[ SECRET POST #2111 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2111 ⌋

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

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Notes:

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Comments

[shinysylver]

Related to this. I HATE it when people write something like this in their summaries:

"a certain Navy Seal"
"a certain Alpha wolf"
"a certain Slytherin"
"a certain blue-eyed boy"
"a certain Jersey detective"

Where did that even come from and why does everyone do it? Not only does it sound stupid and take up valuable summary space, but it is not at all useful. I mean either the canon only has one Jersey detective in it and highlighting "a certain" one is ridiculous or it has a shit-ton of Slytherins and I have no clue if you mean Draco or Goyle or Crab or Pansy... Okay, usually I know, but when someone phrases something that way I feel like being willfully ignorant.

I read a lot of fic and a LOT of bad!fic but summaries that have that phrasing almost always get the pass from me because it just frustrates me so much. A summary with a stupid epithet on top of that ridiculous "a certain" thing repels me faster than even bad spelling.

...sorry I have strong feelings about this. LOL.

[(Anonymous)]

God, this sets my teeth on edge.

[llei]

God, yes. It's reached the stage where I just won't read a fic if this is in the summary. It's just so horribly coy.

I hate it.

(The word 'item' within the story irks me the same way. One character buys a gift or something for another and the author wants to keep it secret from the reader too. So even though they're writing from the POV of the character who bought the thing and knows what it is we still get things like: "She double-checked to make sure the item was still in her pocket."

Treble hate points for the two together. "He picked up a certain item and left the room.")

[dirac]

Same! I don't know if it's meant to be mysterious or cutesy or what, but it always give me a bad feeling about the fic (or story/movie/book/whatever cause I see it all over the place in original works, too).

[ariakas]

Lol well one of those is a personal pet peeve of mine. A Navy Seal? Shit! Someone get it back in the water!