[ SECRET POST #2227 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2227 ⌋

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

01.
[Roswell]


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02.
[Gyakuten Saiban/Ace Attorney]


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03.
[Pokemon]


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04.
[The Vampire Diaries]


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05.
[Teen Wolf]


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06.
[Les Miserables: Shojo Cosette]


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07.
[The Hobbit]


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08.
[Neil Gaiman, Mark Gatiss, Dan Handler]


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09.
[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012)]


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10.
[Power Rangers]


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11.
[Star Wars: The Old Republic]


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12.
[Big Bang Theory]


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13.
[Breaking Bad]

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14.
[Troy Baker]


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15.
[Magi; Final Fantasy IX]


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16.
[Skyrim]


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17.
[Supernatural]


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18.
[Penn & Teller]


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19.
[Flight Facilities - With You]


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20.
[Neil Gaiman]


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 043 secrets from Secret Submission Post #318.
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

[cloudsinvenice]

I understand your feelings. There are times when I find myself getting absurdly, ridiculously excited over finding a female writer/musician/director/artist I like, or a really cool female character I identify with: and then I realise that I've been very strongly influenced by the way culture tends, still, to amplify the skills and achievements of male artists more than those of female artists.

So don't beat yourself up about feeling this way, but do check out more female creators to balance the scales, because it's so important that we have people we can look to when things are tough and go, "One day, I'm going to be where SHE is." I find it really important to follow these artists on Tumblr/FB/Twitter/wherever as well as reading/watching their stuff, because I find I really need the reinforcement of seeing women working in the fields I want to be in.

Here's a few I love, and I've included women in comics because that's another area where we've historically felt very marginalised and seeing examples of people doing well massively helps:

Jane Goldman started out as a journalist on newspapers and Cosmo, wrote books on the paranormal and personal safety/other issues for teens, then became a screenwriter on films like X-Men: First Class, Stardust, Kick Ass and The Woman in Black.

Winnie Holzman: creator of My So-Called Life, one of the prototypes for modern teen drama and SO worth getting on DVD, and writer of the book for the musical version of Wicked.

Caitlin R. Kiernan is a writer whose stuff I'm still making my way through, but she's published loads of SF and dark fantasy, and my specific favourite thing of hers is The Dreaming, a spin-off series from The Sandman which I urge you to check out because it is awesome. And as I just now learned while checking out her Wikipedia bio, she's also a paleontologist so... apparently she digs up dinosaurs in between writing comics? Jesus christ, I want her job!

Colleen Doran - writer/artist of the epic space opera comic series, A Distant Soil (you'll have seen her art in Sandman and a bunch of other places). Doran's career has been groundbreaking in various ways: this article that just came out has a good precis of why at the start but the whole thing is great. She's also done a lot of commentary/advice/advocacy on creator rights issues, and the Very Bad Publishers tag on her blog is a very handy resource for when you go to sell your work and want to make sure you don't get ripped off.

Gail Simone - I've not been keeping up with current comics much, but she was much lauded for her work on Birds of Prey and other people (or Wikipedia) will be able to give you more recent examples of her work to look for (*facepalm* and of course, even I know about Batgirl). She's also the writer who named the "Woman in Refrigerators" trope and has done much to highlight bad/sexist handling of female characters in comics. I also notice that like Neil, she's really cool about answering fan questions on her Tumblr.

Anyway, I must go bedwards, but I hope you enjoy the recs...