[ 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

[(Anonymous)]

There's this amazingly pathetic sense of entitlement from some fans - that once a work is out there, it belongs to them and the intentions of the writer are of no consequence.

The writer created the work, the writer is Word of God. Even when you hate what they did, can't believe your ship wasn't endgame or that all the guys aren't fucking each other stupid, it's still the writer's sandbox.

Of course you can ignore the parts of the story you don't like, but to say the author is dead is...beyond wrong.

[(Anonymous)]

Entitlement? Of COURSE they are entitled to interpret something however they want. Especially as fans. Once a work is out there, it IS free for interpretation. It exists independently of the author at that point.

Not that authors' claims don't matter, but as far as I'm concerned, authors can be wrong, too. If Anne Rice had gone back, like she said she might, and wrote another Lestat story where he finds Jesus... I would still think that was out of character and incorrect, even if she is the one who created him in the first place.

[skippydelicious]

The writer is not god. The writer is a fallible human being (and worse, at the mercy of the decisions of both their editor and publisher who may also insist on certain changes to make the text readable -- Are they now pantheon?). The writer may dictate events that occur within the work, but it is up to the reader to find their own meaning in those events. If the writer wished to be god, they should have just been a daydreamer. Once the book is off to the printing press, the writer is dead as far as their part in it goes (unless they bring out a sequel or do a rewrite, but alas then the writer just dies all over again).

[cbrachyrhynchos]

Actually I think authors and fans who get "word of god" are entitled. Rowling is a publishing singularity in that she can fart on one of her books, and it will get picked up by the mass media as their literary news of the week.

For most authors, if they get published or interviewed at all, it's going to be in genre publications or in conference discussions in front of a few dozen audience members. They have better things to do with their few minutes of time and screen-inches of coverage than to rubber-stamp or sink your ship.