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[ SECRET POST #2435 ]

⌈ Secret Post #2435 ⌋

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[Picture is the drawing of a black pony/horse in the style of the cartoon "My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic", with red eyes, the drawing of a pink pentagram on its flank, black wings, red wings, glowing hair of all the colors of the rainbow and holding a keyblade (item that looks and sometimes works like a giant key but also is a sword-like weapon from the videogame series "Kingdom Hearts") with magic atop a piece of rock on space. The picture has the following caption on the bottom: "Princess Sugarlicious Bonquisha Shanana Sparkle Doombringer The Third (C) Dream 2013"]

If your fic summary says "an OC" or "some OCs", I'll probably read it. If it says "my OC"? I'll take a pass.

I'm seriously starting to think "my OC" is the non-furry equivalent of "my fursona"--the only difference in the kind of stories they star in is that fursonas are more likely to fuck one other character, whereas Original Characters called "my OC" are more likely to fuck every character the author thinks is hot. Sometimes all at once.

[Picture is a tumblr post. The user's icon has been replaced with, uh, a green bell pepper? Or something that looks like it.]

There's this fanartist for one of my fandoms on tumblr I used to follow. Before they had really cute (and hot) ideas for my One True Pairing and drew them. Her art wasn't perfect but it was really adorable so I liked it.

Now, though, she's become much more popular, and has gone along to draw really weird things for my One True Pairing and hasn't done anything from her earlier Alternate Universes that I loved. The worst thing, though, is it seems her art got worse.

I unfollowed her because I realized I no longer wanted her dozens of doodles on my dash anymore. People still reblog her stuff and I cringe every time.

Too long; didn't read: Abloobloobloo, I want stuff I like.

[Picture is Ramsay Snow from the TV show "Game of Thrones". He is a man with light skin, possibly hazel eyes and short brown hair. He is wearing brown, warm clothes and is smiling kinda creepily but very enthusiastically.]

I once had a sex dream where he and his pack of feral dogs chased me naked through the woods.

I still get off thinking about it.

[Picture is the cast of the movie "The World's End", with the actors Martin Freeman (marked with blue by the secret maker), Paddy Considine, Simon Pegg, Nick Frost (marked with pink by the secret maker) and Eddie Marsan?. They are five men walking all side by side in a park or on a street with a large tree.]

Saw the movie expecting to fancy Martin Freeman's character... And came out with a big ol' crush on Nick Frost's. Apparently I have a thing for big guys wrestle-slamming robots?

Bonus Secret: Nick Frost's acting was amazing too!

[Picture is the cast from the videogame "Saints Row IV". They are (from left to right, top to bottom): Matt Miller, CID, Kinzie Kensington, Benjamin King, Johnny Gat, Pierce Washington, Keith David, Asha Odekar and Shaundi. They are wearing science-fiction-esque suits.]

I got way more emotionally attached to this story and these characters than I did for any of the big "serious" games that have come out over the past few years.

I didn't cry during Bioshock Infinite, The Last Of Us or Mass Effect 3, but saying goodbye to the SR universe at the end of this one made me tear up.

Bonus: The Mass Effect parody bits made me realize that I like these guys better than any group of characters that Bioware has ever created.

Edited (Thank you anons!) 2013-09-03 00:09 (UTC)

[Picture is a photograph of the writer George R.R. Martin (an old man with light skin and a white hair and beard wearing eyeglasses, a black cap and a blue shirt with dark denim pants and suspenders with the comic text bubble saying "It sucks!", the cover of the book "The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones" (a naked man jutting out of a city) and the cover of the "Shades of Gray" book (a masquerade ball or carnival silver mask).]

I'm beginning to agree with some less-than-thrilled authors' opinion on fanfiction. Fanfic should be about celebrating the original world of someone else and sharing stories about it with similarly obsessed people - not money. I've seen people on my f-list write Real Person Fic and then sell it as gay erotica story.

Fan fic is all fun and games until you switch the names and publish it as an original. I get the argument that nothing can be original anymore, everything is derivative, but writing a fanfic and then transforming it and making money off of it is fucked up and it's like a reverse of the writing process.

Go create your own characters, this is not cool. Seriously.

