[ SECRET POST #1837 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #1837 ⌋

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

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02. [broken link]


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[Robin Of Sherwood/Michael Praed]


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[Glee]


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[We Got Married - Ga In (Brown Eyed Girls)/Jo Kwon (2AM)]


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[Buzz Lightyear of Star Command]


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09. http://i.imgur.com/8DbqS.png
[linked for nudity/kind of porny]


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[Josh Groban and Andrea Bocelli]


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[Beast Wars, Megatron]


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[Magic Mike]


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16. [repeat]


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[Harry Potter & Little House on the Prairie]


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[X-Men: First Class]


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[Death Note]


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25. [SPOILERS for something, OP did not specify]



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26. [SPOILERS for Vampire Hunter D]



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27. [SPOILERS for Christmas Doctor Who and New Year's Sherlock]



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28. [TRIGGER WARNING for rape]
[SPOILERS for Loveless]



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29. [TRIGGER WARNING for abuse]



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30. [TRIGGER WARNING for rape]



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31. [TRIGGER WARNING for rape, animal cruelty]



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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 00 pages, 000 secrets from Secret Submission Post #262.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 1 - broken links ], [ 1 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 1 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[fscom.livejournal.com]

23. http://o.imgbox.com/aarA6CmU.png

[violence4.livejournal.com]

I agree. I'm so sorry about your sister, OP.

[micromyni.livejournal.com]

Oh, OP. I'm so sorry. Maybe Hollywood doesn't want to go through the expense of it, maybe the sight and feel of someone dying is unreproducible. If you really want to see it, chances are Hollywood will give it a shot one of these days. This reminds me of that one House episode.
"I just want to die with a little dignity."
"There's no such thing! Our bodies break down, sometimes when we're 90, sometimes before we're even born, but it always happens and there's never any dignity in it! I don't care if you can walk, see, wipe your own ass... it's always ugly, always! You can live with dignity; you can't die with it!"

[(Anonymous)]

As someone who has seen many, many people die, sometimes over prolonged periods of time, I agree with you 100%.

[(Anonymous)]

I will amend that, sometimes people do go fairly peacefully, but it's not when they look all healthy as they do in the movies. It's usually when the body has given up after being afflicted with illness of some kind.

[childings.livejournal.com]

First of all, I'm so sorry to hear about your sister, that sounds so horrible and traumatic.

Not to mention that a lot of people die quickly and without warning in really violent ways. Try living with someone who has chronic asthma, trust me, it's not fun wondering when you're going to randomly wake up next to someone rasping for air and you only have seconds to call 911 and even then they probably won't get there in time to do anything, just hope the rescue inhaler does its job

I think I have seen some deaths in films that were more like a real life death (though it seems to happen more in tv for some reason) but I just can't think of one right off hand. I know I've seen it happen before. I hate long drawn-out sanitized death scenes in movies, that's an old cliché that needs to die

[(Anonymous)]

Hollywood showing something happening in a way that isn't true to reality? What a shock!

[graziaplena.livejournal.com]

I just wanted to say that I watched my mother die from cancer in November (I was with her when she passed away), and it happened just as you described. I'm so, so sorry that you had to go through that, too.

The only movie I can think of that shows how horrifying and dehumanizing death is is Hunger with Michael Fassbender. The last 20 minutes are nothing but watching him slowly die of starvation. It hit too close to home and I'm sorry I watched it so soon after my mother's death.

[(Anonymous)]

I think they don't represent death accurately on purpose. They're looking to gain audiences and keep them. They're not going to do that with an accurate portrayal of death when it can be one of the most horrifying and traumatic things a person can witness.

I'm sorry, OP. If it were different, maybe people would understand it better. Or maybe it would become wank fodder for some new branch of guro fans. Who knows.

[(Anonymous)]

Does guro look realistic to you? I doubt most guro fans are looking for realistic deaths, either.

[(Anonymous)]

That's exactly why you won't see it. And if you do it, that thing will either do poorly, or become popular with a crowd that will make you angrier then hollywood death ever would.

The dude that'd jerk off to your description is the one who'd make that trend continue.

[(Anonymous)]

As someone who also watched someone they loved die from cancer, no. No, I don't want this portrayed in movies. It sounds bitter and selfish, and I wouldn't wish that on anyone. I get wanting something familiar, but can you imagine how that would be for people who haven't experienced that loss? To watch a character they love go through that horrible deterioration?

This is one thing I'm glad Hollywood doesn't do realistic.

