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⌈ Secret Post #6993 ⌋

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[OP warned for partial nudity]

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02. [SPOILERS for Call the Midwife]

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03. [WARNING for discussion of murder, pedophilia]

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04. [WARNING for discussion of JKR/HP/transphobia]

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05. [WARNING for discussion of JKR/HP/transphobia]

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06. [WARNING for discussion of racism]

[Hudson Williams / Heated Rivalry]

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... but you wouldn't mind if someone else made them for you! As always, including the fandom and full character names is a big help, and while I'm definitely not the world's greatest expert at secret design, I'll try my best. Please note that long comment secrets can be difficult to make with a good end result. Most of the time, I'll give it a shot but might not be able to make secrets where the text is so lengthy that I can't fit it into the limited space.

I'm trying something new with the comment secret thread and extending the deadline to comment until Monday's post goes up. I'll monitor this thread until then, and hope the extra day will be more helpful for everyone.

Cheers,

a secret maker

P.S. Please don't worry if you've submitted a secret and it hasn't been posted yet. I usually post these threads before running out of the previous batch of secrets to get a head start on the next batch.

If you think that someone else's secret is too long or not fandom, don't sweat it. I can handle these issues myself if there's a problem and would prefer that random anons don't police the thread on my behalf, even with the best of intentions.

Cheers,

a secret maker

<3 You rock!

There's a recc'er who has been going for over 20 years, posting a multi-fandom rec list every month. I absolutely love their taste, we share most fandoms, the ones we don't they tend to convince me to join - they are the Gardner Dozois of fanfic for me.

But last month most of the entries on the rec list were for Heated Rivalry. I'm glad they've found a new fandom, and they owe me NOTHING, but still...

I prefer games with an endless mode, or at least a newgame+.

If the game runs its length and just... ends, I always end up putting off finishing it.

Not a Secret: Grew up with Harry Potter and then... Outgrew it. Never finished the final book because I just thought "there's fic better than this" after half a chapter. Connections to fandom fizzled out. Haven't thought about HP in literal decades.

Secret: All the HP secrets here have sent me down a nostalgic fanfic rabbit hole.
Bonus Secret: still have no idea what the canon ending is; also have no interest in JKR as a person/her views.

Don't you realize that every time you click on an HP fic, a trans person's existence is threatened?

/s

Your nostalgic rabbit holes make me smile, OP. I'm happy you've been able to reconnect with something that brings you joy. There's little enough of that in the world today.

So you are not a transphobe, you just indulge in activities which support transphobia. There is a word for that. Guess what it is.

After not playing Genshin for 3 months I attempted this months imaginarium theater. And it reminded me why I quit in the first place.

FFS the developers took a perfectly good game an ruined it with AI generated plot and DPS check after DPS check, all to force f2p to spend on weapons and cons.

Granted, it might be very bad luck that I don't have Durin, Albedo, Lyney, Dahlia, Illuga (only guys I am missing + Xiao and Ifa) but I also felt very "you who only collect male characters shall not pass" about this months IT. And Genshin meta generally since IDK 2.x

so I restarted Baldur's Gate 3 recently after playing it some years ago but never finishing

and the way that companions and romances are written is hugely off-putting to me. I HATE that the path to a relationship has to be 'hook up/fuck them in Act 1 BEFORE any actual backstory or character building happens, THEN you actually date or get to know them in Act 2'.

it's so incredibly awkward I cannot stand it. I'm fine with SOME characters doing this as part of character writing (that makes sense! different people place different value or importance on fucking, sex should be nbd to some people and a huge thing for others), but to have LITERALLY EVERY COMPANION, people who are SUPPOSEDLY from different backgrounds and cultures (including literal space aliens) find my extremely milquetoast character hugely fuckable within like days of meeting them is just a total immersion breaker.

I actually think worse of people who like this as a roleplaying game or think the character writing is good.

That's kind of why I never play any romance other than Astarion, boring as it may be. Not because I'm such a huge Astarion stan but because he actually has a reason for doing the "sex first, emotions later" thing that makes sense based on his story background and isn't actially head over heels with your rando PC after barely knowing them.
I guess a point could be made that it's maybe the wormlink that makes everyone have unreasonably heightened emotions towards your character? But meh.

I actually did consider the wormlink thing when I first played it but if that's the case, it shouldn't override their past—like if the characters had been all 'I've genuinely never done this before and this feels strange but I can't help feeling that I want to fuck you', and THEN it was revealed as a weird worm side effect, and then characters had to deal with the fallout, that would have been interesting to me! However that is not what happens, lol.

I did also appreciate Astarion isn't instantly in love with you, just as a general interpretation thing I do prefer it when vampires aren't sexy. That isn't saying his writing was bad in this particular regard, just that I did go 'what the heck, even the VAMPIRE somehow gets horny ALSO, come on' at the game. Genuinely I think the VtM style 'you can't sex any more but feeding feels way better than sex for both the vampire and the food' would've been a much more interesting interpretation and potentially leading to better character scenes than... what is in the game.

Anybody remember the black glitter spiderweb dress Olga wears in Singin' in the Rain? In my own personal headcanon that's the outfit Maleficent would have worn if she'd been invited to the party. (animated!Maleficent, not Angelina.)

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