[ SECRET POST #6228 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6228 ⌋

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


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Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 18 secrets from Secret Submission Post #890.
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.

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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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DAILY LINKS:

General comments → Off-topic discussion thread

Games thread → Thread for games/memes/etc.

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01. https://i.imgur.com/EZRugJY.jpg

[(Anonymous)]

“Voldimort wuz wearing a blak leather Jackson, blak tight jeans and fishnet pantz. He looked so sexah I almost had an orgy!!!!”

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, I hate this as well. Generally, everything that isn't a high school/coffeeshop/college or similar AU will be super awkward with the whole pronoun-and-identity introductions.
Also generally characters OOC soapboxing about the author's pet issue, often at the most bizarre Times in a plot. I would say that this is mainly an issue with younger authors but I've seen more than a few profiles that stated their ages way above twenty so it's not limited to age and/or lived experience.

[(Anonymous)]

It's suspicious how often it's the exact issue of "niche sexual orientations and genders" and "trending" ones (ah yes, just a fad, that identity. There's your real issue right there) that gets complaints in this type of secret about how characters would not behave because it's OOC, yet I have never seen a fanfic situation as egregious as the perpetual claim about characters pausing in life-threatening situations to soapbox about them.

[(Anonymous)]

Sounds like a teenager trying to write an ideal of being able to express pronouns in their own fanfic while learning the process of writing.

Of course I can't really judge it without seeing said fic for myself, but it just reminded me of the kind of fics that got written in the 2000s by American teenagers writing Japanese anime characters as American highschool students (an example of 'write what you know').

[(Anonymous)]

Oof, yeah. That would annoy me too. And I'm sure I was guilty of similar in the past.

[(Anonymous)]

In a world where reading/writing fanfic counts as activism, this is the performative stuff you get so people can feel proud of themselves for what would normally be just... crappy, clumsy writing.

[(Anonymous)]

Oh yes, but you're never going to not have this in fandom. It used to be gay headcanons, now it's ace headcanons and I'm sure it will be something else soon. There's nothing wrong with people writing OOC fic to explore something in the world or in themselves, it's usually extremely obvious and easy to avoid, and I think that I would have loved to do the same if I had been able to be online as a teenager.

[(Anonymous)]

To be honest, it doesn't really bother me. There's a lot of ways to be a bad writer and having your characters be a soapbox for whatever issue the author is really invested is an age-old way of being a bad writer. Some people grow past it and become better writers later while others are too far up their own ass to improve their writing and stay the same.

Fandom has always been a game of separating out the readable fic and gems from the dross and baby's first fic, or finding things to like in mediocre fic if there just aren't any good writers in your fandom. Back in my ff.net days, dodging all the bad crack OOC fic or the lemons written by someone who doesn't know how sex works and it shows was the main difficulty.

And often people grow out of bad writing habits too, so I say either enjoy what you get or just ignore it and wait for fandom to move on. Life's too short to read bad fic!

[(Anonymous)]

Fanfic is bad enough but I had to turn off a movie when a female nonbinary character marched into a park with an ax and the Asian ranger merely greeted "Hello what are your pronouns" and not "put down the ax ma'am!"

[(Anonymous)]

"Childish", well, some of the people writing such stuff might be literally children who are finding their way with this... (idk what the actual fandom is you're referring to to know whether it's likely that people <16, say, are reading/watching it)

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02. https://i.imgur.com/sc17XFh.png

[(Anonymous)]

I think he would have also been thrilled about getting it all over the audience.

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[meadowphoenix]

is it supposed to be a poetic analogy to blood and the siphoning of blood as a death? i don't think that's entirely wrong if so; sap is literally just carrying the sugar around the plant after it's been converted from starch. it's weird to call it the death of trees though unless they're overtapped? can they be overtapped to the point of harm?

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[(Anonymous)]

Anyone remembers Hydra trashparties? This's tame in comparison.

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[(Anonymous)]

"As a queer fan of the band since their original run, I'm getting so so tired of young queer fans gatekeeping and acting proprietary over their music. I keep seeing statements like "only queer fans can truly understand MCR" and "[Song] absolutely IS about [Insert lgbt experience here] and if you can't see it that you don't actually get the song". I was a queer MCR fan before some of ya'll were born. Are there themes like that in their songs? Yes. Is that literally all, or even the majority, of their music? No. That's you trying so hard to be the Only True Fans that your head-canons has overtaken your ability to think."

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[hey_hey_hey]

You didn't know RE4 was an action game before you played it?

Anyway. The remake was amazing obviously.

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[(Anonymous)]

I'm afraid they'll do a Space Camp reboot too gritty, but I'm really not sure what kind of movie you're thinking about. The original was not meant to be all that realistic, but it is actually based on the Alabama Space Science Exhibit Commission run Space Camp that exists and I don't see why they would want to get away from that, which it seems to me like they would have to if they set it a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away.

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[(Anonymous)]

I would agree, but Pickles the Drummer exists and the trans headcanon fans for him are nothing short of feral.

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[(Anonymous)]

It has taken me an enormously long time to learn not to offer people help if they don't ask for it directly.

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NS, NF, etc.

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Official advertise your fandom-related event thread.

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General comments:

(If the thread contains spoilery/triggery content please warn/post as 2nd comment so it collapses!
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Media with sequels that should have stayed a standalone

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What are some movies/novels/podcast episodes etc. that started out as standalones but later got sequels/got turned into a series that in your opinion would have been better off staying standalones?

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Games thread!

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