[ SECRET POST #2663 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2663 ⌋

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

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[Stardust]


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03. [posted twice]


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[Elementary]


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[El Goonish Shive]


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07. http://i62.tinypic.com/29cxt2a.jpg
[Hadaka Shitsuji, censored porn]


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08. http://i.imgur.com/XGwxaCR.jpg
[cosplay; no sex but definitely nsfw]


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[Art by: http://www.deviantart.com/art/Lets-Sing-Together-338248375]


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17. [SPOILERS for Soul Eater]



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18. [SPOILERS for captain america: the winter soldier]
[WARNING for rape]



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19. [WARNING for suicide]



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20. [WARNING for incest, possible non-con]

















Notes:

Late at work again, sorry. Should be back to normal by next week!

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Comments

Re: Fridging, and how not to do it

[feotakahari]

"Then, have the protagonist think about her more than himself. That seems obvious, but I think some of the 'fridging' complaints are when male characters take a tragedy and make it all about them and their own feelings. Who else is affected by the female character's death? Etc."

To be honest, I think this is actually the biggest issue--when the death or suffering of a female character is approached ENTIRELY in terms of her love interest's loss. Give him some affection for her as a character, not as a possession or an appendage, and you'll have avoided the worst of it.

Re: Fridging, and how not to do it

[a_potato]

Yeah, I've definitely been focused on doing that, but I'm not sure that it's enough. I worry that I ought to just take another route entirely.

Re: Fridging, and how not to do it

[feotakahari]

Hmm . . . It seems like you don't want to use a friend. Would a mentor do? Someone older and wiser whom the protagonist looked up to?

Re: Fridging, and how not to do it

[a_potato]

I was thinking of doing that. But as it stands, his mentors are female, so I still find myself running into the same problem, ha!

Honestly, I'm realizing that I probably just need to stop thinking so hard.

DA

[(Anonymous)]

I never quite understood how it's possible to make one's reaction to someone else's death not mostly about their own feelings. You can't do anything for the dead person and their feelings. The natural course of mourning is really about working through your own pain and your feelings about losing someone. That's real life, and I don't think fiction should ever imply that it's bad to make mourning all about your feelings just because a disproportionate amount of it is done by men at the expense of women.

Re: DA

[feotakahari]

Well, the logical extreme of it is when a female character gets raped, and the narrative is all over her boyfriend's angst at this happening to his girlfriend, but doesn't really bother with HER angst at what's been done to her. I think the way deaths of girlfriends are written can feel similar--like the girlfriend doesn't matter in and of herself, she only matters as a girlfriend, and as something the boyfriend has lost.