[ SECRET POST #2121 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2121 ⌋

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

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02.
[Darths and Droids]


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03.
[Captain America & Iron Man]


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04.
[The Walking Dead]


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05.
[Divergent]


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06.
[SPN RPF]


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07.
[Sanctuary]


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08.
[Person of Interest]


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09.
[Last Exile]


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10.
[Hugo Weaving / Sam Neill]


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11.
[Type-Moon]


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12.
[Spec Ops: The Line]


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13.
[Quantum Leap]


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14.
[Tom Hiddleston]


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15.
[Labyrinth]


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16.
[Trent & Mariqueen Reznor, How to Destroy Angels]


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 051 secrets from Secret Submission Post #303.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ], [ 1 - posted twice ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

OP

[(Anonymous)]

Pasting and expanding upon my reply to someone above:
Totally lost track of when this secret would be posted and finally just did a Google search to find it, what is it, from 3 weeks ago? Dammit. :(

In any event, for the record, yes, I did mean in aged-up fics. And the older-but-still-virgin Sarah I've encountered in fics does not seem to be in control, usually, or at least not in comparison to devious-blue/orange morality-sex god Jareth. The most in-control deliberative, er, 'deflowering' fic I've seen also had Jareth as this ridiculously nice, noble guy, for which I can see an argument be made (him following Sarah's expectations in the movie vs what he'd normally be like) but it basically just came off as really OOC. A number of other fics have Jareth all smug and possessive of getting to be first and only to get into Sarah's pants while also having had tons of partners himself, and that's...sleazy to me.

And no, I did not mean that virgins are inherently weaker or whatever (which is what I was trying to allude to with the "nothing against virginity" aside). But sex can complicate a relationship (and this one is already fraught with complications and, I still aver, power differences-- age, worldliness, powers and the know-how to deliberately use them) and while one's first sexual relationship isn't automatically The Most Significant Thing Ever, it's neither automatically The Least Significant Thing, either (and the impression of Sarah's character I got is that she'd be more to the former than the latter). It's the combination of "Jareth is Immortal, Highly Sexually Experienced, Has Strong Magic Powers, and Lacks a Human Sense of Basic Morality, Politeness, Etc" with "Sarah gets steamrolled by his sexy presence" that...eh.

Sarah's not going to magically get older than he is, she's unlikely to have stronger magic than he has and the experience of wielding it, and there's a tendency in the fic I've read to have her still be swayed by ~Fairy Tale Land~ instead of being able to bring in a grounded human perspective on why fulfilling your crush's fear by being frightening is NOT charming. (Tiffany Aching handled the Wintersmith better, imo.) So why, on top of all of that, not even give her that one small dimension of...added self-knowledge?