[ SECRET POST #6105 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6105 ⌋

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 47 secrets from Secret Submission Post #873.
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Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
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Inspired by #4:

[meadowphoenix]

What names do you genuinely think didn't fit a character? What characters do you think would have been diminished being named anything else?

Re: Inspired by #4:

[meadowphoenix]

I'm cheating a bit, but some of the english names for Sailor Moon are so odd. Like Sailor Mars as Raye? (I do not think Rei feels like the same as Raye at all). Sailor Jupiter as Lita??? Darien!!?!?!?! Meanwhile Mina is the perfect english name for Sailor Venus.

Re: Inspired by #4:

[(Anonymous)]

Genshin new character named Writhsley or something like that. Too ridiculous.

Re: Inspired by #4:

[(Anonymous)]

I'm never getting over Cloud being Cloud. I understand it's meant to be a corruption of "Claude" but still feel like that soft-ass name made the English-speaking fandom treat him 90% less seriously. Then again, Square has seldom been good at naming characters.

Re: Inspired by #4:

[(Anonymous)]

he's not fictional, but Lenny Kravitz.

Re: Inspired by #4:

[(Anonymous)]

I was never thrilled with Barry for The Flash, but, honestly, Wally isn't much better.

Bear with me on this dichotomy - Teen Wolf the show is so divorced from the movie that I think they should have called it something else and not used any of the character names from the movie at all, however, Stiles is just so freaking Stiles that he would not be nearly the character he is if he had a different name, even an equally quirky one.

Re: Inspired by #4:

[(Anonymous)]

A lot of older media is kind of funny in that way because of the way name connotations have changed since the time they were made. In the last book in the Anne of Green Gables series, Rilla of Ingleside, the title character says she wishes her family had chosen to call her by her first name, Bertha, instead of her middle name, Marilla, because Bertha was beautiful and romantic while Marilla was old-fashioned and frumpy. Today those connotations are totally reversed. I'm not sure I would have been able to take the book as seriously if she had been called Bertha.

Re: Inspired by #4:

[(Anonymous)]

I've ranted about names not fitting in Hetalia before and I'll add Francès from The Prince and the Dressmaker. Is Parisian, looks of North African descent, or might be mixed-race Moor and that's a fucking English name and *Nobody* was called that in Paris nor in then-French colonies a century ago, nobody is called that *nowadays* It would already be odd for her to be called Françoise but still plausible. Francès? now that's just plain stupid. That screams "I'm doing no research at all for My Artistique Booque because Europe isn't real anyway".

a rec thread

[(Anonymous)]

Please give me good olde Web Rings Era fanfics. The long ones that maybe only available via The Wayback Machine. I remember loving Sherlock Holmes and Highlander archive fics. I've been quite stressed with life and tried browsing AO3 but didn't like the most popular works in HP and anime fandoms. I'm looking for some angst and friendship.

Feel free to request any recs.

Re: a rec thread

[(Anonymous)]

I think a bunch of Sentinal fic archives got imported to AO3. X-Files, too. Most of those were 90s/00s webring fics.

Re: a rec thread

[(Anonymous)]

Still waiting on those wrecked-Buggy fics the previous secret maker promised! xD

One Piece Live Action

[(Anonymous)]

Speaking of the One Piece live action: does anyone have recs for fics or fanvids already? I've been looking but few things have grabbed me so far.

Here is what I've found:

Free to Fly, ensemble:
https://youtu.be/ZEhF-CdLGE4?si=Fz2QwMmBVmH3c1j-

99 Problems, Zoro-centric (the audio/video is weirdly crap in two or three moments but I like it otherwise):
https://youtu.be/WMlDrFizc44?si=5JIFRSW0IR6qR9qH

Something Like a Soul, Nami & Zoro bonding after episode 8:
https://archiveofourown.org/works/49971325#main

Keeping Things Simple, Luffy/Zoro but can be read as gen:
https://archiveofourown.org/works/50141809#main

Re: a rec thread

[(Anonymous)]

If you want an old school anime rec, the DBZ fic Vejiitasei Ascendant is hands down the best fanfic I’ve ever read for any fandom. Though it is unfortunately unfinished.

Light on the hurt heavy on the comfort?

[(Anonymous)]

I love hc fic where a lot of the hurt is alluded to or happens off screen and the majority if the fic is confort and recovery. People having to rediscover being human and being supported and loved etc etc etc. I have been having a tough time finding anything lately, just fic that promises comfort but turns out to be closer to torture pork with one paragraph of comfort at the end. :/

Prefer m/m pairings but will honestly read anything. I'll read most fandoms old or new, though I don't care for ones that focus on kids or teens too much. Also don't care for Harry Potter in general.

When you're the only shipper...

