[ SECRET POST #275 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #275 ⌋

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

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Comments

[onesto-hotel.livejournal.com]

OMG, Zetsubou secrets. (And lots of Phoenix Wright)

4. Amen. Except "Anything Goes" is MY favorite musical...I can't stand most musicals from Rogers & Hammerstein onward. I prefer stuff from the 1930s and earlier.

13. I gave a passing mention to Zelda timeline theories in my application to the University of Michigan and they accepted me. I worked a bunch of nerdly old horror-film characters into my essay for the University of Chicago and ALMOST got in (I was waitlisted). But I don't know how doing an essay dealing strictly with fandom would go over. I can't see much room for middle ground...it'd either fail spectacularly or be an amazing success.

16. Oh god...*hides*. Poor Feenie. It'd be scary to be related to Gant, even if it is only hypothetical.

17. ZETSUBOUSHITAAAAAAAA!!!!!

Seriously though, I'm addicted to the show AND the song.

20. I would probably do that if I were into roleplaying, since I do watch a TON of old movies. That's not to say fandom influences haven't wormed their way in a bit (like how I kept slashing Pretorius/Frankenstein while watching "Bride of Frankenstein").

31. Aww, I'm gonna miss him too. Even the people who say they won't miss him probably still feel at least a little sad about it on the inside.

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[(Anonymous)]

20. I would probably do that if I were into roleplaying, since I do watch a TON of old movies. That's not to say fandom influences haven't wormed their way in a bit (like how I kept slashing Pretorius/Frankenstein while watching "Bride of Frankenstein").

Nice. I spent much of my childhood obsessed with old monster movies, and I can see it.

Re: 20 OP

[iamadoughnut.livejournal.com]

There's a ton of queer theory about how the story of Frankenstein is homoerotic, or coded as the quest of homosexual men creating life without women.

There's a good book on the subject called "Monsters in the Closet," if you can find it.

[iamadoughnut.livejournal.com]

20. You think that Pretorius/Frankenstein wasn't intentional? Just a tad? Seriously, James Whale. That's not fandom, that's perceptiveness.

Okay, a little fandom, maybe.

[onesto-hotel.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but what about Rick and Renault in "Casablanca"? I entirely blame fandom for letting my imagination run amuck with Renault's lines...

I dunno, maybe Pretorius/Frankenstein was intentional. Still, just because James Whale was gay doesn't necessarily mean he was running around trying to cram subtext everywhere. (That doesn't change the fact that Pretorious was amazingly gay, though...)

[iamadoughnut.livejournal.com]

That's... not really what I was getting at with James Whale. I mean, no, gay directors don't cram in subtext. Some would argue that they don't actually have to do anything special, and that queer artists, writers, and filmmakers don't have to do anything special in order to produce work that can then be read as queer. But more specifically, mad scientist creation stories are always coded as gay for a number of reasons, and combined with James Whale as director... well. Bride of Frankenstein has been widely analyzed with this in mind (as it is far campier than the original); here's (http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/19/19_bride1.html) one online analysis, but there are tons out there to be had.

Rick and Renault were pretty flirty, but yeah, I'd say that one is more fandom influence. (Rick/Ilsa/Victor OT3)

[onesto-hotel.livejournal.com]

Ah, okay, I see now. (I seem to recall reading that same article a couple years ago...) Mad scientist tempts other mad scientist away from his wife so that the two of them can create another person. Yup.

Casablanca OT3...^_^ Part of me feels bad to be mentally subverting great films like that, but the other part of me is immensely amused.

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[(Anonymous)]

I get the feeling that more liberal arts schools would think highly of that than ivy league would, so I'm not really willing to take the chance.

Especially since most of my fandoms are anime. I mean, if I wrote about how a TV show like Numb3rs inspires me to become a better mathematician (if I'd actually want to major in math or something) that'd be acceptable, but what can I say about anime? That's like nerdy x100.