[(Anonymous)]

While I can understand your feelings, personally I wish there had been something, anything, that had prepared me for what I was about to experience. I don't see why art should shy away from this; at its noblest, art generally has the goal of helping us to navigate and process our lives, and, to me, this seems like an area that could use some attention in modern society.

[(Anonymous)]

"I get wanting something familiar, but can you imagine how that would be for people who haven't experienced that loss? To watch a character they love go through that horrible deterioration?"

Are you kidding me? First world problems, much?

Anyway, OP... I don't have much of an opinion on death scenes, but I'm so sorry for your loss.

[(Anonymous)]

How is that a first world problem?

PRETTY DARN SURE that those in underdeveloped areas would also not want to see slow, drawn-out, painful but realistic depictions of death happen to anyone, fictional or real.

Also PRETTY DARN SURE that first world citizens can die horribly agonizing deaths to watch.

You looking for something to whine "wealthy white people have NO CLUE" about or just ignorant?

[(Anonymous)]

I don't watch movies to be reminded of my suffering. I watch it to be entertained, and to temporarily forget it.

Seriously, are you masochistic?

[(Anonymous)]

That's uncalled for. :/ That's fine for you, but the fact that someone else prefers things to be more realistic doesn't make them weird or masochistic.

I imagine most of the people who really want escapism avoid serieses that handle any death at all.

[checkerblob.livejournal.com]

Not everyone enjoys fiction for the same reason you do. For you, it's an escape but maybe that's not how it is for the OP. Fiction is also used by both creators and viewers to tackle issues, and often seeing issues that you deal with portrayed on tv or in movies can help. For me, I think that seeing something that was very hard for me portrayed in a movie as romantic and pretty would be more hurtful than seeing it portrayed realistically. That might not make sense to you, and that's fine, you're entitled to enjoy movies for whatever reason you want, but so is the OP. That doesn't make her a masochist at all.

[(Anonymous)]

You know, in The Descendants when they'd show the character in the coma in her hospital room, it was really not pretty at all. It seemed realistic and was kind of unnerving. I don't know if that's what you're looking for, though.

[(Anonymous)]

If you're willing to take a metaphor, David Cronenberg's remake of The Fly was meant to be exactly this. Not so much its sequel, though.

I've never seen a straight take on terminal illness, however. Sorry.

[streetcake.livejournal.com]

I've had the luck to have not seen someone die as of yet, but I felt this way too for years. I can't really take many fictional deaths seriously when they try to make it seem so pretty and dignified. It almost seems disrespectful.

I'm so sorry for your loss, OP.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm so sorry about your sister. I don't know the source material in your secret, but I lost my mother in a similar way (ovarian cancer that eventually spread to her brain, death from aspirating pneumonia), and I know what you mean. I can understand why writers don't write it that way, though. Popular media plays to our fantasies, and apart from a miraculous recovery, I can't think of anything I'd rather have had than a meaningful goodbye in which I was sure she even knew who she was, let alone me. We all process death differently, and personally I'm glad it's usually portrayed so unrealistically (it'd be way too triggering for me otherwise), though I completely get why you feel the opposite.

[(Anonymous)]

I witnessed the death of a loved one recently due to cancer, and while I can't even imagine how devestating it would be to lose a sibling I can sort of see where you're coming from. It sounds silly but I've always been somewhat jealous of characters that had romantic deaths.

My condolences, OP.

[checkerblob.livejournal.com]

I'm so sorry about your sister. I've never seen someone die, but I can understand the desire for a more realistic portrayal.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm very sorry about your sister, anon.

On one hand, I see your point. Death in movies and television isn't realistic. Everyone gets to say their final poignant speech, and mostly pass away in their sleep (peacefully) or in the arms of their loved ones (also peacefully) or off-screen.

But on the other hand, I don't know if I want to see realistic death in movies and television.

I watched my brother die a little over a year ago from colon cancer (he was only 35). His last weeks were...horrible. He was jaundiced because the cancer had invaded and destroyed his liver, his thoughts were fuzzy and disjointed because his liver was failing and fast and therefore couldn't filter out the toxins from his blood. He died alone in hospice at 3am without anyone who loved him there to be with him (we had no idea he would die so fast - hospice did call us, but by the time we drove the ten minutes it took to get there, he was gone), and his last words were "My butt hurts" (so much for the final poignant speech). I mean...god. To go from such a loving, caring father, son, brother, husband to someone who couldn't remember his own kids when they came to visit him, who thought that his wife was his first girlfriend, who couldn't even go to the bathroom by himself anymore, in just TWO MONTHS...I don't know if I am physically capable of watching that on television.