[ SECRET POST #2225 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2225 ⌋

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

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 04 pages, 084 secrets from Secret Submission Post #318.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 1 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ], [ 1 - take it to comments ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Would people actually have identified what pairing they were talking about if they hadn't named it later in the secret? The picture seems particularly obscure.

[(Anonymous)]

ikr

also, is that cup chipped or is it a funky design

[(Anonymous)]

Yes. The chipped cup is a huge thing with the Rumbelle plotline in Once.

[(Anonymous)]

As the person above me said, if you know the pairing or the show, then yes, probably. The chipped cup is a big deal for their storyline. Last remnant of a (repeatedly) lost love, sort of thing.

[rivulet027]

It's a chippped cup, in ouat world that means Rum/Belle.

[(Anonymous)]

If they watch Once Upon a Time, then very definitely. Rumpelstiltskin/Belle is the show's take on Beauty and the Beast, and given that said show airs on ABC, which is owned by Disney, well, if you've seen the Disney animated film you know where they got the cup from. Thankfully this one doesn't talk. (Couldn't now anyway. Still twitchy about that last episode.) I kind of pity anyone who goes looking for a complete Royal Albert Val d'Or teaset in the future for non-fandom reasons, because they'll have a hell of a time finding a set where the cups weren't sold off individually to fangirls and cosplayers and immediately defaced with blue paint and deliberate chips.--a Belle cosplayer.

[(Anonymous)]

Oh, dear. People do that?! I mean, china isn't something I have an interest in, but the idea of someone deliberately buying a cup to fuck it up for their cosplay makes me grit my teeth.

[(Anonymous)]

What's making me grit mine is that they're going for a specific *maker* when they could be using stuff they got at the thrift store no one is going to miss.

Admittedly, I have a vague interest in china [specifically tea cups] so that doesn't help but...seriously. That kind of thing does rub me the wrong way.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm the anon who mentioned cosplay in the first place. Believe me, if it were possible to find a cheaper alternative, the fangirls, self included, would buy them. But so far as lots of crazed cosplayers can determine, that's what the Once Upon a Time prop guys used and as far as shape and color go, it's the only accurate choice. Considering Belle's character specifically is dressed in some very expensive clothes that have sometimes been modified, (or ruined, if you want to see it that way) fine china fanciers are probably not the only collectors OUAT cosplayers have managed to piss off. (Looks with longing at sold out Gucci peep-toe heels, Armani dresses, and Alexander McQueen skirts, not to mention still available for only $400.00 Chloe sneakers. Where's Rumpelstiltskin got to? I could trade my hypothetical firstborn for a heap of gold.)

[(Anonymous)]

Er--I did say I was a cosplayer. I bought one for that reason. Haven't gotten around to defacing it yet, though. If it makes you feel any better, the people who already have intact sets must be grinning ear-to-ear as the value goes up. Also, even though it's awesome and spawned the second most popular canon ship on the show, you probably shouldn't watch the episode where that cup makes its first appearance, as a whole bunch of them were violently destroyed on camera. Especially if it took multiple takes to film. So blame the props guys, the scriptwriters, and Robert Carlyle before you come after cosplayers. Depending on how long the show runs, who knows, there may be an official licensed replica at some point.