[ SECRET POST #6475 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6475 ⌋

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


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[Saint Seiya/Knights of the Zodiac]



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03. [SPOILERS for The Righteous Gemstones, season 3]




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04. [SPOILERS for Hell Followed With Us]




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05. [SPOILERS for Ghost: Rite Here Rite Now]
[WARNING for discussion of RL death/loss]




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06. [WARNING for discussion of sexual harassment/stalking]

[Gushing Over Magical Girls]



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07. [WARNING for discussion of JKR/transphobia]
















Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 00 pages, 00 secrets from Secret Submission Post #925.
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

Re: What media cliches are you sick of?

[(Anonymous)]

This

Re: Media that "Defined Your Life"

[(Anonymous)]

the Hobbit/LOTR books. honestly, everything else mentioned above me was media I liked but it never defined me. not even Star Wars, and there was a period just after 1999 where I was super hardcore Star Wars all day erryday. None of it definied my life.

except LOTR. so much so that the movies almost ruined it for me, I was so mad. but I recovered.

Re: What media cliches are you sick of?

[(Anonymous)]

+1, especially if the comedy is on a level of saying all the correct words for the situation but the listener is hearing something different. that goes back to Shakespeare, and when well-done it's just a pleasure seeing how it works out in the end even if you saw the miscommunication coming a mile away.

[(Anonymous)]

So we just need to replace a certain quota of, say, the Sailor Senshi with male characters next remake, right?

Rest in Peace Maggie Smith

[(Anonymous)]

She was 89 and had been acting for over seven decades. She was awesomely acerbic as Violet Crawley in Downton Abbey and she made a superior Mother Superior in Sister Act. She was a great actor in many, many projects for the stage and screen. She will be missed.

[(Anonymous)]

It's not even low key. Though the wording is so blatant that I rather suspect a lazy trolling attempt.

[(Anonymous)]

3/10 you got a few bites but they are less bites and more arguing on principle.

On the off chance this is not a lazy troll: Abloobloo poor widdle oppressed sexist, homophobic het shipper ;_; *makes you a tea steeped in your own tears* >_<

[(Anonymous)]

You didn't HAVE to give up any of those things. I'm so saddened that people feel obligated to stop enjoying the things that they love out of moral obligation. Feelings aren't moral. Keep enjoying the things you love without spending money on the franchise. Pirate episodes of the Cosby Show. CS Lewis is dead. You will have committed no sin by simply liking the things they made.

[(Anonymous)]

Maybe? But none of them are "he's good at being a Nazi", they're "he's good but not spectacular at being a Wehrmacht soldier, and he's been in a lot of front-line combat" which is a fine but fairly important distinction. Like, I suspect very few officers survived combat on the Eastern Front without either deserting or picking up at least one or two of those. (I also suspect very few people who were notably good at being Nazis ended up on the Eastern Front, that's where you send expendables.) I was expecting there to be one that signaled he'd been involved in a specific atrocity or worked with the SS or something.

I think he is maybe the only 'Allo 'Allo character with an Iron Cross though, so I bet that is what the secret writer is looking at, and I may be misreading how special the Iron Cross is.

[kamino_neko]

Whatever helps you get through it, no matter how weird it look from the outside, is good, OP.

[(Anonymous)]

Da but "defining a life" doesnt have to mean your life still revolves around HP all day every day. It just means the books have a special place in your heart because they defined a certain phase in your life because that's what they did -it wasn't just about the books, it was about the community, the collective wait for a new book in the series and how it defined the mental playgrounds for a lot of kids - this is an experience that's not something you can just turn off on a whim. And I say this as someone who read the first few books when there wasn't as much of a hype yet and dumped the series halfway through because I started to dislike it.

[(Anonymous)]

Dear gods you are lazy.

Re: What media cliches are you sick of?