[(Anonymous)]

Question I've been wanting to ask since yesterday, after noticing many anons considered themselves to be the sole member of their rarepair's fanclub. Do any of you feel like sharing your rarepairs, or your proud achievements? (like "they have 15 fics on AO3 and I wrote 14 and the last one was inspired by my fic") I'll share mine in a bit.

Re: When you're the only shipper...

[(Anonymous)]

My first rarepair was Glenn/Cyrus from this SNES JRPG called Chrono Trigger. Glenn is a playable main character and he gets an entire chapter explaining how he got his current form (a frog's) because he was weeping on Cyrus' body after he was killed by a villain instead of running away like Cyrus asked him to. Cyrus was a "big brother" figure to him, "my mentor" "my only friend" "the person who inspires me" and protected him and all that. I was pissed off when I realized there were more fics involving Glenn and said villain than Cyrus. WTF. The game gives us an entire Glenn-loved-Cyrus(-as-a-friend,-sure)-focused chapter AND time-traveling shenanigans for what? 1 one-sided fic on FF.net, 1 4-line drabble on AO3 was all we had until 2019. The people who wrote the three fics they got since 2019: heroes

My current rarepair is annoying me to bits, Jebrael/Tirzad from Genshin Impact - so if you ever see a madman preaching about it, ntmy. I thought it was so obvious I stopped screencapping their bickering halfway into the quest because I was 100% sure someone else would have done it before me since I was almost a year late. The hottest hunk in Genshin so far and the Akademiya twink he travels with? Who happens to be a relative of the Love Of His Life (also an academic he traveled with)? And also questions if his daughter was a "result" of their research ("you know other men")? Yes, everyone hates Tirzad, but a total of 0 fic or art is still less than I expected. I'm probably not going to be the one to write it, just wanted to complain.

Now for an amusing story in which I was the hero. I got into a popular shounen in the early 2010s and felt a little "hMmMmMmM" about this rarepair. Wrote very low-stakes fluff. To this day I get comments on it because even now this ship only has 4 fics on AO3.

Anyway, please share your stories and make me feel like I am not alone.

Re: When you're the only shipper...

[philstar22]

I shipped Galadriel/Sauron in a semi-cracky way before Rings of Power. I think there were like two of us who shipped. Now everyone ships, but honestly I don't ship it in the Rings of Power version at all.

Re: When you're the only shipper...

[(Anonymous)]

Michael/Alex from The Big Chill was mine! Though at least I had one friend to get into it with me. Those who remember seeing The Big Chill may recall that Alex is dead the entire time, and that it's kind of integral to the plot.

My super rarepairs from Buckaroo Banzai and St Elsewhere both had exactly one other person who independently shipped and wrote fic before I did, plus the friend(s) I could drag in.

Currently the ONLY person-- SOMEHOW-- who considers Ned and Lucky the superior Three Amigos ship and have been hoping OMitB fans might be swayed, the way Good Omens fans got into Bright Young Things, except instead of not appearing on screen together despite having a flirty moment in the book, Ned and Lucky have a duet/dance number where Ned briefly steps into the role of love interest, and a lot of fond gazing during another song, and I do feel like if you're sold on the old man chemistry in OMitB that's built on nearly forty years of friendship, it's actually really something to go back to the movie where they *met* and see how much the chemistry is already there.

Re: When you're the only shipper...

[(Anonymous)]

I have no achievements, but I still ship Bishop/Roenick from the Assault on Precinct 13 remake like burning.

Re: When you're the only shipper...

[greghousesgf]

House/Dwarf!Mom
Maleficent/Jaffar
Valerie/Melody

Re: When you're the only shipper...

[(Anonymous)]

I know some people ship my rarepair because there is a fic for it, and it has lots of comments thanking the author for writing the ship because it needs more love. But I don't like but the fic because it villainizes the canon love interest of one of the characters. (Fandom's too small for me to want to name, sorry.)

Based on #5: Your favorite "survival in the wilderness" books!

[(Anonymous)]

The ones I remember fondly from my childhood are:

Jean Craighead George: My Side of the Mountain, Julie of the Wolves
Scott O'Dell, Island of the Blue Dolphins
Gary Paulsen, Hatchet
Astrid Lindgren, Ronia, the Robber's Daughter
Julie Andrews, Mandy
Anne S. Lindbergh, Worry Week
E.L. Konigsberg, From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler (I know, not exactly "wilderness", but I loved it as a kid)

I know there are more I'm forgetting. What are yours?

Shower thoughts

[(Anonymous)]

Share yours here.

I'll start: Omegaverse might have officially started in the Supernatural fandom but if you think about it, isn't it essentially just Sentinel/Guide AUs with added dog dick and heats?

Omegaverse is to Sentinel/Guide AUs what Fifty Shades of Grey was to Twilight.

Wow

[(Anonymous)]

This place is still going. Amazing. Even more amazing a Goodies secret on my first time back in probably 10 years.