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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2013-12-10 08:51 pm

[ SECRET POST #2534 ]


⌈ Secret Post #2534 ⌋

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

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[Doctor Who]


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03.
[Guild Wars 2]


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04.
[Perry Mason]


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05.
[Sleepy Hollow]


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06.
[My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic; gorefic]


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[Marco Mengoni/Max Pezzali (883)]


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[Hetalia]


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[Once Upon a Time and Uncanny X-Men]


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[Borderlands 2]


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[Elementary]


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[Rise of the Guardians. Art by Rufftoon.]


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[Mabinogi]


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14.
[minecraft/C418]


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15.
[The Big Bang Theory]








Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 038 secrets from Secret Submission Post #362.
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.

(Anonymous) 2013-12-11 03:49 pm (UTC)(link)
With some things it can throw you out of the story if you include something wrong, even if it's a minor detail. (Like a throwaway line about how goat hair yarn is called angora, by someone who should know it's not)

It came up in an old scans_daily post about Fables, where the comic was about how Rapunzel was so helpless with her quick-growing hair in modern life and how could anyone hide/manage long hair? There was instantly about three pages of replies from people that had long hair about how to manage and hide it. Headscarves. Tuck it into the back of a jacket. Wigs. Braids. All sorts of ideas, pretty much anything but have it loose and free-flowing down your back for the mundanes to watch grow. It was fairly obvious that in a comic plot about long hair, no one involved had ever had long hair.

Basically people tend to divide fiction into "the fictional parts" and "the reality parts". Like if you have a vampire couple in New York most people will not go "Oh, obviously since there's vampires it's a fictional alternate history where New York City is actually located in modern day Utah. Duh." You have to spell that shit out.

It's how stuff can develop fanon ideas that people confuse with reality or just accept as canon (How many time has the phrase "real vampires don't sparkle" been uttered, usually using something like Dracula or Buffy to indicate that sparkly vampires don't fit with the accepted headcanon of the person?)

So I can see someone wanting someone with a better idea of the physical stuff involved to beta, like the smoking-beta who commented above.