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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2012-11-07 06:10 pm

[ SECRET POST #2136 ]


⌈ Secret Post #2136 ⌋

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

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[Psych]


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[Karl Urban]


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04.
[pokemon: best wishes]


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[Bleach]


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[Elementary/X-Files]


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[Fievel Goes West]


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[Potap & Nastya Kamenskih]


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[Smallville]


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[Fairy Tail]


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[The Lorax]


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[Robot Chicken]


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[Downton Abbey]


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14.
[Pauly Perette]


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[TVXQ]


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 032 secrets from Secret Submission Post #305.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Re: Common Fanfic Plots You Absolutely Cannot Stand

(Anonymous) 2012-11-08 01:14 am (UTC)(link)
-Any kind of "grown up" real world AU, generally. Coffee shop AUs, bakery AUs, carnival AUs, police AUs, etc. Because I've read at least 100 of the damn things in a dozen fandoms and nearly every time the author has gotten some major detail about the job / industry / whatever completely wrong. I can think of maybe half a dozen exceptions where I either didn't notice any errors, or they were so small I could forgive the lack of knowledge. On the other hand, I tend to enjoy well-written college and high school AUs. I think its a case of authors writing what they know (school) versus what they fantasize about ("cool" jobs).

-Anything where Character A is picked on, ignored, or otherwise slighted by the rest of the cast. Especially if their love interest doesn't notice the problem, or contributes to the problem.

-Ukefication of non-uke characters. I love my femmes and my queens and my twinks, and I'm personally about as effeminate as a man can get, but it really bothers me when a character (male or female) gets turned into a cringing flower constantly subject to assault and abuse, just so the big muscular tall strong brave stony-faced love interest can swoop in and save them

-Standard anti-heroes and villains being turned super grimdark and edgy. And related to that, sympathetic villains being made unsympathetic just to make them more scary. Loki doesn't need to be murdering kittens and bathing in the severed body parts of his enemies to be cool and menacing, guys, I promise. Dumbledore doesn't need to be a secret supervillain to serve as an effective antagonist for a story. Going over the top with the gore and rape and grimdark just makes a good villain LESS scary.