[ SECRET POST #2575 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2575 ⌋

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

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02.
[Sleepy Hollow]


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03.
[Aneurin Barnard]


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04.
[Trailer Park Boys]


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05.
[Orphan Black]


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06.
[Sherlock (BBC)]


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07.
[Agents of SHIELD, Torchwood]


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08.
[Saiyuki]


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09.
[Blake's 7]


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10.
[The L Word]

















Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 050 secrets from Secret Submission Post #368.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 1 - 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.

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Official advertise your fandom-related comms/events thread.

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2. ONE POST PER USER under this thread.
3. What IS allowed: roleplay advertisements, fandom comms, fandom events, things like that.
4. What is NOT allowed: anything for profit, any kind of fic/art commissions, seeking 1-on-1 RP, that kind of thing.

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Official clickables thread.

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1. NO huge images or columns of images that require scrolling, please.
2. ONE POST PER USER under in this thread.
3. If you're going to post, try to at least help the others.

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General comments:

(If the thread contains triggery content please post as 2nd comment so it collapses!)

New PowerPuff Girls Special

[(Anonymous)]

Just a reminder, it comes on in about thirty minutes. This thread is to voice your thoughts on it when it airs and after. Unfortunately, I don't have a link to a stream.

favorite fic in your favorite genre

[(Anonymous)]

Originally I was going to ask for your all time favorite h/c fic, and I'd still like to hear that, but I think it'd be fun to open it up to all genres. So what is your favorite fic from your favorite genre. That one h/c fic that is the epitome of your idea h/c, or the mystery or romance or fluff that is just in your opinion the ultimate of the genre.

Any fandom, obvs.

Idle musings

[(Anonymous)]

Having watched too much HGTV with my sister, I'm now wondering how many contractors who do major renovation have uncovered a body over the course of their career.

What unnecessary questions are you pondering, F!S?

Tech Woes

[kaijinscendre]

Yesterday I tried to burn a DVD. Took 9 hours to process and then I did something wrong. So I decided to try again today and let it do it while I was at work. Came home and I had an error message. So I am trying again. Hopefully it won't take 9 hours.

What are some of your most frustrating tech woes?

How little would someone have to pay to have sex with you

[(Anonymous)]

Everyone has their price, what's yours?

Really honestly people thorw out seven figures as the start, but seriously? high four would be for your average person three months pay for half an hours work on your back - if that money was actually waved in front of my face I would have difficulty saying no.

[starphotographs]

Hi, FS! :D

Here's an awesome short film:
http://youtu.be/sQ4BB7vpJgo

And now I'm all excited, like I just started watching a really great movie. But there's no rest of it to watch :(

The Music Thread

[dethtoll]

In a big cyberpunk mood.

Perturbator ft. Lueur Verte - Mirage

Neon Vandal - ShadowDancer

Noir Deco - Future Noir

If you could rewrite the ending of a series...

[(Anonymous)]

...what series, and why? Why is your idea better?

(Also okay: major arcs, twists, etc)

"All fiction—even science fiction—is a subset of fantasy."

[agentcthulhu]

(This interview has been out a few years now so I apologize if you've read it already.)

The sci-fi vs fantasy thread yesterday reminded me of an interview with Diane Duane where she was asked about sci-fi in her fantasy stories and fantasy in her sci-fi stories. Her answer was,

The science is always at the root for me. Originally, I thought I'd go into astronomy. When I was very young, a family friend gave me a subscription to Sky and Telescope and I was hooked. Unfortunately, I hit the math and bounced. So I went to nursing school. As it was, I became extremely well-grounded in the physical sciences, and then I just spent years reading science for pleasure. That may sound bizarre to some people, but Isaac Asimov and Carl Sagan had something to do with it—when you grow up in the golden age of two of the great science popularizers of our time, it's very hard not to get the message.

But that groundwork remains very important to me, and it's always come with me in the fantasy work. There is a rule for fantasy writers: The more truth you mix in with a lie, the stronger it gets. Certainly for a science fiction writer—and God knows I did enough Star Trek to know it has to be more than technobabble—you have to know what you are talking about. As a result, I did about 3 months worth of research in hyperdimensional physics for my first Star Trek novel and included a bibliography. One of the people I cited now uses that book as a teaching tool in his classes at Princeton.

But as for switching gears between the two, I think they're both parts of the same spectrum. In fact, for my money, science fiction is just a subset of fantasy. All fiction is a subset of fantasy, and science fiction is just a kind that's a little more persnickety about its definitions. I prefer Sprague de Camp's old definition, that a science fiction story is merely a human story with a human problem and a human solution that could not happen without its scientific content. Now, if you just plug the word fantasy into the gaps, the cloak covers so much more of the ground that science fiction easily fits inside.

The emphasis is mine. Do you agree that all fiction is a subset of fantasy, or do you subscribe more to the notion that fantasy and science fiction are both sub-genres of speculative fiction? Why? (I have no horse in this race so I might not reply to everyone.)

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Games thread!