[ SECRET POST #2478 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2478 ⌋

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

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[rune factory 4]


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03.
[Law & Order]


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04.
[Wander Over Yonder]


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05.
[Breaking Bad]


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06.
[Transformers: IDW Generation One]


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07.
(Panic! at the Disco)


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08.
[Luke Evans as Bard the Bowman in "The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug"]


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09.
[league of legends pro teams - team curse]




















Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 027 secrets from Secret Submission Post #354.
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

Re: Misaimed Fandom

[cbrachyrhynchos]

People who love Lord of the Rings for it's "worldbuilding" (never mind the anachronisms and paper-thin social structures) ignoring the introduction to the Silmarilion and Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics.

Re: Misaimed Fandom

[cbrachyrhynchos]

I'm also still convinced that Evangelion is a dumb kaiju series wearing psychoanalytic/occultist/magickkkkal drag rather than a psychoanalytic/occultist/magick narrative about self-realization wearing kaiju drag.

Re: Misaimed Fandom

[scrubber]

There are still people in the world who think the Christian elements in NGE mean anything at all and that. Is.

Sad.

Or, it didn't mean anything in the series but it totally means something in the movie. Yeah dude TOTALLY.

Re: Misaimed Fandom

[(Anonymous)]

The title of the thread isn't meant to be self-fulfilling bb.

Re: Misaimed Fandom

[(Anonymous)]

Oh my god, this. If I have to hear that line about Tolkien "only creating a world for his languages to play in" or whatever again...

Re: Misaimed Fandom

[intrigueing]

No. Sorry. Disagree entirely. Preferences do not work that way, and you are (hopefully just by accident) talking about preferences, not interpretation or logical argument, and your comment here is (again, hopefully by accident) telling people their preferences are wrong and they are wrong for liking something. Some people really do subscribe to death of the author, and it actually is possible to worldbuild by accident.

Re: Misaimed Fandom

[cbrachyrhynchos]

It is a misinterpretation because Tolkien wasn't in the business of creating a credible geography, history, or anthropology. He was creating literature-within-literature. The general method is described in detail in his insistence that Beowulf should be analyzed as literature and not a cryptically coded window into the history of Geats and language of Anglo-Saxons, and the specific method is laid out in the introduction to the Silmarillion.

It's not a preference, it's a fundamental misunderstanding of what Tolkien's fantasy does. What it does is tell stories of, and I'll quote the man himself on this, "Fall, Mortality and Machine." The setting is built around the conflict, not the conflict to the setting (as is the case with SF&F that does rigorously worldbuild.)

EDIT: To put it another way, it's like calling Star Trek hard science fiction because it had non-chemical propulsion drives, portable medical diagnostics, and handheld communicators. (Never mind the chicken-egg problem that those are three things invented by lifelong trekkies.) Hard science fiction wasn't exactly the point, and Star Trek never let plausibility get in the way of a good yarn.