[Picture is the covers of the books "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" and "A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Ersatz Elevator". In Harry Potter, there is a child with light skin, short dark hair and wearing eyeglasses, a red cape? and a long-sleeved blue shirt and blue pants with light gray sneakers/tennis shoes. There is also a child with long reddish brown hair, light skin and a pink sweatshirt. They are both smiling and riding an hippogriff. In A Series of Unfortunate Events, there is a woman? wearing a long-sleeved purple dress climbing an elevator stone shaft with a rope made of handkerchiefs while someone looks on from the door. She has short dark hair and is wearing light purple tights, matching the borders of her dress.]

The "A Series of Unfortunate Events" books were a part of my childhood (and influenced my dreams of becoming a writer) a thousand times more than the "Harry Potter" books, and I think the "A Series of Unfortunate Events" books are, objectively, much better written. (They're more intelligent, at any rate.)

Bonus Secret: These two are my favorites from each series, and yes, Prisoner of Azkaban was my favorite movie.

[Picture is a bunch of children's hands (still attached to their owners) holding up a sphere decorated as if it were the planet Earth. The hands appear to run the gamut of human skin pigmentation.]

I think the conflict on Fandom Secret between people who believe in "social justice" and people who hate "social justice" is based almost entirely around strawmen. If both sides bothered listening to each other, I suspect they'd agree on at least fifty percent of the relevant issues.

Tumblr is still a shrieking hive of insanity, though.

[Picture is the logos of the webcomics Monster Pop! Homestuck, Ava's Demon, Olympus Overdrive.]

I'm starting to think that certain webcomics have no idea what the concept of pacing actually means. It's an underestimated element, but bad pacing is deadly.

Secret because: I'm not sure if it's really important or I just make a too big of a deal about it. Every time I bring it up, I get told I mean update schedule.

[Picture is... God from the movie "Monty Python's The Meaning of Life"? He is holding up a spherical planet Earth and a cubic planet Earth. The sun or a halo is shining behind him. He is depicted as an old man with olive skin, a large bald head and long white hair, mustache and beard. He is examining both planets thoughtfully.]

I'm a huge fan of Monty Python, but I found this film painfully unfunny and depressing as fuck. I have literally no idea how anyone can laugh at the scene in the restaurant.

[Picture is the cover of the movie "Clue", showing a mansion, people behind each open window and the words:

Was it... Coronel Mustard, Mrs. Peacock, Mr. Green, Professor Plum, The Butler, Mrs. White, Miss Scarlet? In the... Lounge, Dining Room, Ballroom, Hall, Library, Conservatory, Biliard Room, Kitchen? With the... Lead pipe, knife, wrench, rope, candlestick, revolver? Clue. It's not just a game anymore.]

This is, unironically, my favorite movie of all time.

(RIP Eileen Brennan)

SPOILERS FOR THE MOVIE PACIFIC RIM

[Picture is Chuck Hansen? from the movie Pacific Rim. He is a young man with light skin, short brown hair and wearing a green armored battle suit. He looks surprised and tired, with his eyes looking reddened from irritation/red-rimmed.]

He's DEAD. Fandom needs to GET THE FUCK OVER IT. Chuck Hansen is dead. He was in a nuclear strike zone under thousands of tonnes of water. He. Is. Dead. The writers have explicitly confirmed his DEADNESS.

STOP. HARASSING. THE. CREATORS. IN. FUCKING. TUMBLR SPEAK. WITH STUPID QUESTIONS. ON WHY HE HAD TO DIE.

BECAUSE THAT'S THE STORY YOU RACIST CUNTS.

Stop spamming questions on his love life. His virginity. And all your stupid "but why did our blond asshole character have to die it ws so unneeded and a cheap copout".

Because. ALL. but ONE of the secondary characters is dead. And I can't help but notice you only care about the caucasian ones. YOU STUPID FUCKS.

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[ SECRET POST #2435 ]

Transcripts!

Secret 1 - General Fandom

Secret 2 - Fanart

Secret 3 - Game of Thrones

Secret 4 - The World's End

Secret 5 - Saints Row IV

Secret 6 - Fanfiction, professional writing

Secret 7 - Harry Potter, A Series of Unfortunate Events

Secret 8 - Fandom Secrets

Secret 9 - Webcomics

Secret 10 - Monty Python's The Meaning of Life

Secret 11 - Clue (movie)

Not Secret (HUGE SPOILERS FOR PACIFIC RIM)