[ SECRET POST #213 ]

[case]

⌈ Secret Post #213 ⌋

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

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 04 pages, 094 secrets from Secret Submission Post #031.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 1 ] broken links, 0 not!secrets, 0 not!fandom, [ 1 ] repeat.
Next Secret Post: Tomorrow, Tuesday, August 7th, 2007.
Current Secret Submission Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[bouncy-erbear.livejournal.com]

19. You've seen this yes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdxkVQy7QLM

[moebot.livejournal.com]

4. She is gorgeous.
17. Passions is the single greatest show I have ever seen in my life. Respect.

[colortheory.livejournal.com]

10. I LOVED WISHBONE AS A KID. ♥

[jill-calico.livejournal.com]

19. Everyone hates Pachelbel. (http://youtube.com/watch?v=JdxkVQy7QLM) :D Except me. But I've never had to sing/play it.

[held.livejournal.com]

that i have! it's so true it hurts. singing it sucks because it's pretty much the same thing over and over and you go high and low and the lyrics are lsdkmflskmdfsdf okay i'm done. ♥

[held.livejournal.com]

IT SUCKS, MAN. i really will see pachelbel in hell. and when i do, i'm gonna punch him in the throat.

Re: 22.

[(Anonymous)]

Wikipedia, reading recced fics, reading recced essays, having friends describe the characters personalities and actions to me, checking and rechecking with them to see if I was staying IC, and eventually getting a good grasp of them.

[chaoticchicken.livejournal.com]

5. Word. I automatically think less of anyone who writes/RPs/talks about the characters specifically in that game when they've never played it, too.

7. No one's stopping you from making your own icons.

20. I'm actually kind of curious as to how.

[bouncy-erbear.livejournal.com]

XD We posted the same link

[blackhearts]

4. She's fucking GORGEOUS. Alot of my friends are like, 'ew fat' and I am like, 'FUCK YOU GUYS WITH A STICK now let's go get some lunch' because she is amazing, particularly in Chicago and Hairspray.
10. WISHBONE! :3
17. Those are amazing stills. I never watched Passions (General Hospital for life <3), but those are just fantastic.
19. Signed~

PS

[jill-calico.livejournal.com]

5. Because it wasn't loading for me and now it does. I didn't find it confusing, but I hated it all the same. Never bothered to finish it. Read the manga, didn't miss a thing.

[jill-calico.livejournal.com]

I KNOW. You just got to it faster. But seriously, I love that clip. That guy is love. XD

[hello-scorpling.livejournal.com]

14. L/Misa was the only DN pairing I ever cared for. :O

Re: 22.

[(Anonymous)]

how can you be a fan in a fandom and never have seen or read the canon?

wikipedia is not a reliable source. recced fics and essays are biased with a slant from the individual and is scary considering how much horrible fanon I've seen perpetuated in fandoms such as Gundam Wing by writers who couldn't be buggered to watch the show.

honestly the best way to get a grasp of the characters is to watch it yourself and not get caught in the fanon trap that so often accompanies getting your information third hand. I sure hope you aren't in my fandoms. not watching or reading the canon material and getting your characterizations from fanfiction is unbelieveably and grossly irresponsible.

please don't pull the 'but everyone loves my interpretation' because I've seen fanon versions of characters beloved in fandoms which bore no resemblance to the show at all.

you fail. hugely.

[karel]

1. I've honestly never understood that. I tend to be angry with the person playing the character rather than starting to dislike the character/pairing.

5. ... Yeah, and I think less of you for your condescending attitude. I am fucking awful at doing math quickly in my head. Call me stupid if it makes you feel better, but there's a lot of people like me.

8. My Mary Sues allowed me to actually START writing to begin with. I think the hate for them is blown out of proportion.

10. WISHBONE. OHMYGOD~ 8D I loved that show as a kid.

19. I'm neutral on it. All I care about is how convincing it is, and having a decent reason. Slap an AU label on it, for all I care.

20. ... I'm sorry. I think it's pretty stupid that fandom is like that. >>'

22. YES.

[powercorrupts.livejournal.com]

7 See my oversaturated screenshot icon for my commentary, please.

So sorry that you don't think they're real icons, how about you make some "real icons" of your own, then? Fill your fandom with them if you think so little of other iconmakers.

Re: 22.

[(Anonymous)]

I didn't say beloved, I said solid. Which means that the people that have read the fics said that the characters were IC, and yep, I asked for random, anonymous people over the internet to crit me as hard as they could and point out all my characterization errors so I could learn better. I also did, at the beginning, years ago, put up disclaimers saying I had never read the material. After that, I stopped posting those disclaimers and no one complained a bit. ;)

After a response like that, I hope I am in your fandoms, just to annoy you!

[powercorrupts.livejournal.com]

19? 22?

Back alley, bare knuckles. I demand it. ♥

[crackjaw.livejournal.com]

19. I don't really mind "canon nazis" except for the ones who think everyone should ship canon, no exceptions, and every AU is a bad AU and THERE IS NO ROOM FOR INTERPRETATION DAMMIT.

[sarajayechan.livejournal.com]

7. Everybody run! It's the icon police!

[tonko-ni.livejournal.com]

7. I don't make icons or have any idea how, really (aside from cropping in paint, whee, I have leet skillz), but how are people who work to saturate or recolour or do whatever to images the ones with less of a life than "real iconists" who may work just as hard to chose fonts or borders and whatnot?

Altering colours and cropping well and chosing the right image frame seem to me just as important skills as doing whatnot with photochop. I'm not saying there aren't people putting out pointless batches of stuff only for the sake of doing it, but it doesn't mean that style of icon is bad.

[sarajayechan.livejournal.com]

Ditto.

[teaclovers.livejournal.com]

I think this is probably the funniest comment I've ever read.

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[runic-binary.livejournal.com]

May I just ask why you wanted to write fic for fandoms that you've never read the canon for? I mean, why were you interested in the fandoms?

[teaclovers.livejournal.com]

Exactly. Coloring is harder than it looks. D: