[ SECRET POST #1549 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #1549 ⌋

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

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[Salad Time Soldiers, Sera Myu]


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[Michael Flatley/Lord of the Dance]


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[loco-roco]


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[xxxHOLiC]


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[Hawaii Five-0]


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[Rango]


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[Matched]


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[Dune]


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[Bleach]


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[The Beatles, Madonna]


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[Penny Arcade]


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[Lee Pace and Matt Bomer]


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[Marriage Reg (with Larry David, Madonna, and Ricky Gervais)]


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[Bollywood]


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[Charmed]


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[shemusic]


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[Pokemon]


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[Thunderbirds]


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[Raising Hope]


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[Nana to Kaoru]


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[Team Fortress 2]


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[SPN]


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[This is England]


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[Rome, Dissidia: Final Fantasy]


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(Vampire Weekend/Arrested Development)


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[Trailer Park Boys and Perfect Strangers]


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[4chan]


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[Tangled]


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[Tsubasa Chronicle]


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[Kyo Kara Maoh!]


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[The Spoony Experiment]


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 052 secrets from Secret Submission Post #221.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ], [ 1 - take it to comments ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[fscom.livejournal.com]

09. http://i51.tinypic.com/33yp8ue.jpg
[Matched]

[(Anonymous)]

even it doesn't get a big fandom, it should. the concept was a billion times better than 99% of all ~popular ya lit~.*

* then again, i could see this explaining why it may not get a big fandom.

[(Anonymous)]

Am I the only one who thinks that a publishing company who wanted to promote a YA or urban fantasy book would be pretty smart to post things on fandomsecrets, start a TVTropes page, etc? I'm not saying this is viral. I'm just saying that if I were publishing this book it's what I'd do.

[(Anonymous)]

I've thought so too (though the fandomsecrets part hadn't occured to me).

[(Anonymous)]

I read this and I wanted to like it, but the whole time I kept thinking "what do they do for the gay people?" and then it looked like there weren't any gay people and I kept reading to find out why there WEREN'T any gay people but the book never told me. At first I thought the main character might be interesting, but I really couldn't get into her choice between the two love interests and there didn't seem to be much more to her. So I was pretty much forcing my way through the book, thinking the absence of gay people was some clue to the dystopia in the book being... well, dystopian, and wanting to know what happened to the gay people, but there was never any mention of that in the book.

And then I looked it up online and found out most of the author's other books were written for the Mormon church. And that was how I learned what happened to the gay people.

[citrusy-fun.livejournal.com]

ugh.

Thank you for this, I will never even try to bother looking up the book to read.

[(Anonymous)]

oi, what's with all thes Mormon book authors these days?

[skippity-doo.livejournal.com]

Oh, that makes me so sad, because I kind of enjoyed it, in a brain-switched-off sort of way.

The Giver still did it better, etc.

[tenonthedot.livejournal.com]

The Giver does everything better. It's just... how it is.

[(Anonymous)]

And then I looked it up online and found out most of the author's other books were written for the Mormon church. And that was how I learned what happened to the gay people.

Oh goddamnit. I have nothing against Mormons-- wait. I do have something against them. No Mormon should ever write a fictional book if they can't stop pushing their beliefs on everything. It's supposed to be fiction, you're supposed to think stuff up on your own. And I say this as someone who grew up among Mormons.

Yeah, this book can suck it.

[hikari87.livejournal.com]

Because heaven knows, you should NEVER express your own views, thoughts, or beliefs in any work of fiction you create, ever. You should only ever express the views of other people, anonymously complaining on the internet, since this is the only way not to offend everyone who is forced at gunpoint to read your books.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm not the anon you replied to, but I think what they're frustrated about is the pushing of views, not just expressing them. In HP, Rowling used a lot of symbolism to portray her stance on religion and the afterlife, but she gave us readers more of a vague feeling of stuff and things were more open to interpretation (i.e. Harry's 'limbo' in King's Cross.) In books like Twilight and what this book sounds like, though, the authors' ideals - religious and societal, mostly - come across as sounding more like THIS IS THE RIGHT WAY AND I AM RIGHT AND YOU SHOULD AGREE THAT I'M RIGHT. If that's where the anon's frustration was coming from, then I agree completely.

[hikari87.livejournal.com]

Well, as I said, no one is forced to read those books. Granted it's annoying when authors do that. But they still have a right to say it.

[etherealmonkey.livejournal.com]

Actually, views that are objectively wrong (e.g. Mormonism) should not be expressed and their adherents should be shamed and shunned at every juncture.

[hikari87.livejournal.com]

I'm going to go ahead and assume you are trolling here, although the Communist flag on your icon might seem to indicate you're serious. Or else this is an April Fool's post, in which case, well played.

[(Anonymous)]

Coming from someone who hasn't read the books, I don't disagree with what you're saying, but at the same time, it sounds like this is a very, very narrow story. It's this girl, choosing between two boys. Yes, there's a whole wide dystopian world out there, but that's not the story that this author wanted to tell (again, based on what I've heard. I could be very wrong). It's like complaining that there are no gay vampires in Twilight. That's not the story that struck her. Now, for whatever religious reasons that is (both authors are Mormon, so there's that), you still have to tell the story that inspires you.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm the anon complaining about the missing gay people. I don't think it's the same as in Twilight- even though none of the named characters are gay, it makes sense that a gay person could be a vampire. Gay vampires would fit into that world even if she didn't put them in there, so I'm not going to wonder about the gay vampires. It's not that I like Twilight, or think it's a great piece of literature (or a very inclusive one) but the universe itself didn't strike me as bizarrely exclusive. There could have been gay people next door for all we know.

Matched, I believe, is set in the future. The people in that world would know about queerness, and generally what dystopias do is keep the people happy, but hide that there's some huge level of control going on. Why wouldn't a dystopia be keeping its queer citizens happy as well? It worked in The Giver, because nobody had sexual or romantic feelings of any kind, but in Matched the hormones are pretty much flying and nobody seemed displeased at all that the only options were straight or nothing. (There also seemed to be no non-secret-teenage relationships that weren't due to the matching system.) If there were gay people in this world, they'd be really screwed over. So I wondered, was there some kind of genetic engineering to get rid of gayness, or was the society so heteronormative that nobody could even talk about it... both of which would be bad things, and made me look forward to the reveal of how much this place sucked. But the author didn't really even seem like she thought this was bad. The world itself was anti-gay, and it was never really explained in the text.

[(Anonymous)]

Just finished reading the book so thought I'd throw in my view on the matter.

It's pretty clearly a heteronormative society. Bet you that the people in the Society don't even know that there are other options than straight. The Society has them geared up for straight and straight only. Why? Because they care largely about genetics and breeding stock.

Hard to genetically manipulate the next generation if a match can't have kids, right?

[(Anonymous)]

Ugh, figures.

[exova.livejournal.com]

Every time I see this book in stores, the cover grabs me...but I've already read a review of it and from what I understand, the love triangle is the only plot. So, no thank you.

It makes me sad. Hush, Hush had a misleadingly interesting cover, too.

Sorry, this was only marginally related to your secret. If you'd enjoy a crazy fandom, I hope you get one.

[mythc-writer.livejournal.com]

I had the same reaction to this book.

[hikari87.livejournal.com]

What's it about?

[lychii.livejournal.com]

There are two comms already! They are ontd_matched and matched_trilogy. I can see this series attracting some (a lot?) of Hunger Games fans down the road. :/