[ SECRET POST #2715 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2715 ⌋

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

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02.
[Tales of Innocence]


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03.
[Transamerica]


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04.
[Final Fantasy VIII]


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05.
[Interview with the Vampire]


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06.
[Andrew Lloyd Webber]


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07.
[Critical Miss]


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08.
[Great British Menu/Emily Watkins]


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09.
[Mike Malinin, Goo Goo Dolls]


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10.
[Pacific Rim]


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11.
[Star Trek TNG]


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12.
[Homestuck]


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13.
[The Man From Nowhere]













Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 058 secrets from Secret Submission Post #388.
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)]

(Can be fandom or not!) (and dumb is as dumb does when you misfire)

I don't understand social networks and using them (at least most of the time). On Twitter, I tweeted to a restaurant that I had a really good pizza. Ok cool. The business follows me, favs the tweet, retweet's the tweet (that poor Tweety Bird…) and then responds back "thank you, have you checked us out on yelp?"

I get the retweet and the fav, no problem. I find it weird to follow me since I never followed them (am I under obligation to?) and now I wonder do I need to respond back to their question?

There are twitter etiquette sites, but again, confusion prevails.

[(Anonymous)]

I can see why the person did it, but imho following you was taking it a bit too far, unless you'd followed them first. I don't think you need to respond, unless you want to.

[(Anonymous)]

Etiquette states you don't need to since they are trying to get free publicity from you. Yes, what they did is tacky but it is very common place now.

[(Anonymous)]

Thank you anon! Ok so I'm ok to basically not do anything then. Bah, darn commonality…

[(Anonymous)]

Does anyone else feel anxious right before they post something on tumblr? Not because you are afraid of being attacked by SJWs but because your posts are personal reflections of yourself. Like you put a little piece of yourself in each and every post. And the moment you post something only to find out a moment later someone unfollowed you because of that post, it feels like a personal slight. As if you went, "Here, this is me. What do you think?" "Nope. You suck. Bye." So, now I get anxious whenever I am about to post something because of this.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't use tumblr, but I feel that way about all public posts everywhere, under any name. That's why I like to be anon/

[seventh_seal]

Imo one of the biggest mistakes in life is to think that strangers are obsessed with you and waiting for a moment you screw up - truth is, the vast majority of people just don't care that much to give it that deep a thought, so you're really reaching if you see it as a personal slight while in fact it's just someone scrolling down on the internet and spending 0.3 of second clicking a button.

[dethtoll]

For real. And if that kind of anxiety really bothers you, I find an effective defense mechanism is to just puff up your ego. "What, you unfriended me? Pfft, later loser I'm clearly too awesome for you, whatevah, whatevah, I do what I waaaahnt"

[seventh_seal]

Or you can just use logic: following a lot of people is hard work and someone has to go - who knows, maybe the unfollower drew an elaborate lottery on who to eliminate and is actually crying themselves to sleep right now ... wait, I said logic.

[quirkytizzy]

I'm ALL about this tactic to help get around anxiety. I post everything publicly and have for years now. Most of it's even got my face on it. If it freaks you out that some people might be watching - go with the idea that EVERYONE'S watching and think about how cool that makes you.

Sounds silly, but really - it helps me stay brave.

[(Anonymous)]

once you reach a certain level of popularity that all changes. When I became a BNF and reblogged something that was "problematic", it was literally instantly pounced on.

[seventh_seal]

True, but most people aren't BNF's and I understood the OP to mean they're anxious posting anything, not potentially problematic stuff (though almost anything has the potential to be considered problematic on Tumblr, that's also true ...)

[(Anonymous)]

Does anyone else just feel really dumb all the time? Like there's people your age who know all sorts of things and you're just kind of there nodding your head.

[vethica]

You just described my entire life.

[queerwolf]

yep

[(Anonymous)]

I dwell on this every time I hang out with my friends, and was dwelling on it especially today. It upsets me so much. And I know that I also learned basically everything they know, I just somehow didn't retain the knowledge like they did. It makes me afraid of learning anything because then there's just more for me to forget and know I've forgotten.

[elaminator]

Welcome to my life.

[(Anonymous)]

Many times! People that are younger or older than me!

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

Never feel beholden to follow back. In your particular case, I agree with the assessment that they just want free publicity, and maybe more custom from you. I however believe you are not obligated to follow back anyone who randomly follows you.

It makes me think of a time a saw a discussion on LJ about friending and friending back. I saw one person who got really ansty about having uneven Friends and Friends Of lists, and an obsesstion with having them perfectly even. I developed a mindset after seeing that that I will not let some pushy idiot with a totally cosmetic obsession ever dictate who I have on my Flist.

The same sentiment applies to Twitter - don't let anyone else dictate who you follow, and don't let cosmetic silliness like having even Follow and Follower lists make you put up with being hit with boring tweets that mean nothing to you.

[(Anonymous)]

Thank you very much for this! I feel better now for not responding back to them.