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fandomsecrets2013-01-25 07:38 pm
case) wrote in fandomsecrets2013-01-25 07:38 pm
[ SECRET POST #2215 ]
⌈ Secret Post #2215 ⌋
Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.
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[Rose McGowan]
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[Puella Magi Madoka Magica]
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[Fringe]
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[Touhou Project / Axis Powers Hetalia: Romaheta / Kuroshitsuji / Homestuck]
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[Being Human UK]
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[Three Kingdoms 2010]
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[Legend]
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11. http://i.imgur.com/fO4RU.jpg
[linked for kind of porny/suggestive postures of possibly underage character]
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12. http://i.imgur.com/T28p7.jpg
[linked for illustrated porny x 2 (clothed, but that doesnt do much)]
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[Downton Abbey]
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[Xia Junsu/Tarantellera]
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[ ----- SPOILERY SECRETS AHEAD ----- ]
16. [SPOILERS for Downton Abbey]
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17. [SPOILERS for Homestuck]
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[ ----- TRIGGERY SECRETS AHEAD ----- ]
18. [WARNING for abuse]
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19. [WARNING for abuse]
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20. [WARNING for incest]
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Notes:
Late day at work, sorry.
Secrets Left to Post: 00 pages, 000 secrets from Secret Submission Post #316.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 1 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 1 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ], [ 1 - template ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.
Re: Weird misogyny aside, is this worth reading? (Some minor spoilers)
I used to like a lot of YA/kids books, but now I play a drinking game with them (with soda or something, not old enough to drink yet): pick up a recent YA book. If it has a female protagonist and male love interest is mentioned in the blurb, take a shot. If the male LI is dark, brooding, mysterious, unattainable, aloof, "off-limits," or any combination of the above, take a shot for each adjective. If the male LI is some kind of paranormal creature (but still humanoid, that's important), forget the shot glass and take a swig. If there's so much rape culture inherent in the book that you can see it from outer space just by reading the blurb, drain the bottle.
On the other hand, if any of this is subverted, or if the romantic combination is anything other than female/male humanoids, and it's not a "Woe Is Me, I Am Gay," kind of book, check it out or buy it immediately.
As for actual books, I've read Skulduggery Pleasant, though it's one of those that you read up to what's currently written and then you forget everything by the time the next one comes out. I haven't read HIVE but I've been meaning to, I just can't find the time.
There was a book series called Nightmare Academy, or something, that I was reading and liked quite a bit, though that was in eighth grade so I don't know if they're actually any good.
I've started re-reading the Secrets of Droon series and I'm surprised at how good it is, despite being, y'know, for kids. The writing's good and while it has a lot of obvious fantasy tropes (old wise wizard, Narnia-time, etc.), they aren't annoyingly overused. The individual books take me like ten or twenty minutes to read, but there's a lot of them.
Emily Rodda's book are pretty good - Rowan of Rin and Deltora Quest come to mind, don't know if she's done anything else. They kind of hinge on riddles and puzzles as their main plot devices, some of which are kind of obvious and some of seem to have come out of a handbook on espionage. Your enjoyment of those books probably depends on how much you like rhyming riddles, though, and like most kids' books, they are on the formulaic side (get the seven gems, pass the five challenges, one of you will turn back every mile, etc.).
There was one series I used to read... had unicorns and high fantasy in it... what was it called... Unicorn of Balinor? Something like that. Again, don't know if it's any good from an adult point of view, but I liked them when I read them.
Re: Weird misogyny aside, is this worth reading? (Some minor spoilers)
I totally hear you on the YA books. It's something we've been noticing and making fun of a lot, the current trend of broody paranormal romance that followed on the heels of Twilight. It's probably one of the reasons that I do fall back toward kids books as well--there are a lot of really well written ones, and they don't usually need to focus on romance. I think I've seen the Unicorns of Balinor, or at least it sounds familiar. Have you read Bruce Coville's Into the Land of Unicorns quartet? Or really, any of Coville's work. He always does a great job with his female protagonists and letting them be people and not necessarily needing a romance because Other Things Are Happening Right Now.
We've considered starting a drinking game at the library, but we think the city would frown on it. ;)
Re: Weird misogyny aside, is this worth reading? (Some minor spoilers)
Yeah, there was Twilight that made a zillion bucks, then Hush Hush and that whole noxious crowd. Less a crowd and more a miasma, really. Though I'm reading a wonderful deconstruction of Twilight, here: http://www.anamardoll.com/2011/02/twilight-twilight-deconstruction-index.html, which is both very funny and enlightening.
Unicorns of Balinor is, I think, that one with the girl who suffers a horse-riding accident, and to pay for her medical bills her parents are forced to give riding lessons to the annoying stuck up rich girl, and then her horse turns out to be magical or something, and there's character development and all sorts of good stuff. The TV Tropes page is spoileriffic, so here's Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicorns_of_Balinor
I've read some of Coville's stuff, I think. That one where the teacher is an alien in disguise, or something. I may have read other books of his and not remembered; I read a lot as a kid, when I had much more time to do so.
It's kind of sad that our standards from media are now so low that "a female character is a person" and "there isn't a Romance shoehorned in" are exceptionally good things. Sigh. Unfortunately I work in my high school's library (as a TA, they don't pay me), so I get to sit through a lot of this.
On a vaguely related note, my friend tried to get me to read Interview With a Vampire and the related books a while ago, and I lost interest because I hadn't hit the point where I have lots and lots of hormones mucking up my brain yet. Are they actually any good/should I read them, or are they basically the same mindless Twilight drivel but with more sex(y subtext)?