[ SECRET POST #2083 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2083 ⌋

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Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ], [ 1 2 - posted twice ].
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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

This. I would like to think I'm normally fairly discerning when it comes to mechanics, plot, and characterization, but if you're giving me certain tropes I can be a lot more forgiving.

[(Anonymous)]

There are some very legitimate problems, but there's also a lot of character-bashing and wank. :( I like discussing the problematic aspect, but at the end of the first season, there was just a lot of hate for the show that made me really sad.

Re: Rec me a book (for Kindle).

[(Anonymous)]

*er, that was supposed to be "so she wasn't allowed to have much overt slash"

/failself

[ex_paola492]

Butbutbut Back Street Boys!

I confess I wasn't a big fan back in HS, but now I will listen to them from time to time. They have some really good songs, imo.

[(Anonymous)]

+1

[arrrrgent]

I'm not that into Lost, but this is my OTP. I have a weakness for incest ships. :D Plus, Mark and Titus have AMAZING chemistry.

Re: Shitty week

[(Anonymous)]

Playing Tetris is weirdly helpful, I find. Also, I'm sure I saw a study a few years back that found playing Tetris reduced people's traumatic feelings about memories and made them more managable, although I'm sure the effect isn't limited to Tetris.

[(Anonymous)]

When I first started reading fanfic (over a decade ago), there was a lot of B7 fanfic. It wasn't my fandom, so I didn't read it, but I remember it being a big slash staple back in the day. That's assuming you like slash of course. I'm sure if you dig deep enough, you'll find some still floating around.

[(Anonymous)]

Oh me too!

[terabient]

Doppelganger sex is the best sex.

[(Anonymous)]

There's nothing wrong with YA novels. I read quite a few myself and I am FAR out of the age spectrum. Hell, even my octogenarian mother in law reads the odd one or two.

If the story is good, then that's all that matters.

[(Anonymous)]

As we all know, the eastern world only wets itself over exquisite shit.

[with-rainfall.livejournal.com]

That sucks, anon. :( Hopefully the second season is worth enduring the hate.

Re: Rec me a book (for Kindle).

[mekkio]

Vacation by Matthew Costello. One of the few books that sacred me. It reads like a horror flick. Fast and furious.

The plot is simply, the was a natural disaster and most of the plants in the world died out. Food became scarce. Most people died. Some people turned to cannibalism. (And for some reason, most of the cannibals went insane and feral.) The remaining normal people fenced off their homes and tried to carry on with their lives. The story centers around a cop and his family who hear about a camp that is guaranteed cannibal free and has actual fresh food and meat (unlike the manufactured food that most people eat now.) They pack up and go on vacation there. You know the story doesn't have an easy ending after that.

[ginainthekingsroad]

Above anon is onto something but totally off on the actual statistics. Publisher's Weekly recently reported that 55% of YA sales were by adults over 18 with the largest segment (28%) aged 30 to 44; and that 78% of those purchases were for that person's own reading.

[(Anonymous)]

Hey, are you into the Peter Davison years? Because if you aren't, you need more 5th Doctor in your life.

He spends quite a while with an accumulated Tardis 'family' who spend a lot of time bickering. Some (most?) are aliens. One is a tragically underused robot, because the prop didn't really work. Two are boys/men.

Also, Tom Baker (later series) is pretty good for that, but not such a large crew at the same time.

Re: Shitty week

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah. Actually, I find Tetris and Centipede really help reduce my anxiety on flights. It would probably help now, too. Thanks, anon.

Fanmagazines

[(Anonymous)]

Do you know of any good ones?

I just checked out a recent one for Sailor Moon, issuu.com/lunacymagazine. It's only been two numbers, but I think it's off to a good start. It reminded me of the format me and my friends tried for our Gundam Wing, except we failed horribly. It was filled with misinformation (like Due being an actual God of Death and Trowa/Quatre being canon), gratuitous Japanese, bad fanart and Mary Sues. Oh, and since it was in the 90's we only reached five people.

[(Anonymous)]

Holy crap! A B-7 post!! There is plenty of fic out there anon, if you choose to look. I hate to say this, but ff.n has some good ones. Here's a good place to start: http://www.b7fic.com/ Live Journal has a couple of still working groups also.

Welcome! And enjoy!!!

Re: The moment you gave up a tv show

[intrigueing]

Gave up on HIMYM after "The Broath", although it was more a "straw that broke the camel's back" deal than because of anything big in that particular episode. It was the way Robin's character was handled post-Symphony of Illumination and the resurgence of the Ted/Robin stuff a few episodes earlier that was the shark-jumper for me, even if "No Pressure" was an absolutely awesome and hilarious episode if taken all on its own (I am never gonna get over that glorious background gag of "you can tell this flashback is set in 2008 because Barney's obviously listening to 'Single Ladies'." Never ever ever :D)

I gave up on Six Feet Under after the season 2 finale, in which I realized that huge, life-changing, emotional, heartwrenching, intense, suspenseful, overwhelming cliffhanger things were happening...and yet I did not give one single fuck about any of the characters and was impatiently drumming my fingers all through the episode waiting for it to end. Not really a shark-jump moment either, just the moment I realized that I hated the show and had for a long time.

Gave up on ER when Mark got diagnosed with terminal brain cancer just weeks after getting engaged to Corday and on the same day that she found out she was pregnant. There's angst and drama, and then there's just viciously shitting on a character repeatedly for no reason at all. If it was some other character I wouldn't have minded so much, but after all the crap he'd been through and struggled with and overcome over the past six seasons, doing that to him was just unspeakably ugly.

[(Anonymous)]

This exactly. I'm sorry but I'm not going to wait a year or two until it comes out where I live with a hideous dub.

[(Anonymous)]

The most popular genre of fiction out there is the romance novel--books designed to be light and escapist reads, where good defeats evil, love triumphs and everything ends well. When you're reading a book to relax after a stressful day, you don't necessarily want to spend that time struggling with dense or obscure language and complicated plots. I suspect YA novels feed that same craving for light entertainment in convenient book form that romance novels do. You can decide if you see that as a good or bad thing.

[(Anonymous)]

Market researchers, obviously. YA is the most lucrative aspect of publishing right now.

Re: Fanon that annoys the shit out of you

[(Anonymous)]

Whiny? Idk, I don't think I've seen that aspect of Steve's fanan yet. The obsessive part yes, but it's not been that whiny. hmm.

[(Anonymous)]

Hot!