[ SECRET POST #2624 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2624 ⌋

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

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02.
[Outlander]


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03.
[The Walking Dead]


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04.
[How I Met Your Mother]


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05.
[Twitch Plays Pokemon]


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06.
[Batman, Kill La Kill, Borderlands]


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07.
[Overlord]


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08.
[Red Dwarf]


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09.
[Paranatural]


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10.
[Pitch Perfect]


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11.
[Insidious: Chapter 2]


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 053 secrets from Secret Submission Post #375.
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

[iceyred]

You are interrogating this secret from the wrong perspective. My first guess would have been a butthurt Harry/Ginny & Ron/Hermione shipper who snapped.

[mautradutor]

"You are interrogating this ____ from the wrong perspective."

I've seen this phrase used a couple of times here and it seems that it is being used in a way that is intended to be funny (or having fun at a real concept). But I'm not clear on that. What is the reference?

[(Anonymous)]

It's a reference to something Anne Rice once told people who were giving her book bad reviews on Amazon, iirc.

[mautradutor]

Thanks anonymous!

[(Anonymous)]

A bunch of people wrote negative reviews of one of Anne Rice's books, and she responded by writing up an explanation of why, in her opinion, they were all wrong to criticize her. This explanation included the phrase "You are interrogating this text from the wrong perspective", which has since then become a meme of sorts.

[mautradutor]

Thanks anonymous!

[(Anonymous)]

from here: http://fanlore.org/wiki/Anne_Rice

Interrogating the Text From the Wrong Perspective

In September 2004, Anne Rice posted a reply on Amazon to critics of her book "Blood Canticle", in which she rejected all negative reviews.[9] Many fans found Rice's response intemperate, jargonistic, and disconcerting, leading to amusing Amazon replies, professional author and editor commentary, and a Fandom Wank post which led to seven pages of comments and an number of icons. The New York Times wrote about it, under the title Fan power takes new meaning.

One line in particular — "interrogating the text from the wrong perspective" — is now a favorite catchphrase on Fandom Wank and elsewhere.[10][11] It is used ironically by fans to mock someone, either the original author of the text using authorial intent to trump what actually appears on the page, or another reader who assumes that there can be only one "correct" interpretation of the text. The text (fanfic or published writing) in question is usually problematic or badly written, and the mocked individual may be the lone defender. See also resistant reading.

[mautradutor]

Oh my gosh. Well, that's equal parts perplexing and hilarious. Thank you! And now I'm going to thank other anonymous commentators, as well.

[(Anonymous)]

To be fair, interrogating the text from the wrong perspective IS a thing. I mean, if you're reading Goodnight Moon as an auto maintenance manual, you're going to conclude that it is hands down the worst auto maintenance manual you've ever seen. Likewise for less-exaggerated scenarios.

[thistlechaser]

I would read more auto maintenance manuals if they were written like Goodnight Moon.