[ SECRET POST #2748 ]

[case]

⌈ Secret Post #2748 ⌋

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

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Notes:

Early because ... World Cup! No other excuse.

Secrets Left to Post: 04 pages, 087 secrets from Secret Submission Post #393.
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

[fscom]

05. http://i.imgur.com/nXjJVMZ.png

[(Anonymous)]

...taxidermy?

I am so confused.

Not OP

[(Anonymous)]

I'm pretty sure that was a joke.

[silverr]

I thought I'd parsed out that you feel that fandom's problems come from the nerdier fandoms (e.g. videogames, comics, animanga) but I am also at a loss about how taxidermy is a fandom (or even problemmatic).

I do question your assessment that the fandoms are the cause of the poor social skills, however. Fandoms may certainly amplify preexisting behavior, but I just can't buy that they cause it.

[sarillia]

I read the secret the opposite way from you. Their problems in fandom are due to them being bad at social skills, not that fandom causes the lack of social skills. Which sounds logical enough to me. Fandom is a social place and people who lack social skills are going to have trouble in fandom just like in any other social situation.

[(Anonymous)]

is the taxidermy part a reference to how some people find taxidermists creepy? I don't get it.

[(Anonymous)]

Taxidermy fandom is more like nail polish or make up fandom (just no tutorials, and more humor) than say... Supernatural fandom, from what I've seen.

Also, Op, it's not just the social skills. At least as far as video games goes there are just some problems in the culture attached to it.

[a_potato]

...yesss?

[cushlamochree]

Personally as a major taxidermy fan I am DEEPLY insulted by this insinuation

[(Anonymous)]

This may be the most baffling secret since "field fires of my youth."

[(Anonymous)]

The secret itself isn't all that weird (minus the taxidermy bit), but the imagery is downright baffling. Song lyrics on top and bottom. Jesus and a bunch of animals, including a transparent fish, surrounding a nerd. Plus the "watch your shoes, but not your bike!" blurb.

Maybe it's a code or something.

[kallanda_lee]

This is my favourite since tar season.

[kaleidoscope]

Thank you for putting the "Safety Dance" in my head! No really, it's a good ear worm.

[shortysc22]

I only need to hear the first few bars and it gets stuck in my head too. Classic 80s though.

[paperghost]

So do I.

[ibbity]

TIL there are people who weren't already aware of this...I mean, you don't know how to deal with people in general, you aren't gonna suddenly start being good at it just because it's over the internet.

[(Anonymous)]

I have no idea what's going on here and I like it.

[lunabee34]

I will have you know that when my taxidermied squirrels and I are reenacting the siege of Troy, we do so with as much social grace and finesse as when we are staging the Battle of Wolf 359.

[(Anonymous)]

It's tar season again!

[(Anonymous)]

...I know several taxidermists and they're all (except one) gruff middle-aged to elderly men with perfectly adequate social skills and a distinct lack of fannishness and squee. I'm not sure why they're in this secret?

[(Anonymous)]

I totally agree, OP. I'm still confused about the Taxidermy bit though.

Safety Dance a long!

[(Anonymous)]

Safety Dance must always be shared when a reference to it is seen.


http://youtu.be/T7hHx7gdN68

[(Anonymous)]

Please forgive me if I'm wrong, OP, but I'm 99.99% sure that...

THE TAXIDERMY PART WAS A JOKE, PEOPLE.

[diet_poison]

wat

[(Anonymous)]

video games, anime/manga = super nerdy?

while slashing superwholock shit is not less socially acceptable? oh boy I remember why I stopped coming to this site.