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fandomsecrets2012-10-31 05:49 pm
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[ SECRET POSTS #2128 & 2129 ]
⌈ Secret Posts #2128 & 2129 ⌋
Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.
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[Time Lincoln]
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[Avatar: the Last Airbender]
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[Once Upon a Time]
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[Repo the Genetic Opera]
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[The Avengers]
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[Homestuck/Touhou]
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[ElfQuest/Wendy Pini]
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[Reservoir Dogs + HBO's Oz]
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[The Walking Dead]
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[Covert Affairs]
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[Ouran Host Club]
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[Jae Joong from DBSK and JYJ]
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[Elementary]
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[The Girls Next Door]
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[Steven Moffat]
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[Star Trek: The Next Generation]
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[Alan Cumming/Son of the Mask]
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[The New Normal]
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[Mass Effect]
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[Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle/xxxHolic]
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[Resident Evil 6]
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[Revenge/The Social Network]
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[Cardcaptor Sakura]
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[Glee]
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[Khimeros]
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[Once Upon a Time]
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[Gregory House/Lady Gaga]
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[Glee]
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[The Walking Dead]
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[Madonna "Die Another Day" MV, BEG "Sixth Sense" MV]
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[Doctor Who]
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Notes:
Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 046 secrets from Secret Submission Post #304.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 1 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.
Re: In honor of actually having CLAMP secrets tonight...
(Anonymous) 2012-11-01 12:00 am (UTC)(link)Cardcaptor Sakura is still very popular, even though it finished serialization in 2000. It's a magical girl series, but it takes the "magic" seriously (it's a blend of Chinese and English occult practices) and the characters are all charming and interesting in their own way. The main draw of the series is its many different varieties of "love," and how the protagonist comes to understand and accept them all.
The anime adaptation of CCS is also very good -- depending on whom you ask, it's either the best or the only good anime adaptation of CLAMP's works.
Kobato. is a similarly light and optimistic series on the surface, but it scrapes up against some human cruelties (angry divorces, loansharks, unrequited love, and the "unfairness" of death). You'll either love or dislike the protagonist: Kobato is beautiful, kind-hearted, somewhat foolish, and relentlessly positive, and I've seen some fans get irritated by that. She's been given a mission by Heaven to heal other people's wounded hearts in order to fulfill her own wish, and she's accompanied by a demon who has been forced to assume the form of a small toy dog.
The anime adaption is very recent and very well-animated, but it really flattens Kobato's character.
Gate 7 is CLAMP's most recent series, and it's still in the opening stages of its serialization. It's basically "another Sengoku manga," but the twist is that the warlords have been reincarnated into modern-day Kyoto and are attempting to wage war against each other in the shadows of contemporary society. It's in many respects a love-song to Kyoto, and the artwork is overall excellent -- CLAMP puts in a lot of small details that you don't notice during your first read-through, such as small non-verbal interactions between the characters. It's subtle.
Clover is an older work, but it's visually remarkable! Nanase Ohkawa, the head writer of CLAMP, said in an interview that she wanted each page to be a "separate work of art," and it really shows. The setting is also very intriguing, and the protagonist is unusual among CLAMP works for being a retired military officer in his thirties. An animated music video was released for the series, and you can watch it here (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01xbvbbSyvc&feature=related).
I recommend that you don't read X, since it stopped serialization on a horrible cliffhanger (almost literally) and most likely will never be resumed. I'd also recommend that you don't read xxxHOLiC, even though it represents some of CLAMP's most superb artwork, lore, and character development: the ending is just that bad.
Re: In honor of actually having CLAMP secrets tonight...
And also, don;t read TRC. It started off amazingly but about midway through, it got WAY too convoluted and just ugh and ended bad. Meh.
Re: In honor of actually having CLAMP secrets tonight...
Re: In honor of actually having CLAMP secrets tonight...
(Anonymous) 2012-11-01 04:24 pm (UTC)(link)