[ SECRET POST #2005 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2005 ⌋

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

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08. http://i.imgur.com/H1X1Z.gif
[linked because uh not sure if this is porn or not; live action]


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09. http://i.imgur.com/pNcu1.jpg
[porn of the drawn variety - Tintin]


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11. [SPOILER WARNING for Hourou Musuko]



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12. [SPOILER WARNING for Prometheus]



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13. [SPOILER WARNING for Homestuck]



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14. [SPOILER WARNING for Avengers]



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15. [SPOILER WARNING for Merlin]



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17. [WARNING for ... pretty sure this has something to do with rape]



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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 00 pages, 000 secrets from Secret Submission Post #286.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 1 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 1 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[fscom]

11. [SPOILER WARNING for Hourou Musuko]
http://i49.tinypic.com/357km1k.png

[(Anonymous)]

I hate it when works do that. I hope this one doesn't go this way too.

[cloud_riven]

If that happens, I'd like to assist you in upending some furniture and shredding any upholstery that may be in the vicinity.

Although I don't think that's the direction it's headed anyways, I think I would be glad if it turns out that Takatsuki is a boy that is alright with femininity. Or identifies as both or whatever since it's not always so binary. I totally doubt any variety of genderqueer is gonna pop up in that manga though haha :(

[omorka]

Seconding the "it would be awesome if this went the genderqueer route," but yeah, probably not going to happen. It almost never does (manga or otherwise) except as camp. And you know, I'm OK with camp, but non-campy genderqueer stories can show up any time now . . .

Then again, I'm only peripherally familiar with this particular manga so maybe I should just pay more attention.

[ooh_mrdarcy]

Oh no :( I haven't paid much attention to this series for a while now.

I have one friend who used to be a tomboy, but then began to dress up extremely feminine in their teens. And then when they became an adult they became FtM. Turns out, by dressing up feminine he was trying to cope with his situation and was over-compensating, big time. He also wanted to prove to himself that just because he dressed like a real lady, it didn't make him any less of a man.
/csb

Personally, I don't think Takatsuki will "change" his mind just like that, but we'll see. So far the author has been very sensitive about all kinds of issues dealing with one's sexuality. I have high hopes.

[(Anonymous)]

As someone already said, I really hope it's not he is discovering that he can be femme AND a guy. But I don't blame you for freaking out though, especially there are so, so, so few trans* men in manga.

I mean, I want to have faith in Shimura, but at the same time, she did do the Switch-and-Bait Lesbian with two of her characters in Aoi Hana (although one is questionable and very well be bi).

[(Anonymous)]

This sort or reminds me of the huge *No, Merida is gay!* discussions lately. Why is every tomboy automatically gay? And why is every feminine character automatically straight? Why does being a girl and wanting to wanting to be into sports and not chase after boys make you gay, either?! Bahhhhh, stereotypes.

[(Anonymous)]

This is about gender, not sexual orientation.

[(Anonymous)]

And this is why I stopped reading it a long time ago. I don't WANT it to go in that direction but I can't shake the suspicion that it will, then be some kind of 'bittersweet' ending where they grow up into who they 'should' be as an adult man and woman and look on the fact that they wanted to be otherwise as children as a childish thing or a phase.

[(Anonymous)]

Guys, I think everyone is getting a little ahead of themselves and getting pissed at Shimura Takako before this storyline is even resolved. We don't know yet how Takatsuki will end up. It is possible that he/she may find happiness in being female, it's possible that this is just a phase/experimentation with feminine presentation, or maybe he/she will discover that it's ok to be a femme guy if that's how he/she identifies... and there's also the genderqueer/whatever-non-binary-idendity option. But lately I just see so many people DESPERATE and ANGRY about the possibility of Takatsuki actually being OKAY with being a girl. I know trans*men are pretty underrepresented in media, but if that's not the story that the author intends to tell, I think we all ought to read into and accept the recent developments, instead of freaking out and questioning the quality of the work because things didn't go as you hoped. This is a possible development, it's something that does happen in real life, and doesn't mean anyone Shimura Takako is "backing out" of anything.

so yeah, TLDR; calm your tits.

[(Anonymous)]

Word. Geez, I hate gender issues and this manga has been getting my nerves or maybe its the whole fandom. Maybe if this took place when they were a little bit older I could follow the characters a lot more. I think this manga is about coming to find who you really are, not about "Oh, I want to be this one thing and that's all this story is going to be about!"

[(Anonymous)]

She did the fake lesbian shit TWICE in Aoi Hana. I honestly wouldn't be surprised about a TG girl fake out in Wandering Son.