[ SECRET POST #017 ]

[shahni.livejournal.com]

⌈ Secret Post #017 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe.

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Notes:

- The Da Vinci Code image wasn't loading correctly, so I hosted it on Imageshack. Just a heads-up to everyone, please post direct links rather than image reference links (Ithinkthat'swhatthey'recalled). LJ's evil and likes to destroy some image links for me. Sorry for the trouble!

Secrets Left to Post: 04 pages, 120 secrets from Secret Submission Post #003.
Secrets Not Posted: 0 broken links, 0 not!secrets, 0 not!fandom.
Next Secret Post: Tomorrow, Tuesday, January 23.
Current Secret Submission Post: Here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[lostremnant.livejournal.com]

4. The only thing that makes me want to play DoC now is Reeve. I really like him. Don't like his outfit though.

10. OK noob here again. What is kawaii?

15. Why would you let a role player's interpretation of a character "ruin" your enjoyment of the movie? My enjoyment of the movie was ruined by an interpretation of some characters as well but that's because the interpretation was done by Square Enix. :P Just ignore other fan's interpretations if you don't like them.

16. I find her annoying but then I find a lot of female characters created by Square Enix annoying. For some reason the company makes a lot of female characters whose main objective seems to be making life miserable for some poor male character and then the male character falls in love with her.

18. I don't hate KH. It's just a game after all. I simply have no interest in playing it and yes it's because of the mixture of Disney characters with Square Enix characters. It's just too much of a clash for me. If you consider me pathetic simply because I have no interest in a game you obviously like well then...tough. I'm not going to lose any sleep over it.

19. Frankly I'm not impressed with either one of them.

#16

[(Anonymous)]

Statements like that are exactly why I hate most FF fans. "Make life miserable for some poor male character?" Because those poor, spineless male characters have no free will, and it's all the evil girl causing little woobie trouble.

Re: #16

[levikitty.livejournal.com]

Rinoa is the only FF female who really fits into that category, actually. None of the other girls work that way.

Re: #16

[(Anonymous)]

I hate that whole "category" anyway because most things are much more complex than that, but people will bitch about it and make out like the poor defenceless man got manipulated by an evil witch into doing whatever she wants. Rinoa does actually have a personality, and if people are annoyed by that I don't really care. It just bugs me when people make her out to be something she wasn't.

Re: #16

[lostremnant.livejournal.com]

I think Yuffie in FFVII fits in that category as well. Rinoa struck me at least intially as a spoiled little girl playing at being a rebel just as Yuffie was a spoiled little Princess playing at being a ninja...and one who stole everyone's materia.

More to the point though is that I'm not saying that every female character in a Square Enix game is like this. In FFVII I liked Tifa and Aerith. In FFVIII I liked Quistus and that other female who accompanied them and whose name I've forgotten because it's been so long since I played the game. And there was a female General in I believe it was FFVI whom I really liked.

Rinoa and Yuffie were annoying to me.

Re: #16

[klytaemnestra.livejournal.com]

Celes is awesome. I still can't believe someone on here referred to her as a Mary Sue. I also adore Rosa from FFIV.

Re: #16

[grayout.livejournal.com]

In her defense, Rinoa was SUPPOSED to be a spoiled little girl playing at being a rebel. She's NOT a TRAINED KILLER FROM CHILDHOOD like all the SeeDs; she was MEANT to be the one that was innocent, different, and the one that saw the world in a different, more optimistic, "we can CHANGE things if we try!" way. I do think that Squall did a 180 and randomly fell in love with her, but that doesn't mean that RINOA did it; that was Squall being OOC, not a problem with Rinoa as a character. Rinoa as a character falling for Squall was totally IC for her; Squall feeling the same way back is HIS problem, not HERS.

Personally, I think Rinoa's character was fine as it is. Squall is the one that needed work, bad.

Re: #16

[klytaemnestra.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Squall bugged me a lot. His apathy drove me up a wall.

[(Anonymous)]

This might just be me, but it seems like you go out of your way to say something negative about at least one secret each day. Now, it might not be happening that often, but it feels like it. I think you're one of the reasons that people have to keep some of these things secret.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, I've noticed the same thing. It's okay to have a different opinion, but it just seems like you're always trying to find the negative in everything. I'm almost scared to continue posting here if this is going to start becoming a trend among members. I enjoy a good discussion on why one likes this and whatnot, but it just seems like it's become a daily thing for you to rag on something or someone's opinion. We post here to say things we wouldn't say out loud to others because we don't want that overtly negative opinion.

[(Anonymous)]

Third person here. Agreed.

[autophobia.livejournal.com]

Let me be the one to disagree, then. I don't know the person, but I tend to scroll through comments just like anyone else to see the differences of opinions and what becomes of it. Diversity pleases me, that sort of thing. So far, I haven't seen lost_remnant do anything but speak her/his mind, and respond to the secrets.

I also don't feel like starting a wank war, but, here I go: A lot of these anonymous comments seem very off, to me.

"I think you're one of the reasons that people have to keep some of these things secret." "I'm almost scared to continue posting here if this is going to start becoming a trend among members... We post here to say things we wouldn't say out loud to others because we don't want that overtly negative opinion."

You know, if we didn't have the inbred fear of disagreement, I think a lot of things wouldn't stay secret, correct. I don't think I'm all that off by saying that that's part of the reason why this community was created, and also why secrets are posted anonymously. Opinions are going to be shared here, that's part of the purpose of it, and if you don't want opinions, I don't think it's completely wise to read through the comments after seeing your secret posted.

[autophobia.livejournal.com]

And, excuse the typo. lostremnant^

[grayout.livejournal.com]

Technically, by your reasoning, then, those anonymous people above have just as much right to express their opinions as lostremnant does, right? And none of the posts made above were particularly offensive, in my opinion.

You see this happen all the time in ljsecret (especially when anything dealing with homosexuality is posted) and meh, people will be people and disagree with each other. What can you do?

[autophobia.livejournal.com]

No, I completely agree with you. Don't get me wrong, Case, my meaning of 'off' wasn't offensive, more, it seemed contradictory and wrong to me.

As long as nothing becomes too personal, and it eventually ends, I don't see any harm come from a little disagreement. All you *can* do is offer your own opinion, and sit back and watch.

And excuse me if this is a double post, LJ's whackin' on me.

[grayout.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, and "kawaii" is Japanese for "cute."