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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2013-02-01 07:11 pm

[ SECRET POST #2222 ]


⌈ Secret Post #2222 ⌋

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

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16. [SPOILERS for Celeste & Jesse Forever]



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17. [SPOILERS for Superior Spider-Man, Scarlet Spider]



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18. [SPOILERS for DMC: Devil May Cry]



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19. [WARNING for incest]

[A Tale of Two Sisters]


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20. [WARNING for suicide]



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21. [WARNING for eating disorders]



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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 00 pages, 000 secrets from Secret Submission Post #317.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 1 - 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.

(Anonymous) 2013-02-02 05:56 am (UTC)(link)
That's what you find appealing about the site, everyone who visits it is going to have a different experience.
The site's gone downhill a lot since I started visiting it years ago, and if I first discovered it in its current state I might have had a different experience, but when I first stumbled onto it, it actually did help me to start thinking a lot more critically about fiction. It got me to start noticing patterns across fictional works, and noticing them led to thinking about things like why the patterns existed, what they were trying to convey, why they were useful, and why writers continued to use them, and it was really cool to notice two works of fiction use the exact same trope but in completely different ways.
You won't get that from TV Tropes itself (especially not now), but it can still be a springboard for that kind of thinking (particularly if you avoid the toxic waste dump that is the forums and discussion pages), so saying that pure fun indulgence is all it is and can ever be for anyone who isn't taking it way too seriously is really oversimplifying things. My experience with the site may not be as common as yours, but it isn't any less legitimate.
And if I'm taking it way too seriously, then so be it.