[ SECRET POST #6396 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6396 ⌋

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


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[The Goblin Emperor]



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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 17 secrets from Secret Submission Post #914.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 1 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

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Secret #7: confidently wrong!

[(Anonymous)]

From Secret #7, tell me about the wrong things authors have written in passing that yanked you out of the story.

In one of her books Patricia Cornwell referred to someone having eyes "as blue as a malamute's." The book was obviously not about dogs so I kept reading but I did laugh!

Re: Secret #7: confidently wrong!

[(Anonymous)]

Ahh, the old husky/malamute mix up. I never get why people don't fact check these things!

I won't read most books or fic set in the state I grew up in because it will just be riddled with inaccuracies and it throws me off.

Re: Secret #7: confidently wrong!

[(Anonymous)]

I don’t remember the name of the book, but it was set in LA and the writer had clearly never traveled through LA via public transportation because there were a lot of errors there.

Re: Secret #7: confidently wrong!

[(Anonymous)]

Similarly, not a book in this case but a long college AU - but it was set at my alma mater and the author had clearly just picked the school at random.

Re: Secret #7: confidently wrong!

[(Anonymous)]

Reminds me of all the location errors in the Dan Brown books.

Re: Secret #7: confidently wrong!

[greghousesgf]

a character's name changed on the same page.
Not a fanfic either. This was a published book.

Re: Secret #7: confidently wrong!

[(Anonymous)]

Someone had a fic where they drove across the US in a day and I just sat there confused, thinking surely I misread that. But then they had them turn around and cross the country again, Maine to Southern Cali, in another day! Just no.

Re: Secret #7: confidently wrong!

[(Anonymous)]

The record for the Cannonball Run challenge is 25 hours 39 minutes so that would certainly be a record.

Re: Secret #7: confidently wrong!

[(Anonymous)]

*tries to imagine plowing through everything at around 130-140 mph, never stopping to take a piss or stretch or get gas or eat, miraculously never getting pulled over and experiencing ideal conditions all the way over*

Ah, that's just adorable.

Re: Secret #7: confidently wrong!

[(Anonymous)]

Oh man... a supposed 'regency AU', but one male character was wearing a shirt with buttons and a belt, and one female character was wearing BLUE NAIL POLISH and also just like... casually swearing in mixed company. I had to scroll back up and read the tags again several times.

Re: Secret #7: confidently wrong!

[(Anonymous)]

I'm currently reading a "Regency" historical fantasy that's had so many weird inaccuracies that I've had to pretend it's just mid-20th century.

Re: Secret #7: confidently wrong!

[(Anonymous)]

Stargate SG1 had Sam Carter confidently exclaim that Colorado Springs doesn't have a zoo. It does. It's a pretty awesome zoo actually. It's RIGHT near Cheyenne Mountain base where SG1 is based. It's called the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo even.

But the show was good enough to get the name of the city around Cheyenne Mountain base correct (Colorado Springs, Colorado) because half of fanfiction authors thought it was Cheyenne, Wyoming. And, like, I get it. They're both rectangle states you've only ever flown over. But come the fuck on y'all. I'm still mad a decade later.

Re: Secret #7: confidently wrong!

[(Anonymous)]

I can't think of specific examples rn, but so damn many "she smelled of (flowers that have no scent)."

Right up there with New World edible nightshades and corn/maize and beans/pumpkins in ostensibly medieval European fantasy.

Actually I recently saw a 1970s(? Maybe? It had an ISBN so not that old) non-fiction book claiming that medieval Europeans must've had access to some kind of pumpkin or squash. The author mentioned edible gourds, which they did have, as a separate thing, so idk what they meant.

Re: Secret #7: confidently wrong!

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, gourds are native to Africa and Asia and were known but not very popular in Europe. But these days "gourd" is also used to mean pumpkin/squash and those are native to the Americas. People get tripped up on that, but also I think sometimes it's hard to imagine, say, Italian or Spanish cuisine without tomatoes!

Re: Secret #7: confidently wrong!

[(Anonymous)]

An emotional moment where the main character quoted her beloved favorite book with a line that isn't in the book, only one of the movie adaptations.

The "favorite book" was A Little Princess and the line was "All girls are princesses... (Yada yada yada)"

Re: Secret #7: confidently wrong!

[(Anonymous)]

This one's not necessarily "wrong" but just... one size fits all?

On an episode of the Golden Girls, Rose experienced a heart attack, but with the typical "collapse preceded by pain in arm" thing. Of course, this was thirty or so years ago, and now we understand that heart attack symptoms in women don't necessarily present this way, at least not in every case.

Are there any characters, tropes, or ships you originally disliked

[(Anonymous)]

But an author or story changed your mind on it?

Re: Are there any characters, tropes, or ships you originally disliked

[(Anonymous)]

So many. There are a bunch of kinks I originally had no interest in or actively disliked but then one damn author turns everything on its head.

Re: Are there any characters, tropes, or ships you originally disliked

[kaijinscendre]

I hate cannibalism. I don't like it as a horror trope and DEFINITELY don't like it as a kink.....but this Steve/Bucky fic is the only one that doesn't squick me out. https://archiveofourown.org/works/10678899

I can't really think of any others for tropes. Most that I really dislike, I still do.

For pairings, I've only loved one Luffy/Sanji fic despite trying others but it was so beautifully written. Trying to think of any others pairings but can't. :/

Re: Are there any characters, tropes, or ships you originally disliked

[(Anonymous)]

Cannibalism kinks- yucky!

Re: Are there any characters, tropes, or ships you originally disliked

[(Anonymous)]

Cannibalism as a metaphor for obsession is a lovely story device but I can see how it squicks people.

Re: Are there any characters, tropes, or ships you originally disliked

[philstar22]

Well, I still hate humiliation for the most part. But when it comes to Hux/Kylo, I do like it as long as there is a mix of praise. It just feels very in character and works with this ship only.

Re: Are there any characters, tropes, or ships you originally disliked

[(Anonymous)]

The idea of Drarry always provoked a very strong "nope" whenever I heard or thought about it. But then I got very bored during the covid lockdown and one of my mutuals kept reccing Drarry fics, so eventually I decided to give one a chance. And just like that, I ended up shipping it.

I basically just had to realize that my mental image of Drarry was very different from what most of fandom was actually doing with the ship.

Re: Are there any characters, tropes, or ships you originally disliked

[(Anonymous)]

I don't like watersports but in one fic I didn't notice the tag and the scene was actually surprisingly hot. Still skip it on other fic though.

I used to dislike hanahaki, which I have come around on now.