[ SECRET POST #2575 ]

[case]

⌈ 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.

Comments

[fscom]

01. http://i.imgur.com/95Af7Ot.jpg

[morieris]

I read this and For the Win when I was in High School...I got a kick out of them.

That's...actually a good question.

[nyxelestia]

I mean, I'm more in favor of Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom and FTW than Little Brother, but now that I think about it, none of those really have much fandom.

Which is a damn shame because I think large fandom culture would have a blast with these books and the kind of messages they send. I know FTW had some fantastic diversity in race and gender and had some great perspectives on modern economics and class differences. And all these books are free online!

Damn, the more I think about it, the less it makes sense.

[morieris]

& I know this isn't by the same author, but I also feel this way about Ready Player One.

[leisuretime]

I liked Ready Player One an awful lot.

[sabotabby]

I just finished that and immediately went looking for fic.

:(

[(Anonymous)]

I dunno about a fandom, but man I loved this book

[(Anonymous)]

Funny story: For a little while I was reading this and Hero by Perry Moore at the same time, and during the capture/questioning scenes of Little Brother, I spent about 10 pages wondering why superheroes were allowing this before realizing I'd mixed up my books.

[sabotabby]

It's assigned reading at the school where I teach, so hopefully it'll catch on amongst the young'uns.

[blueonblue]

I don't think the characters are the kind that inspire fanfic. A lot of people like Little Brother, but it doesn't inspire love. Also, outside Boing Boing, there is quite a bit of Cory Doctorow hate.

[morieris]

Also, outside Boing Boing, there is quite a bit of Cory Doctorow hate.

How so?

[blueonblue]

Because the internet is full of hate. :)

Many people find his persona irritating and the system for comments was unpopular (disemvoweling & Teresa Nielsen Hayden), but the hate didn't really take off until about 5 years ago when Violet Blue was kicked off Boing Boing and her posts were vanished. It was seen as pretty hypocritical. Internet peoples can carry a grudge.

OP

[(Anonymous)]

Fanfic's lovely, but I'm really into fandom for the meta, so... I don't really know. Is there a Guide To Jump-Starting A Small Fandom somewhere?

[(Anonymous)]

Because they haven't made a movie or TV series out of it, that's why.

[(Anonymous)]

OHMYGOD I LOVED THAT FUCKING BOOK

have you read the sequel? is it good?

OP

[(Anonymous)]

Sequel's lovely, yes! Granted, at times it totally reads as The Fictionalized Autobiography Of Cory Doctorow Himself, but that was the case for the first book (and if you're not following his blog it's not really noticeable).

Still OP

[(Anonymous)]

Oh, and there is a lot of repeated pointing-out that characters from the first book are having PTSD-like reactions, which is a thing (sometimes the "oh god suddenly anxiety because I recognize something from The Time That Happened" was obviously there for plot purposes, which was inevitable, because writing PTSD for the sake of PTSD gets old really really fast and would have been cut). This might be good, this might not be. But the book's Available Free Online, so you can at least cram the first few chapters of the book into your head to see if you'll like it.