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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2014-04-18 07:35 pm

[ SECRET POST #2663 ]


⌈ Secret Post #2663 ⌋

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

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[Stardust]


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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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Re: Romantic Subplots

[personal profile] cbrachyrhynchos 2014-04-19 04:06 am (UTC)(link)
One of the better romantic plots I've read in science fiction lately was Best of All Possible Worlds by Karen Lord. It's a romance story without any of the usual comic or stupid shenanigans. Very little annoys me more than kissus interruptus or characters seething over throwaway love triangles.

If I remember right, FMC of Best of All Possible Worlds even has a light fling with a third party while still friends with MMC. And when FMC gets the prenuptual paperwork in the mail, she goes directly to MMC's house and says, "hey, I don't mind, but you should have mentioned it first."

It's the sort of build-up as to why I mildly ship Mako/Raleigh in Pacific Rim. He asks for an opinion, she gives a blunt and critical opinion, he nods and disagrees. In a Han/Leia template, they'd be insulting each other. I'm open to non-shipping them as well.

On the other hand I'm not opposed to sap, the story "Memory" in this anthology is epically sappy, while being a solid sci-fi story, and a bit disturbing in parts. (Possibly a better Dune than Dune.) Barnhill's The Insect and the Astronomer: A Love Story is one of my favorite fantasy shorts from last year:

The Insect has never been in love.

The Astronomer has never been alive.

It is important that you understand this.


I'm loving short stories because you can get away with a line like: "I needed your eyes so that I may see the reflection of the stars that I love in the eyes that I love." You can also have the Little Mermaid butcher the prince in an act of revenge without needing to justify an extended narrative.

Waffling turns me off. I'm playing around with Rosenkavalier which never waffles. The wooing is scrunched in a bit of recitive and a duet. It's arguably kicked of by the virginal but not entirely innocent Sophie, who reveals that she knows exactly who and what Octavian is, and is intrigued rather than offended by his reputation.

Re: Romantic Subplots

[personal profile] cbrachyrhynchos 2014-04-19 04:25 am (UTC)(link)
I'll also put in a plug for the underrated Hepburn/Tracey movie, Desk Set. The Engineer (Tracy) shows up at the Librarian's (Hepburn) office. The Engineer takes the Librarian onto the roof for an intelligence test. The Librarian punks him on his own test, (part 2)and it goes from there. Hepburn and Tracy are near the top of their game.