[ SECRET POST #2596 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2596 ⌋

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

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02.
[Star Trek: The Next Generation]


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03.
[The Croods]


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04.
[Elementary]


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05.
[Final Fantasy XIII]


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06.
[SCP Foundation]


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07.
[Philip Seymour Hoffman]


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08.
[Twin Peaks]


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09.
[Richard Armitage]


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10.
[Reign]


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11.
[The Hobbit]


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12.
[Hunger Games]


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13.
[Don't Hug Me I'm Scared]


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14.
[Teen Wolf]


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15.
[Panic! at The Disco/Dallon Weekes]















Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 063 secrets from Secret Submission Post #371.
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.

Comments

Re: Inspired by secret #12

[jaybie_jarrett]

I have a female character who I personally think is pretty cool,a kinda badass battle medic girl, who also happens to be protective of her older brother who has dated a few girls who mistreated him. She isn't stiflingly over protective but has no problems privately calling out a girlfriend who doesn't treat him well. This is far from being her only trait she is also interested in psychology and help some of their relatives in their big screwed up family by giving them advice and letting them vent.

I worry that people will see the fact that she defends her brother as sexist or problematic when I personally just thought it would be cool to have an inverse of the 'protective older brother" trope in which the younger sister defends her older brother. Or see the brother as problematic because "how dare you show a guy getting mistreated by women in a relationship".

Also it would kind of annoy me if readers construed the brother as a "manchild who can't take care of himself" when he actually has a logical reason for his dating problem, he was raised in a household with a mentally ill smothering mother , an alcoholic abusive father and a highly manipulative emotionally abusive aunt.

Also I worry that the protagonists' protective streak will be seen as sexist when it comes to trying to protect his friends (one is female) from his kind who has powers they don't.

Those are a few of my worries.

Re: Inspired by secret #12

[(Anonymous)]

The "protective older sister" is a trope I don't think I've ever seen before. It would certainly be interesting to read!

I just really like it when writers take tropes that are gender-exclusive, and swap them. I think it would be really interesting to have more variety with female villains, and have some that are truly frightening and intimidating and have incomprehensible morals & motives.

Re: Inspired by secret #12

[jaybie_jarrett]

She's a younger sister, but thanks.

Re: Inspired by secret #12

[(Anonymous)]

I don't know if this helps you at all, but I can tell you from a RL perspective that there's probably a reason this isn't common in fiction: IRL I tried very hard to be a protective older sis, but it backfired when, the second my back was turned, whoever was giving him trouble would pile on extra hard because "you need your sister to take care of you, huh?". Which, yes, is usually the case with most bully situations where somebody tries to step in, but what breaks my heart TO THIS DAY is that he still resents me not only for the fallout, but for trying in the first place.

Not to say that my experience is universal or any such thing, but just ... yeah, it's very problematic and writing about that won't just be a challenge from imagining reader reactions but also to write realistic CHARACTER reactions.