[ SECRET POST #219 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #219 ⌋

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

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 05 pages, 103 secrets from Secret Submission Post #032.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 1 ] broken links, 0 not!secrets, 0 not!fandom.
Next Secret Post: Tomorrow, Monday, August 12th, 2007.
Current Secret Submission Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

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[nashidesei.livejournal.com]

Late to the party, here, but I just wanted to mention that someone, somewhere, is getting off on the quicksand scene in The Princess Bride. Because everything is fetishable. Rule 34 and all that.

Some people are turned on by pretty shots of HANDS, so I guess we should ban all those perfume ads that have hands hold the bottle, right? It's "pornographic" to some people. And those hands are actually real, so that makes it SO much worse than fanart.

And heck, all those teen magazines had better go too, considering most of the models are under the age of eighteen and therefore "children." Let's take down the Disney Channel while we're at it for having shows featuring children doing less-than-childlike things, because someone's getting off on the thought of The Suite Life of Zack and Cody twincest RIGHT NOW.

Seriously, if we were to go around getting rid of everything that someone could get off on, there would be nothing left. There's probably someone out there turned on by the way that secret is arranged, so I guess you should be banned right now without anyone warning you about it.

I'm definitely NOT into the sort of thing that got those artists banned--abuse survivor, hi--but even I can tell that slashy fanart of fictional characters isn't hurting or taking advantage of anyone except, maybe, those fictional characters. If it were something like a photomanipulation of two REAL people, that would be something else entirely. But it wasn't. Those pictures weren't even close to photorealistic.

Although, all that aside, I'm seriously not nearly as bothered by the banninations as by how they were handled--after Barak SAID that fandom wasn't going to be screwed with anymore, and that there WOULD be notice given prior to deletion in the future. It's underhanded and dirty, and I don't get how anyone can think THAT is okay.

I can understand LJ wanting the pictures taken down--even though I've been told they were apparently f-locked, which everyone was told would work as a failsafe to avoid bannination back during the original Strikethrough--but the fact that they had a "ban first and don't answer any questions until waaaaay later" approach to it is what bothers me the most, and that's what I really and truly disapprove of.