[ SECRET POST #2221 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2221 ⌋

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

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 022 secrets from Secret Submission Post #317.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

OP doesn't like fic writers who write fics about canon works set in fictional universes but who set their fics in universes which merge our world with theirs without warning. Like, Bilbo goes to L.A but is still a hobbit and the author doesn't warn their readers about it (just "AU", or something, I guess).

[(Anonymous)]

No. They use DBZ as an example. DBZ is set on Earth. But DBZ's earth has different names for cities, countries, places, etc. So New York isn't called New York even though it is New York.

[fenm]

Looking at the map on this page shows a world with similar landmasses, but they're in different places. So, even if it IS supposed to be "our" Earth, it's either far in the past or the future, before or after the land masses were where they are now.

Oh, and there are dinosaurs and sentient cats, dogs, pigs, etc.

So, no, DBZ doesn't really take place on Earth as we know it. So there's no reason New York would exist yet/anymore/at all.

[(Anonymous)]

THAT'S WHAT THEY ARE COMPLAINING ABOUT. People calling a place New York in DBZ just because it's 'Earth'. They are complaining about people assuming a place called earth = /our/ earth.

[fenm]

Except the person I'm replying to is complaining about the opposite problem: It's Earth but they're not calling the cities by the correct "Earth" names.

[(Anonymous)]

Anon, your explanation didn't make it any clearer. :(


Strange secret. If I actually understood it, maybe I'd appreciate it.

[(Anonymous)]

It annoys OP when the author inserts "real world" places (i.e. New York) into fictional universes that don't naturally include those places. As in OP's example, (s)he dislikes it when people refer to New York in DBZ fic, because New York does not exist in the DBZ universe.