[ SECRET POST #2499 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2499 ⌋

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

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02.
(Questionable Content)


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03.
[Transformers]


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04.
[Sherlock Holmes/C. Auguste Dupin]


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05.
[Pacific Rim]


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06.
[Obscurus Lupa Presents]


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07.
[k-pop]


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08.
[Ian McKellan and Patrick Stewart]


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09.
[Neil Gaiman, Doctor Who]


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10.
[Teen Wolf]














Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 043 secrets from Secret Submission Post #357.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

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04. http://i.imgur.com/hzNhqUi.jpg
[Sherlock Holmes/C. Auguste Dupin]

[(Anonymous)]

I totally understand this, OP. Reading Poe made me appreciate ACD more. But I already loved Sherlock and couldn't really get into Dupin at all :/

[(Anonymous)]

I have never seen a secret about C. Auguste Dupin! Squeeeeeeee!

But I know what you mean. That thrill you get from seeing the genesis of a really famous work of fiction and trying to view it the way people viewed it back then, without hindsight...it's so cool!

[(Anonymous)]

Oh I know. I love that kind of "see the precursors" stuff. But IMO ACD improved on Dupin so so so much. Holmes would never be so insufferably pompous as to spend four pages bullshitting pretentiously about how px = py and all that rot instead of simply explaining that he made a guess and then endeavored to verify it, or turning "then I thought, hey, what if the nail was already broken?" into a mind-bogglingly clever revelation.

Okay, maybe he would if he were writing the first detective story ever, but I still roll my eyes at Dupin.

[intrigueing]

I am still somewhat disappointed Doyle never made any tongue-in-cheek references to orangutans (I'm sorry, "Ourang-Outans") in any of his stories.

Also, Watson mentioning "I felt rather indignant at having two characters whom I had admired treated in this cavalier style" after Holmes bashes Dupin is one of my favorite lines in any book ever. ONE OF US. ONE OF US.