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fandomsecrets2012-07-04 06:22 pm
case) wrote in fandomsecrets2012-07-04 06:22 pm
[ SECRET POST #2010 ]
⌈ Secret Post #2010 ⌋
Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.
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[Panic! at the Disco/One Direction]
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[Mad Men]
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[My Princess]
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[Questionable Content]
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[NCIS]
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[Okami]
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[la brigade chimérique]
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[Ally McBeal]
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[SS Omega]
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[Final Fantasy XIII]
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[A Song of Ice and Fire]
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[Heroes]
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[Salma Hayek and Cote De Pablo]
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[True Love, "Holly's Class"]
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[Star Trek TNG]
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[Final Fantasy VII Crisis Core]
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[Katawa Shoujo]
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[US Women's Gymnastics]
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[Legend of Korra]
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Notes:
Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 042 secrets from Secret Submission Post #287.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ], [ 1 2 - posted twice ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.
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(Anonymous) 2012-07-05 01:35 am (UTC)(link)I think the game would have earned more respect without them, and if what OP's secret about the fandom is true, it would have attracted better fans too.
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(Anonymous) 2012-07-05 02:07 am (UTC)(link)Going to try to be vague here, but on one path, the characters had sex when they were in a really bad place emotionally. It was depressing and a little worrying and it was supposed to be- one of them just wanted to feel something, and the other wanted to be connected in whatever way they could get. It was a really intense, desperate, awful moment, and I don't know if there would have been a better way than bad-idea-sex to show that. The sex scene on that path in the good end shows that they understand each other better and they can be close without having to go back to that dark place again. In another path, the main character can cheat on his girlfriend with another girl... and the way the relationship's been going, it's almost understandable if he does. The other girl's expression during the sex scene is soul-crushing if you've got any sympathy for her at all, and it shows better than anything that this really wasn't the answer and doesn't make anything better, not for the main character, and definitely not for the other girl. On yet another path, a character doesn't like the way they assume their partner sees them, so they initiate sex in order to prove in a very definite way that they're the kind of person who can. It's a huge shift, shocking, and awkward as fuck, but it's what that person wanted, and actually seeing it did more to show what they were trying to do. And on a lighter note, to finish it off, one of one character's sex scenes demonstrates a lot about their personality... through really funny bad sex.
Again, it was not always done well, and I think the writing could have been tightened up a lot even in the scenes that worked for me. But I think sex did have a purpose here, and it felt more honest than many "young people falling in love and figuring things out" stories that don't really deal with sex at all.
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(Anonymous) 2012-07-05 02:58 am (UTC)(link)I see! I'm glad they weren't just tacked on. I was going by the reactions I've seen in various places to the game.
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(Anonymous) 2012-07-05 08:20 am (UTC)(link)I will never, ever get over the scene in the shed. I'm so glad my partner doesn't have a penis, because if we ever tried to have sex and it was even a little bit similar, I would die laughing and never fuck again.
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(Anonymous) 2012-07-05 02:17 am (UTC)(link)and honestly, part of what was so refreshing about the game's attitude towards disability is that disabled people are JUST LIKE EVERYONE ELSE, and part of that is that they have sex just like everyone else.
as a disabled person it's actually nice to have some form of media out there that treats sex with a disability as no big deal
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(Anonymous) 2012-07-05 03:00 am (UTC)(link)I've been going by the reactions I've seen on other sites, and many people were put off by the idea that maybe the sex was just playing up fetishes and by the vehemence of the fanbase itself.
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(Anonymous) 2012-07-05 05:40 pm (UTC)(link)A lot of mainstream game review sites compared the sex scenes to ones you'd find in a novel or R-rated movie- there to advance the story and characters, not titillate.
it helps that they did actual research and talked to disabled people and there were a few women on the dev team.
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THIS GAME WAS BORN ON 4CHAN.
I'm surprised there weren't more porn scenes. But of course there was gonna be fucking, come on!
Though really, it's not "fucking" so much as "sex."