fandomsecrets | [ SECRET POST #1801 ]

⌈ Secret Post #1801 ⌋

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

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[Venture Brothers]

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[Batman]

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04.

[It's Not My fault I'm Not Popular]

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[Ray Force]

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[The Future I Whisper to You/Stargate Atlantis]

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[Terry Pratchett's Going Postal]

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[Code Geass]

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[Gokusen]

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[Code Geass]

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[Alison Brie/How I Met Your Mother]

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[The Vampire Diaries]

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[Final Fantasy X]

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[Supernatural]

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[Community]

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[Martin Solveig]

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[Clocktower series]

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[Winnie the Pooh]

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[Supernatural]

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[Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers]

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[The Sing-Off]

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[Oglaf]

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[Strangers with Candy]

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[Supernatural]

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[The Lion King]

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[S-CRY-ed]

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[Bones]

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[Fate/Zero]

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[A Christmas Carol]

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[Sequential Art]

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[ZUN/Jun'ya Ota]

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[Diablo 2]

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[Friends]

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[Winter Soldier #1]

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[Supernatural, Florence + the Machine]

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[Victorious]

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[Easy A]

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[The Vampire Diaries]

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[The Vampire Diaries]

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[Holly Black, Spiderwick Chronicles]

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[Monkey Island]

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[The Vampire Diaries]

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[Kurokami/Black God]

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[Eden of the East]

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I don't like Holly Black (various reasons I've forgotten because it's been so long since I read Tithe), but this is probably a good moment for you to learn to seperate books from their authors, OP.

This is just a general rule, because there are some authors whose creepy creepy messages are interlaced in their writing (OSC I'm looking at you), but so many good books have been written by horrible people. In the end, if you like the story, and if it has something meaningful to say to you, then you should take it as is and ignore the author altogether.

Unless they're really nice. Then it's awesome.

Aaaaaaa, OSC. :( I've read some of his books like ten times but bleargh.

A+ to this post overall. Sometimes I think even college lit courses point people too far in the direction of scrutinizing the author to understand the work. I dig T.S. Eliot's poetry, but I slogged through a six-hundred-page biography of the guy in a class on Yeats & Eliot and wow was he an enormous douchebag.

When trying to separate authors from their work I just think "Welp, I do this all right when it's ignoring gossipy checkstand magazines about more visible celebrities. Same principle."

Oh god OSC ;____; I used to re-read Ender's Shadow incessantly as a kid and akls;afj; finding out what a ridiculous asshole he is (and finally being old enough when Ender in Exile came out to be skeeved as hell by the weird sexism in that book) pretty much destroyed my childhood.

Edited 2011-12-09 12:37 (UTC)

I sympathize. I can't read Card's work anymore, either.

I feel the same way about CS Lewis, too. Use to love Narnia as a kid, but now that I'm a) no longer a Christian and b) can recognize all the Biblical stuff, I can't read it anymore because I feel like I'm just reading one gigantic Bible allegory and getting preached at. Plus all the racism.

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