[ SECRET POST #1485 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #1485 ⌋

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

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[image possibly triggery for self-injury]


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Notes:

Friending meme is still going!

Secrets Left to Post: 06 pages, 134 secrets from Secret Submission Post #212.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 1 - too big ], [ 1 and again 2 - repeat ], [ 1 - what ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[fscom.livejournal.com]

23. http://i55.tinypic.com/2hs2dqp.jpg

[resounding-echo.livejournal.com]

I'd really like to see an adaption of Beauty and the Beast where Beauty isn't much of a conventional beauty at all. It's a shame this movie version decided not to go the way of the book.

[fictionalbf.livejournal.com]

the book

That wouldn't happen to be Beauty, by Robin McKinley, would it? Because I haven't read it personally, but a friend of mine loves it to bits and recommended it to me based on the fact that the heroine is considered quite ugly by her society.

[fictionalbf.livejournal.com]

Oh, nvm, I just read the rest of the comments and figured out it's about Beastly. That'll teach me to comment before finding out what the secret's about.

[wldcatsprstr-14.livejournal.com]

I'm really not a fan of the "good guys are beautiful; bad guy are ugly" trope.

I feel like a villain is more dangerous if he or she is appealing in every way. And, to be quite honest, looks matter. They're the first thing you see about a person and people make snap judgments based on them. A guy who's all scraggly and scarred and hunched over and looks like he's two seconds away from shanking you really isn't gonna incite feelings of trust. Someone who you're attracted to and who looks like your everyday nice person though...they're dangerous cuz you'll never see it coming.

[chixb4dix.livejournal.com]

I agree. But at least for female writers this seems impossible because they always end up playing the "all girls want bad guys" trope and the villains stop being scary and become boring subjects of lusting.

[(Anonymous)]

I buy into good-looking villains far easier than the ugly ones. From my experience, the better-looking a person is, the more likely they are to have villainous characteristics in real life. Not that they start off better or worse inside because of their looks, but over the course of their lives, they get away with bad deeds easier and learn to use their looks to manipulate others. It's a natural human temptation and there are, sadly, very few who can resist.

[la-petite-singe.livejournal.com]

Wha...there aren't stories like that?! What about, like, the Hunchback of Notre Dame-type stuff? There've totally got to be some. (ugh I am so ashamed already that I'm seeing that movie for NPH; what even)

[resounding-echo.livejournal.com]

NPH is the only reason to see that movie, for real.

[kallanda-lee.livejournal.com]

Which fandom is this?

[havemy-heart.livejournal.com]

It's a new movie called Beastly, from the YA book of the same name. In it, a gorgeous, popular guy gets cursed by a witch to look on the outside how he is on the inside.

[chixb4dix.livejournal.com]

What story are you talking about?

[havemy-heart.livejournal.com]

Beastly. It's a modern retelling of Beauty & the Beast.

[deavar.livejournal.com]

This. Had a similar idea for an original story. Thank you for confirming it's something people would like to see.

We all love sexy people, sure, but sometimes I much prefer faces with character in them, to be honest.

[nadinthedreamer.livejournal.com]

I don't think they made him ugly. That make up? Strange. But not scary, not ugly and definitely not hideous.

[later-tuesday.livejournal.com]

Try reading Childhood's End by Arthur C Clarke - it's not quite what you're looking for but I think it's close.

Chris Patton na na na na na

[(Anonymous)]

I know this book

The guy who did Greed in FMA read the audiobook. It was... weird.

[ceruleansan.livejournal.com]

Iunno, I think I'd be more inclined if it wasn't Vanessa Hudgeons. Not only is my impression of her more like a ... teen superstar, but she is also pretty and this is just another example of Hollywood Homely since they're trying to pass her off as the girl-not-so-pretty.

To me, this movie seems to be proving that ugly guys have it easier than ugly girls. Which is.. true IRL. orz

[lady-boheme.livejournal.com]

This secret confuses me. Stories where the 'good guys' are "ugly"?

Hunchback of Notre Dame
Cyrano De Bergerac
Shrek
Hellboy
Jane Eyre
The bazillion Beauty and the Beast adaptations that have preceded Beastly?

To name a few.

[amusesme.livejournal.com]

The only thing I know about this film is that one of the Olsen twins is in it WHAAAAT WHYYYYY

[(Anonymous)]

You have real life for that.

[dryadgurrl.livejournal.com]

I suggest the Uglies series (Uglies/Pretties/Specials) by Scott Westerfield.

It's not as polarized or to the extreme as I think you're looking for, since the good guys are just normal looking, but the bad guys are extra-speshul-super-pretty

[(Anonymous)]

I completely agree with you. I like pretty people as much as the next person but I love seeing ugly folks and monsters get to be the heroes (and not turn pretty at the end.)

There are lots of stories out there like this. Keep searching and you'll find them.

[leaffit.livejournal.com]

That actually sounds like an awesome idea!

[checkerblob.livejournal.com]

This probably isn't what you're looking for, OP, but in most books, movies and TV shows about high school, the pretty, popular kids are usually the bad guys and the ugly, unpopular kids are usually the good guys (of course, they're very rarely truely ugly). I've never seen one of those where the protagonist was beautiful and the antagonist was ugly, unless they were going for a "nerd who is actually a jerk/creep/pervert" thing, which happens often enough in real life.