[ SECRET POST #2620 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2620 ⌋

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

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02.
[My Mad Fat Diary]


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03.
[Stargate Atlantis]


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04.
[Andromeda]


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05.
[True Detective]


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06.
[Samurai Flamenco]


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07.
[Star Trek: DS9]


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08.
[Supernatural]


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09.
[Wild Adapter]


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10.
[The Bletchley Circle]


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11. [ns]


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12.
[Junior Prom - Prelinger Archives Video]


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 015 secrets from Secret Submission Post #374.
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

So what's the deal with Welcome to Night Vale?

[(Anonymous)]

I know that Welcome to Night Vale is a podcast of a radio show(?) for some strange town. So why is there so much drama over the appearance of the characters? You'd think that this would be the one medium where anything goes, as far as fandom representations are concerned.

Re: So what's the deal with Welcome to Night Vale?

[sarillia]

It's implied that one of the characters is Hispanic and there are a lot of arguments over whether or not he's dark enough in fan art. Then the other main character isn't described at all. So there are some reasonable arguments about how it's kind of questionable for everyone to default to him being white and why not try picturing him as something else and then some not so reasonable ones about how if you picture him white then you're racist.

I'm not going to claim to be unbiased on this. I hate both extreme sides of this argument. The ones creating race wank and the ones who ignore the (yes, less noticeable) valid arguments and caricature the whole fandom.

Re: So what's the deal with Welcome to Night Vale?

[(Anonymous)]

I'm pretty sure the creators have said they'll never give a description of what Cecil looks like, and I think that some people think that because you can interpret him as any race, you shouldn't interpret him as white. Some people probably got very attached to their mental images of him and saw him as the representation that they don't get in other media--and kind of lost sight of the fact that "open to interpretation" means just that. And it kind of blew up from there. That's my theory anyway, and it's probably just part of it.

Re: So what's the deal with Welcome to Night Vale?

[insanenoodlyguy]

SJW's came in because somebody told them there was a show where a guy was in a gay relationship and that show was awesome (so far so good)

Unfortionately, being SJW's, once they were there, they started thinking in their sjw ways.

That guy the creators will deliberately not describe? You can't make him white! You can't ever make him white! Never mind that the creators are making it a point to make sure every interpretation from native american with three eyes to tentacle monster is somewhat possible! He. Can't. Be. White.

The other guy in said relationship (Carlos) whom the most canon said was he is "dark" and the most word of god will ever get to describing him is the voice actor for Cecil believing he's a person of color and also "A model in a lab coat"... HE HAS TO BE A CERTAIN SHADE OF DARK. IF YOU DON'T DRAW HIM DARK ENOUGH YOU ARE DOING IT WRONG. (I, for one, like to think of him as having brazillian features, a bit of european, hispanic, portugese and african all rolled together in the best way)

Me, I'm in it for the librarians. (don't attempt to hide in a tree. There are no trees in the library)