[ SECRET POST #2112 ]

[case]

⌈ Secret Post #2112 ⌋

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

01.


__________________________________________________



02.


__________________________________________________



03.


__________________________________________________



04.


__________________________________________________



05.


__________________________________________________



06.


__________________________________________________



07.


__________________________________________________



08.


__________________________________________________



09.


__________________________________________________



10.


__________________________________________________



11.


__________________________________________________



12.


__________________________________________________



13.


__________________________________________________



14.


__________________________________________________



15.


__________________________________________________



16.


__________________________________________________



17.


__________________________________________________



18.


__________________________________________________



19.


__________________________________________________



20.


__________________________________________________














Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 05 pages, 102 secrets from Secret Submission Post #302.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 1 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[mudousetsuna]

I'm torn on this. I hate being spoiled. That said, like the above commenter said, if you don't want to know it, don't go where you'll be spoiled.

But if someone comes up to me and, on purpose, after I have expressed my request to not be spoiled, tells me everything, you bet your fucking ass that I'm going to be pissed off at them.

I can still enjoy a show knowing what happens, but for me, half of my enjoyment is in the rush of emotions of surprise, shock, and anticipation. Taking those away because you get a kick out of telling someone being spoiled is stupid is just as stuck up and mean.

[elaminator]

I can still enjoy a show knowing what happens, but for me, half of my enjoyment is in the rush of emotions of surprise, shock, and anticipation.

This exactly. Many people have fond memories attached to the first time they watched a certain movie, or played a specific game. It's not that knowing automatically makes things suck, but it can take some of the joy away, yes.

And most people are not going to stay off the internet completely in hopes of avoiding being spoiled. You may know certain places that should be avoided, but the truth is that some people are dicks and will post spoilers for completely unrelated topics in places you would never expect them, or know to avoid. That's the internet for you. :/

[(Anonymous)]

Exactly. You can't avoid everything online because most stuff has been moved to online. Banking, looking for jobs, having to stay active on social media for work, checking emails, research, etc. I can't control if someone sends me an email with a subject, "Hey you" and when I open it there's a big spoiler in it because the sender was too stupid to warn me in the subject heading or something.

[kallanda_lee]

Exactly. And I've seen Game of Throne spoilers on Reddit threads that are even unrelated to television entirely. That's just a dick move.

[cielo]

this is a perfect comment. :3 i feel this way exactly.

i hate spoilers so i dont go where i know i will get spoiled... but then there's my bff for example, who LOVES spoiling stuff for no fucking reason. like she was telling me "you should watch [name of movie], IT DOESN'T END WELL!!11! :D" and i was like "well, thank you for ruining it".

IT PISSES ME OFF TO NO END.

[tabaqui]

This! I love having a twist revealed or a surprise character appear. That's the *fun*! I don't like being spoiled, and i don't like someone doing it deliberately just to be an ass.

OP

[(Anonymous)]

Spoiling someone deliberately is an asshole thing to do, I agree.

[(Anonymous)]

I had ever single Harry Potter book spoiled for me because of this. I'm a strong reader, but not a very FAST reader. So to have people telling me stuff even when I told them NOT to tell me, it upsets me to no end. I want to be surprised/shocked/whatever all on my own.

[truxillogical]

I can still enjoy a show knowing what happens, but for me, half of my enjoyment is in the rush of emotions of surprise, shock, and anticipation.

And that's the whole purpose of story-telling, really. Anyone can give you a play-by-play of what happened. A story-teller, an artist, a director, and actor, is supposed to make you experience it. And part of that experience is seeing it for the first time. I don't usually say something like "The Way The Creator Intended!" but in this case, yeah. It interferes with the storytelling.

[(Anonymous)]

See, I just don't like "you're reading it wrong."

I don't like being surprised. I don't process subtext well, my attention span is generally crap, and battle and fight scenes bore me. Nine times out of ten, if I don't get spoiled I'm going to miss significant segments of a story simply by not slowing down enough to notice them properly. The fun for me is in the analysis and the tropes and the particular way a story is told -- not in what exactly happens.

[truxillogical]

I'm not phrasing it well. Surprise is part of it, yes. As Robert McKee phrased it, "the closing of the gap" that is at the heart of story telling. If you hear a story at all, even just rehashed on wiki, it happens. The point of a writer or a director is to make it work as well as possible. A writer doesn't just have an Idea. Everyone has Ideas. A writer chooses exactly the right words to convey what happened. A movie is even more a culmination of that--a director choosing exactly what shots to make, and actor choosing how to deliver the lines, the composer choosing the sounds that will best highlight the scene.

The difference is the difference between saying "Coulson went to stop Loki and got stabbed" versus the emotional impact of the scene itself. It's just about "being surprised." It's about a story being told well.