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⌈ Secret Post #6285 ⌋

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Name the fandom. And repeats, etc.

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01. https://i.imgur.com/UnXZpZ1.png

[(Anonymous)]

Same. It's almost always there to shoehorn in a reason to have one (1) female character to no-homo Our Hero, because all of the actual character and relationship development is between the male characters (if there's any character/relationship development at all). She could be replaced by a lamp, for all the actual relationship Our Hero has with her. At this point I'm not even mad, I'm just bored.

[beed]

I can agree with this, anon! It just doesn't mesh with the media when it's shoehorned in like that.

[(Anonymous)]

I mostly agree but there's also non-romance movies out there that do managed to do a love-subplot well. They're not the majority mind you, but I am always so pleasantly surprised when they crop up because it shows it can be done well, just a lot of writers don't bother because man+woman=romance even if the set-up is flimsy.

It's not a huge bother for me at the same time, just a bit dull?

[(Anonymous)]

It's funny you say that because I find it's the opposite: romances that are written as a smaller side part of a larger story tend to be, IMO, much better written than romances that are the focus of a story. I can't stand the romance genre for this very reason.

[(Anonymous)]

Yup. As someone who eats up romance, shoe-horned romances can fuck off. Unless the point of the shoehorn is to mock how bad it is.

[(Anonymous)]

As a rule, I do not believe the statement, "Thing X is never/hardly ever done well." What almost everyone means by that is, "Thing X is not my cup of tea," but this is nigh impossible for anyone to admit. One's personal tastes are conceived as a reflection of objective quality.

[(Anonymous)]

I have hated romances in most non-romance media since I was a wee child. I co-sign all of the OP!

[feotakahari]

I think the real issue is that romance is better when it’s not part of a big-budget mainstream release.

[meadowphoenix]

yeah i mean no one is doing like The Mummy anymore! I find that a lot of non-romance genres that add romance to the main two characters don't seem to know how to make it a natural part of the overall flow of the movie. the pace usually stops for the romance in an annoying way. for me the exception to this is comedies which cross genres. they can usually add romance in okay.

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02. https://i.imgur.com/oqZhpB3.png

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, but that was also the era of the surprise homophobic and/or transphobic "joke" scene. So maybe it is deserved.

[(Anonymous)]

Oof yeah that would hit hard. I haven't run into it...yet.

[(Anonymous)]

lol. Should start putting that on things coming out right now. I mean, it IS true.

[(Anonymous)]

Surprisingly, this doesn't make me feel old (yet; we'll see what happens as time goes by and I rewatch old favorites).

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03. https://i.imgur.com/zXeeIN3.png

[(Anonymous)]

Lmao yes I love that line too <3

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[(Anonymous)]

Douglas Fairbanks Sr would make a great Bond.

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[(Anonymous)]

Don't make me cry, OP... I loved N'Sync so much... sigh.
And Justin was my least favourite of the bunch lol

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06. https://i.imgur.com/d73BHIQ.jpeg

[(Anonymous)]

This is the issue with most fanfic>published books authors tbh, fic doesn't require you to do the heavy-work of building the setting as it's already there for you to dive in, this often means that those authors do the same with their original stories and it... doesn't work. The gaps are glaring in multiple places, the relationships, the world-building, hell even explaining what is going on in general sometimes because it's how they're used to writing so they don't change for their personal stuff and it shows.

Some fic>published authors can not fall into that trap, either by practice that we don't see or they understand how to shift their narrative structure to suit a from-scratch setting. But most don't imo and it makes reading their work difficult to engage with because it's all so paper thin.

I'm not down on fic>published authors, I'm happy if they actually get a shot, I just wish more of them were better when it comes to stories I'd need to pay actual money to read. xD

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Band or Musician You Were Obsessed With

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What band or musician were you obsessed with when you were younger?
Or alternatively - what was the first band/musician you remember listening to as a kid?

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Games thread!

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#WhenTaken #24

I scored 920/1000 🎉

1️⃣ 📍 22.7 metres - 🗓️ 7 yrs - ⚡ 191 / 200
2️⃣ 📍 565.5 metres - 🗓️ 0 yrs - ⚡ 200 / 200
3️⃣ 📍 378.5 metres - 🗓️ 8 yrs - ⚡ 189 / 200
4️⃣ 📍 1161 km - 🗓️ 7 yrs - ⚡ 140 / 200
5️⃣ 📍 212.9 metres - 🗓️ 0 yrs - ⚡ 200 / 200
https://whentaken.com/
Good one today. Dropped the ball on a 4th one but I was so sure that I know the place so didn't check if it was true. But to be fair to me I was in 2 out of 5 locations here