[ SECRET POST #1640 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #1640 ⌋


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


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02.
[SPN]


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03.
(The Jesus and Mary Chain)


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04.
[Evangelion]


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05.
[Dragon Age 2]


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06.
[Hetalia]


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07.
(The Last Shadow Puppets)


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08.
[Harry Potter, Justice League International]


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09.
[Fairly Odd Parents Movie]


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10.
[Psych]


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11.
[Merlin]


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12.
(Malcolm in the Middle)


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13.
[Making Fiends]


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14.
[Lackadaisy]


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15.
[Twilight]


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16.
[Psychoville]


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17.
[Code Geass]


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18.
[Game of Thrones/ASOIAF]


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19.
[Transformers: Prime]


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20.
[Homestuck]


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21.
[Naruto]


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22.
[Game of Thrones]


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23.
[X-Men]


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24.
[Homestuck]


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25.
[Final Fantasy]


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26.
[Mythbusters]


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27.
[Sanctuary]


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28.
(Battlestar Galactica)


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29.
[Land of the Lost (nineteen-nineties version)]


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30.
[Fraiser]


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31.
[Drew Carey Show]


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32.
[X-Men: First Class]


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33.
[Darren Criss/Freelance Whales/Shoot the Freak]


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34.
[Puella Magi Madoka magica, The Spoony experiment]


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35.
[Misfits]


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36.
[Hellsing]


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37.
[Madoka magica and Mahou Sentai Magiranger]


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38.
[Alpha Protocol]


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39.
[Glee]


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40.
[Mother/Earthbound Zero]


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41.
[Beastly]


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42.
[Prototype/Infamous]


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43.
[Ookiku Furikabutte]


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44.
[Hikaru no Go]


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45.
[Homestuck]


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46.
[Azumanga Daioh]


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47.
[Thor: Sons of Asgard (Marvel comics)]




Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 48 secrets from Secret Submission Post #234.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 - not!secrets ], [ 1 - not!fandom ], [ 1 - too big ], [ 0 - repeats ]
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Am I missing something? I thought Game of Thrones took place in fantasy land, not England. What's with what seems like the exclusion of any place other than England in this thread?

[(Anonymous)]

Yes, it takes place in fantasy land, but GRRM has started that he based the books on the Wars of the Roses, and, to a lesser extent, the Jacobite Rebellions. The Wall is a direct analogue to Hadrian's Wall. Finally, the secret maker used the phrase "up north", which is so tied with the English north that it has become a stereotype.

[(Anonymous)]

Not to mention things like the Starks holding on to the old religion which has been abandoned for one with more links to the throne in the south.

[(Anonymous)]

Huh. I hardly know anything of English history, so I'm off to Wikipedia. Thanks for the context.

[(Anonymous)]

Lannister/Lancaster vrs. Stark/York. All very subtle.

[(Anonymous)]

So, Plantagenets = Targeryans?

[(Anonymous)]

You are missing something: knowledge of context. It is the same as Tolkien's Shire; it might be a place in a fantasy world, but everything about the Shires comes from the English shires.

[(Anonymous)]

Okay, that makes a lot more sense. Thanks.

[(Anonymous)]

No problem. I think that this only really applies to the north as in the area around Winterfell; I would not say King's Landing is a direct reference to London, as the climate is obviously different, let alone things like the Dothraki.

[(Anonymous)]

DA

Yeah, I thought King's Landing looked more like southern France/Italy.

[(Anonymous)]

That was what I thought - interestingly, that also plays into the English literary trope of Italy being full of scheming courtiers.

[(Anonymous)]

The phrasing that the secret poster used ('up north') tends to refer specifically to the north of England (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_England - Nickname(s): Up North, and also http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/OopNorth [which I have never understood, since I do not pronounce 'up' as 'oop', I pronounce 'up' like it's spelt whereas southerns pronounce it 'ahp' (:P), but anyway]).

Plus there was obviously a deliberate decision on the part of the people who make Game of Thrones to have the Starks and their bannermen speak with 'northern' English accents (and not just because Sean Bean is playing Ned).

[(Anonymous)]

Sean Bean: the Platonic Ideal of a Northerner.

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