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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2014-02-10 06:55 pm

[ SECRET POST #2596 ]


⌈ 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.

Re: Secret #1: Manic Pixie Girl

(Anonymous) 2014-02-11 06:15 pm (UTC)(link)
People have gotten carried away with the term and are using it far too loosely. They are applying it to any female characters who are quirky, even the ones who aren't love interests or don't exist to help the male protagonist and might be far better classified as "wacky best friend" or "free-spirited heroine."

It's like people complaining about "Mary Sue" being applied to "Any female character I don't like" instead of it's original, narrower definition of "Blatant self-insert who is overly perfect (or has only endearing flaws like 'clumsiness.')" It makes the subject hard to talk about when people are coming in with different ideas of what the term means and some think it's awful and possibly sexist and some see it as a perfectly valid concept and functional term and neither side understands where the other is coming from.