[ SECRET POST #7091 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #7091 ⌋

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


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[The Young Ones (1980s britcom)]




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02. [WARNING for discussion of fatphobia/body image issues/eating disorders]




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03. [WARNING for discussion of abuse]

[Star Wars]



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04. [WARNING for discussion of sexual harassment]




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05. [WARNING for discussion of JKR/transphobia]




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06. [WARNING for discussion of JKR/transphobia]




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07. [WARNING for discussion of racism, cultural appropriation]


























Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 00 pages, 00 secrets from Secret Submission Post #1012.
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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01. https://cdn.imgtree.co/images/yeLmUQJs.png
[The Young Ones (1980s britcom)]

Transcript by OP

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I ship Rick and Vyvyan

[tabaqui]

Holy crap, a Young Ones secret!! Awesome.
I....can see it. :D

[(Anonymous)]

I can't say I've ever thought about shipping with this show before, but... yeah, I think I get it.

[greghousesgf]

LOL

[(Anonymous)]

Never really thought about this but was immediately like yes, valid, lol

[(Anonymous)]

Adding myself to the chorus of: valid af!!

[sabotabby]

I remember thinking that after a rewatch and hitting the AO3 tag and yeah, a lot of people also thought that.

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02. [WARNING for discussion of fatphobia/body image issues/eating disorders]
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Transcript by OP

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I tried to go back and rewatch Top Model for the laughs and nostalgia but damn....the faphobia was OUTRAGEOUS. I literally could not deal. That shit is poison to the brain and self esteem

[(Anonymous)]

Shit, and that's just the tip of the iceberg. Even with my poor memory of it, I'm pretty sure there's a good helping of racism (and/or colorism) and ableism at the very least. Plus, you know, the general sabotage and undercutting and arguable emotional abuse.

I can't believe I watched multiple seasons of that show.

[(Anonymous)]

Oh yeah that show was messed up. I used to watch it during my peak ED days for "thinspiration."

[(Anonymous)]

What really disturbed me as an adult was the ways the show turned sexual assault and/or sexual harassment into drama, mostly in which the women were given little to no sympathy.

Cycle 1 Adrianne is groped by a stranger while doing a Go-See and no one intervenes

Cycle 2 Shandi was drunk and the show filmed her rape, and only decided to cut most of it out due to fears of the FCC fining them after the Janet Jackson/Justin Timberlake Superbowl performance. The show played the whole thing out as Shandi being a reckless slut who cheated on her boyfriend.

Cycle 4 Keenyah was being sexually harassed and groped by a creepy male model who had been pursuing her even after she told him she wasn't interested and she had a boyfriend. When she spoke up, she was blamed for being unprofessional.

Uuugh I won't list all the disturbing shit that went down on the show because it upsets me.

And I hate that Ken Mok excuses it as "we're a documentary crew, we film without intervention". Like, shut the fuck up!! ANTM is a cheap fucking entertainment crew who can create excitement and drama without having to exploit these eager (and mostly from poor backgrounds) young women ANTM are responsible for. The safety of their contestants should have been their number 1 priority, but instead ANTM producers seemed delighted when the women were in danger.

ANTM was a comfort show I'd watch on repeat. One where I didn't take it too seriously and mostly enjoyed all the camp, overexaggerated drama, and pretty photos and runway shows. But after some time of not watching the show and being in my 30s when I tried to rewatch, I was horrified and really sad to see how these eager young women were all exploited and harmed.

But on the positive side, I was so grateful to see the same exploited young women as full grown adults being interviewed about their experiences, and they were honest. I'm especially so parasocially proud of Lisa D'Amato and Angelea Preston for continually speaking up against the show's exploitation of the contestantants. They both were done so dirty by the show, and they have created ways for former contestants to have a voice because the showrunners for ANTM sure do love pretending to know nothing. Tyra especially being all "I wasn't there for that, I had no idea." Despite footage of her back in the 2000s proudly saying she's an executive producer and she's in the editing room, editing all the footage and talking about what she likes and doesn't like.

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03. [WARNING for discussion of abuse]
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Transcript by OP

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Through tumblr, I discovered an Luke/Mara fanfic from the late nineties called As simple and as complicated as all that. It was posted on Fanfix (you can still find it on archive.org).
I read it by curiosity and it's weird: the gender politics are all over the place and Mara is a tsundere.
I wish I could find what people thougth of it at the time because apparently it was one of the first long nc-17 fic for that pairing and it tried to deal with subjects like abortion/abuse.
Does anyone remember it? Was it popular? Or just controversial?

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04. [WARNING for discussion of sexual harassment]
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Transcript by OP

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I wish I knew how to find fandom friends to talk about NSFW stuff with. I'm already too socially awkward to make fandom friends in general, but finding people I can talk about scenarios, kinks, and "damn, X is hot" when I'm not sexually open in general feels impossible. It's just hard to gauge when it's appropriate to bring this up. I've been sexually harassed and fetishmined in online spaces before, and I don't want to misread social cues and unknowingly do that to someone else.

So I just... keep my dirty thoughts to myself, even the vanilla ones.

S!B: I'm too old to struggle with social interactions like this. People also usually say "it's valid that you're reserved about sex" but I'm personally not happy being that way and wish I could be "wild and free" like others are.

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05. [WARNING for discussion of JKR/transphobia]
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Transcript by OP

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TPTB reeeeeally scored a big one casting Lox Pratt as Draco Malfoy.

I feel like teenage girls are gonna go from "ugh Harry Potter is lame" to "OMGWTFBBQ" within 2-3 episodes. Especially since they're fleshing out Draco's character.

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06. [WARNING for discussion of JKR/transphobia]
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Transcript by OP

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I wish the anti-trans asshole on FS would stop making Harry Potter secrets.

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07. [WARNING for discussion of racism, cultural appropriation]
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Transcript by OP

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This is a blast from the past, but I keep hearing the song on the radio so I'm saying it.

When The Pussycat Dolls covered Jai Ho! (You Are My Destiny) from Slumdog Millionaire, they must have done it without ever once hearing the original. I don't know how many times the backing track says "jai ho", but they insist on singing "jay ho" and it comes across really ignorant and disrespectful.

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[(Anonymous)]

Are there any ancient (probably deleted) fics that are still stuck in your brain?

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Games thread!

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Secrets you don't want to make...

[(Anonymous)]

... 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.

Re: Secrets you don't want to make...

[(Anonymous)]

I ship Penny with Amy Farrah Fowler from Big Bang Theory