[ SECRET POST #6291 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6291 ⌋

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


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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

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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/DtwIlvt.jpeg

[(Anonymous)]

I can't think of any recs that aren't original romance fiction (that I own but haven't yet read, so wouldn't recommend anyway) but...do you have a favorite, OP?

Because I, too, love me a good arranged marriage.

[(Anonymous)]

I have a rec! It's a fic I'm rereading right now! It's for Our Flag Means Death, and instead of Stede Bonnet in canon running away to become a pirate on his own, he marries one for diplomacy (and also to escape his stifling life).

https://archiveofourown.org/works/39152790

[(Anonymous)]

Me, too. I looove arranged marriage.

Some of my favorites (all MDZS)
https://archiveofourown.org/works/27341635
https://archiveofourown.org/works/30038865
https://archiveofourown.org/works/25490176
https://archiveofourown.org/works/33240166

[bookblather]

Commenting here unveiled to track the recs, because dang do I love me some good arranged-marriage fic. You're not alone, OP, and have you read Winter's Orbit, by Everina Maxwell, by any chance?

[(Anonymous)]

Good arranged marriage is the best. It's why I really got into The Americans, even though I claimed many more "intellectual" reasons.

[harpers_child]

Must Brave the Thorns is technically a Witcher story, but it's a universe where they aren't Witchers they're something else and is mostly about side characters and OCs.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/35334604/chapters/88066684

[(Anonymous)]

RECs!

Warhammer 40k - My Knight So Daring by holy_lustration - One knight world conquers another world (low tech/medieval society except giant mech suits) and peace is brokered with a marriage.

Not Fanfiction - The Half-Orc's Maiden Bride by Ruby Dixon - Exactly what it says on the tin, spinster daughter of a minor lord gets sold to the highest (only) bidder in a political marriage. Then they get married three times and make out about it.

I don't really like arranged marriage fics unless I feel like the canon supports it. When we don't even know the character's parents or they're all low status individuals seeing them as princes and princesses is offputting. Also, no one seems to dig into the implications of a same-sex arranged marriage. There's some meat on those bones and I'd like to see them gnawed.

[(Anonymous)]

I like arranged marriages but never voice it due to the culture I was raised in. Wouldn't want anyone IRL to debatebro me about how I like arrange marriage fanfics but how dare I turn my nose up on it in my own personal life or when I am critical of our culture forcing young people to wed for reasons other than because the couple wants to wed.

[(Anonymous)]

Currently reading Ali Hazelwood's BRIDE...
And I am so bored!

Don't take this the wrong way anon, but you might like it, one of the things that is turning me off to it is the miscommunication trope.

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

[(Anonymous)]

Okay, but this applies to literally every ship ever. The bigger the ship, the more obvious it is, but honestly, I've yet to find a a ship with even a modest-size fandom following that doesn't suffer from this.

[(Anonymous)]

I mean, this is just par the course for shipping in general. People tend to ship tropes more than they ship characters. And if the character don't fit fully into into the trope the shipper wants from them, they'll just be made to fit.

[(Anonymous)]

Procrustes, a figure from Greek mythology who abducted travelers and stretched or chopped their bodies to fit the length of his bed.[2]

yeah, that's funny

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[Baldur's Gate 3]

[(Anonymous)]

Awww, you don't have to feel guilty OP it can happen! I've not tried a Durge run yet but from what I've heard it's very good and I can't wait(finishing my first solo run before I delve into that since I played the game with my gf first), so maybe I'll love my first Durge character more than my other two. Who knows?

But it's all good, you're loving the game and you're playing a second run when you normally don't, I think that by itself is a good thing. :)

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[(Anonymous)]

I agree they should skip apology vids, they are just begging for interaction and for people to give them an ego salving by graciously forgiving them, but they definitely need to do more admission of wrongdoing vids.

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[(Anonymous)]

Ok, but what did she say? Why is this a secret?

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06. https://i.imgur.com/QfsQKm7.png

For those wondering...

[(Anonymous)]

He made a call-out post with a screenshot of her comment, didn't hide her name and said that when he was in the store, he was working and that he wasn't a zoo animal there for entertainment. (Paraphrase, obviously.) It was great.

OP

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[(Anonymous)]

If you've never been to an IMAX theater, this level of projection is what it's like.

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NS, NF, etc.

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Official advertise your fandom-related event thread.

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General comments:

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What movies have you seen in an IMAX theater?

[(Anonymous)]

inspired by the first comment on #7

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Games thread!

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