, desire I will fold like a bereavement card.

[(Anonymous)]

I wouldn't trust MCU to get them right anymore.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, I feel this. I have all the usual complaints about the quality of most of the recent MCU movies, and I stand by those complaints, but ultimately, if Steve (Cap!Steve, not Biden!Steve) came back, my interest would be significantly restored.

And if Tony came back, I would be back on board so damn fast.

I tried to reserve judgement back in 2019, but even then I was 95% sure the franchise wouldn't be able to rekindle my interest after writing them both out. It just felt finished, to me, and probably would've still felt finished even if Tony and Steve had been written out in ways I was happier about.

No Steve is Good Steve

[(Anonymous)]

I never want to see Steve Rogers' smug, fatuous face again.

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02. https://i.imgur.com/yxUwIgJ.png

[(Anonymous)]

Well yeah, the Legends EU had a lot of crazy, not so great, stuff. Books and books of it, but it still added to the lore at the same time. Luke's love life was notoriously bad. (the Force ghost girlfriend, anyone?) The huge retcon of Dathomir that happened at some point made no sense. (Around the prequels I think b/c the Courtship of Princess Leia was not like that at all and oh no, another girlfriend for Luke!) The Corellian Trilogy had a great bit of lore, but awful story.

I mean, at least Boba Fett KILLED Sarlacc in the Legends EU before he escaped. And if he hadn't escaped we wouldn't have had the Mandalorian Armor trilogy and learned so much about Kuat Drive Yards and the Bounty Hunter's Guild which lore wise is neat. And well, Zahn, and Vietch and Kennedy when they did cloning and brought back Palpatine and turned Luke to the Dark Side for a bit, at least it was interesting and not, whatever IX was.

The problem is they are reusing EU ideas without getting why the EU ideas might have actually... worked story wise. Not that they always did. And by reusing them, to hardcore fans these ideas are trite and have been done better already! And also, it gets confusing on what's canon and what isn't. (We're at a choose your own canon adventure stage.)

I mean, I get it. I spent a few days being irrationally angry about Filoni putting in Space Whales, until I reminded myself it wasn't the Space Whales I was angry about it was "He had to explain hyperspace which needed no explanation." Space Whales are cool. They could be fun. Sometimes, questions don't need to be answered. Like, hyperspace and... how the force works.

[dragonofeternal]

I somehow had a moment of stupidity when reading this and thought at first that it was about the European Union. Surely Palpatine was here for like, metaphorical reasons!

But yeah, the star wars EU was a hot mess and a mixed bag of both good and bad stuff, and I think it's easy for people to look at them with rose-tinted glasses.

[(Anonymous)]

You can kudos and comment on whichever fic you like, but that's kind of a nasty attitude. Giving kudos to a popular fic you liked doesn't take anything away from a more obscure fic, you can give to both. If you really feel a fic doesn't deserve your attention because a lot of other people like it, you don't have to read it at all.

[(Anonymous)]

What was good about the EU is that they were perfectly willing to just give people the freedom to take weird, wacky, wild ideas and run with them. When it was bad, it wasn't for lack of creativity or willingness to try new things. That doesn't mean that it was perfect or amazing, but it's a much better *way* of failing.

Compare to the sequel trilogy, where everything is consciously conducted as a brand management exercise, and despite that the movie trilogy still had no plan whatsoever, and is run like shit, and is constantly cancelling movies and throwing people under the bus.

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03. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/616x569q90/922/WHO3VB.png
[Figment 2: Creed Valley]

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04. https://i.imgur.com/iE4YQLC.png

[(Anonymous)]

...I have literally never seen someone complain that they 'only' got hundreds of views etc. Does this really happen?

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05. https://i.imgur.com/aYhmMNd.png
[Coffeezilla]

[(Anonymous)]

His eyebrows look very similar to mine. I've never particularly cared for them (I was told as a young girl they looked like "man eyebrows" and I wasn't sure what that meant but I knew from the delivery it was bad), but this kind of makes me feel somewhat good about them? So thank you I guess?

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06. https://i.imgur.com/9FgQlwS.jpg
[xxxHolic/Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle/CLAMP]

[(Anonymous)]

Fair, lol.

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

[honigfrosch]

If it helps any: you're not the only one and the early cancellation made me sad.

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NS, NF, etc.

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How it should have gone - fix-its

[(Anonymous)]

Inspired by secrets 1 and 7 -

For a show that was cancelled too early or a plot you think is shit, how would you have preferred it to go? Do you imagine just a total rewrite or a fix it?

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