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⌈ Secret Post #6545 ⌋

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What do you have STRONG fandom opinions about?

Captain Kirk would NOT be a Slytherin! This was especially popular after the JJ Abrams movies.

(Also less strong opinion, but I will never shut up about how I think TOS Kirk roots for the Iowa Hawkeyes and AOS Kirk roots for the Iowa Cyclones. IYKYK)

Abrams Kirk would be a Slytherin tho. TOS would be a Gryffindor.

For some reason I want to say TOS would be Hufflepuff.

I always thought that TOS Kirk would be Ravenclaw and AOS Kirk as Hufflepuff.

Hiccup is a Ravenclaw and I will die on this hill

That Darcy Lewis, the vast majority of the time, is just used as a canon self insert.

And of course...all my opinions about Steve Rogers, Civil War, and Endgame. 😬

Same here, plus my dislike of the "rape as backstory" thing for Bucky.

I have SO MANY strong Opinions about Steve Rogers and Bucky Barnes. It is ridiculous.

Also, Darcy the self insert mary sue always irrationally annoyed me. Idk why because it happens in every fandom in some form, but I fucking hate fandom/fic Darcy. I don't mind her at all in the movies though.

SHE IS EVERYWHERE! I've seen her in The Mandalorian.

Whaaat? That is hilarious and infuriating

Darcy sometimes is, but this can be irritating because Darcy can be present in a story without the assumption that she's a fan self-insert. I've written Darcy and I'm nothing like Darcy. I don't relate to her particularly any more than I relate to Clint. I could be Darcy's mom,ffs.

Marmee gives Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy copies of the New Testament, not Pilgrim's Progress.

Margaret isn't leaving the army in the M*A*S*H finale.

Maddie (Code Name Verity) is not a boring narrator.

People thought she would leave the army? D:

I think the confusion is understandable because she says "working stateside in a hospital" and people take that to mean a civilian hospital. But if you read between the lines of Margaret's scenes you can argue the writer's intention is an army hospital - the point is her choosing a nursing position over getting a promotion.

Why do you think it was the New Testament?

Because it says "that beautiful old story of the best life ever lived" and Christians believe that Jesus lived, while the main character of Pilgrim's Progress is a creation of John Bunyan. Then Meg says "mother wants us to read and love and mind these books, and we must begin at once. We used to be faithful about it; but since father went away, and all this war trouble unsettled us, we have neglected many things." Since father is a chaplain, it makes sense that they begin to neglect Bible reading when he left.

The biggest hint is in Chapter 12: Camp Laurence. Marmee writes to Jo "I write a little word to tell you with how much satisfaction I watch your efforts to control your temper. You say nothing about your trials, failures, or successes, and think, perhaps, that no one sees them but the Friend whose help you daily ask, if I may trust the well-worn cover of your guide-book." The custom is to capitalize words when referring to God or Jesus.

I'll also accept a Bible with both books instead of one.

Edited 2024-12-07 03:02 (UTC)

Seems legit.

Bedelia did not cut off and cook her own leg, goddamnit.

Melkor did not torture/abuse Sauron. That's not how I read their dynamic. Sauron was the only one he genuinely shared power with. I just don't see it.

the more you talk about online LOTR fandom the happier I am that I don't engage with online LOTR fandom.

who the fuck do they think was literally commanding both Utumno and Angband for eons?? who else was making sure orcs were bred and monsters terrorized the Eldar while Melkor was chained up?? the will to think Sauron wasn't actually second-most evil for 10 thousand years is astonishing.

Yup. It all started with really popular fic, the first big Melkor/Sauron fic, and it kind of set the tone for the fandom for a while. There is a pretty good split on takes, now, though. The power sharing take is much more common, and there are some great fics out there.

The nuance I'd like to see is Sauron as Melkor's sniveling sidekick, being extremely happy to participate in his lord's evil but then also being turned loose to commit to his own level of evil when unsupervised, as he was for so long. Just what did he do on his own for "three ages" whatever that amount of time was? How comfortable was he as the big dog until he had to scramble the Balrogs to go save Melkor from Ungoliant? There's so much potential in characterisation there, which I'm sure Tolkien never intended but set up nicely nonetheless.

That you can be a Wuthering Heights fan and (1) enjoy it for the shitshow it is, (2) purely because it's a shitshow, (3) without being a bad person or an abuse apologist, and (4) without being a silly, dumb girl who romanticizes Heathcliff.

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