[(Anonymous)]

I don't mind some miscommunication/misunderstanding if, and only if, it isn't dragged out too long and basically is the only basis for a plot to develop the way it does. Doubly so if the miscommunications pile up - like, you get one resolved, cue the next, rinse, repeat. Happens A LOT in CN BL novels and is often the only thing driving the plot and it's so frustrating.

Re: Media that "Defined Your Life"

[(Anonymous)]

Harry Potter, LotR, Discworld, American Girls, Hanna Barbera cartoons, super hero comics

Re: What media cliches are you sick of?

[(Anonymous)]

When a certain plot twist/reveal is visible to the audience from a mile away but it takes ages for it to be revealed in canon. Especially annoying When it's still treated (aimed at the audience, not the canon xharacters) like this big shock twist that clearly NOBODY expected.

At the same time, a plot twist/reveal getting pulled out of thin air with zero foreshadowing just for the sake of being shocking is ALSO annoying.

Re: Media that "Defined Your Life"

[(Anonymous)]

Hmm. There are lots of things I was DEEPLY into for periods of time and still like (the X-Files, Anne Rice novels), but I don't think any of them really defined my life, as such.

Re: Media that "Defined Your Life"

[(Anonymous)]

Krabat by Otfried Preußler.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm only angry because people like me, who have given up Harry Potter, are made to feel guilty about even being sad over losing our love for it. No, we must use every drop of our HP-related sadness for the harm JK Rowling has done to us, and be gleeful to throw HP away.

[(Anonymous)]

DA
Agree but also see where AYRT is coming from. For the living ones who have been exposed in my lifetime, I can’t enjoy it anymore. The crime or scandal overshadows the work for me. Maybe that will change over many years but it’s really too soon to say. It hasn’t happened yet with any of them.

[(Anonymous)]

You think everyone is trolling because we find blind love for one franchise boring and pitiful? Okay I guess

Re: Media that "Defined Your Life"

[(Anonymous)]

Nothing. A lot of media impacted my life in small or big ways. Or is sort of reflection of my personality. But I wouldn't say defined my life. I am just not an extremely obsessive person

[(Anonymous)]

DA yeah, I was never a huge fan, fortunately, but I had one song by the Lostprophets that I really loved. After all that shit got out, I deleted it drom my hard drive and never looked back (though I sometimes still get it stuck in my head).

[(Anonymous)]

Nah, it's just the assumption that everyone who really loves a certain book series clearly has never read another book is so endlessly dumb and oozing this sense of faux superiority on the basis of being dumb that its easier to assume you're trolling rather than actually that pathetic.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, Marion Zimmer Bradley was a hugely important author to me. I have a friend for whom Ender's Game was important. And we're both very sad about it. If someone said something by those authors was one of their favourite books I wouldn't judge (some people are better at separating art and artist than I am). Same for Harry Potter - if someone is fannish about it and doesn't funnel money to JKR or support her publically, that's fine. When they're going to Harry Potter theme parks and wearing merch etc., that's not okay.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm saying this with the best of intentions and not trying to be sarcastic here: just don't read threads like these. If you've already gone so far as to give up the fandom or at least not enthusiastically broadcast that you are a fan without-asterisks as mentioned above, then tbh that's all any reasonable person would ask for.

It's sad to lose a series you like. It's unfortunate that the creator turned out to be a shitter, is actively shitting on people, and is trying to get governments to shit on them with her. But that's not your fault. Shrug, say like yeah, I liked the series but don't do anything to fund or promote the creator any more, then don't bother with people who are mad at the fans who: buy official merch, promote the series on social media, or don't care about JKR and pretend like vocally loving Harry Potter isn't prolonging JKR's media presence and keeping her relevant.

Unless you're doing those things, you're not the person they're angry at. Defending yourself against things you're not even doing will make you mad for no reason.

I don't think anyone here would be angry at "I loved this series, and I hate that the creator being a shitheel terf ruined it for all of us." But the OP of the secret seems to be saying that people don't understand that it was loved, and that you can't change the fact that you loved it; we do understand that. That's exactly why it's sad.