[ SECRET POST #2584 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2584 ⌋

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

01.
[Danball Senki Wars]


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02.
[Harry Potter]


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03.
[Burn Notice]


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04.
[The Island of Doctor Moreau]


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05.
[Papers, Please]


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06.
[Star Trek: The Next Generation]


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07.
[Pretty Little Liars]


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08.
[KILL LA KILL]


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09.
[Labyrinth, The Hobbit]

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10.
[The Hobbit]


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11.
[The Hobbit]


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12.
[The Kiss of the Spider Woman]














Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 029 secrets from Secret Submission Post #369.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[feotakahari]

I've read a few books that respond to this one, like Dr. Franklin's Island and An Island Called Moreau. The commonality seems to be that the narrative's sympathy lies with the animals. I don't think people are primed right now to be scared by the idea of lesser beings rising up in a mocking imitation of real people. (It's like how Lovecraft is getting less relevant as people get less and less scared of people who look different and speak a different language.)

[brandiweed.livejournal.com]

I didn't get that vibe that strongly out of the original novel at all. Moreau himself may have that attitude, but the narrator sure didn't (he seemed more reluctant to take the elitist attitude the other humans on the island had, and only did to some extent for self-preservation); by the end of the novel he tends to feel that regular humans are Not So Different (to use the TVTropes phrase).

[feotakahari]

Maybe I'm somewhat jaundiced in that I read Dr. Franklin's Island first. It's in some ways a counterargument to that strain in the original, so reading the original afterwards, that strain stuck out more.

[kamino_neko]

by the end of the novel he tends to feel that regular humans are Not So Different

But that's not a compliment to the animals, but an insult to the humans. 'We're not as above them as we like to think...at our core, we're just base, savage animals, too.'

[escriboconundedo]

it's odd to me that you say that lovecraft is getting less relevant, because over the past few years, i've seen an explosion of interest in his stiff -- not the weird racist stuff (the fuck was up with his hatref for eskimos? i just can't even), but the stuff with the ancients and elder gods, and the poe-esque stories.

when you say 'relevant,' do you just mean 'applicable to modern experience?'

[feotakahari]

The modern stuff seems very in-name-only to me--it doesn't feel like it works upon the same themes or the same fears that Lovecraft did. (Nyarko or Nyaruko or however you spell it is the logical endpoint of this, but it seems to apply even to more serious stuff.)

[escriboconundedo]

okay, so when speaking of relevance you're referencing current works thst were influenced by him or that are considered to be lovecraftian?

[feotakahari]

Yeah. Are you saying that more people are reading the original Lovecraft stories? (I haven't really noticed that.)

[escriboconundedo]

yes, ayt least from what i've seen. maybe i just run in strange circles...