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F!S Anon Meme (the Tenth?)

Secrets, rants, opinions, anything you want to say about your fandom or a fandom or fandom in general, do it here! Anonymously, of course. Get it all off your chest.

Some ground rules:
1. Going anon is encouraged but not absolutely required (for those who struggle with captchas and stuff).
2. No autoplaying/autolooping embeds, or embeds that cover/stretch the screen.
3. No dropping personal info or IRL contact info, etc.

That's about it!

List of General Threads (for easy access!)
a. Vid Rec thread
b. Positivity thread
c. What do you think of other F!S members?
d. Best Comments thread
e. Canceled Shows thread
f. Confessions thread
g. TMI thread
h. Which fictional character would you be...
i. "Is this offensive?"
j. In the good ol' days of fandom...
k. Popular fanfic you don't like
l. Really weird things you read in fanfics

Comments

Re: Rants about fandom stuff that you feel is probably too old to warrant making a secret about

[skippydelicious]

I never saw the Christianity stuff when I was growing up, the more pagan elements always seemed so pronounced. Of course I wasn't brought up in an overly religious family. Even the last book didn't make me think Christianity, just thought it was yet another depressing final book. Of course the book I'd read immediately before it was "Mostly Harmless", which had just been released, so that probably influenced my depression over it. If Lewis wanted to make Narnia a clarion call for Christianity, he did a darn poor job of it if you ask me. I think the reputation for being a Christian recruiting fic has been greatly overblown by the internet and people are being really over sensitive regarding that. Also, they are all good reads with the exception of HaHB and TLB, which have their problems.

Re: Rants about fandom stuff that you feel is probably too old to warrant making a secret about

[(Anonymous)]

He was actually fairly subtle about it for the most part (though I'd argue that Last Battle is less subtle). Certainly far more subtle than someone like Philip Pullman who gets called out for his propaganda far less. Not quite as subtle as Tolkien, certainly, but for what Lewis was trying to do I think he succeeded in doing it without overpowering the story.

To be honest, that is what matters to me anyway. As long as it is well integrated and the author doesn't sacrifice the story for their message, I don't particularly care what the message is in fantasy. People like Lewis and Tolkien managed to pull it off whereas people like Pullman and Goodkind don't understand the meaning of the word subtle. I don't necessarily agree completely with any of the perspectives, but I just want to read a good story without being knocked over the head with the author's message.

Re: Rants about fandom stuff that you feel is probably too old to warrant making a secret about

[(Anonymous)]

Funny that you mention Pullman, because I was just about to say that I feel the same way about the overblown nature of His Dark Materials being called out as atheist propaganda. But all I've ever gotten for saying so is the feeling that I'm incredibly dense because I didn't know it was supposed to be that when I read it and didn't get any "go atheist now, kids!" message out of it.

Re: Rants about fandom stuff that you feel is probably too old to warrant making a secret about

[(Anonymous)]

Interesting. To me it went way past "go atheism" and well into "god is evil, religion is evil, religious people are evil, so there". But that was only the last book. I enjoyed the earlier books and though it was less subtle than I would have liked, it worked okay. The last book, though, the story was completely lost and all he seemed to care about was his message.

Re: Rants about fandom stuff that you feel is probably too old to warrant making a secret about

[(Anonymous)]

I got "religion is evil," organized religion in particular. But "God" in the books wasn't evil, he was just a pawn who wasn't at all God-like. And God/Heaven/angels existed, so that's a double strike. But even "God is evil" would not be atheist propaganda in the slightest. Anything that proposes God exists, in whatever moral alignment, is automatically doing the opposite of promoting atheism.

Re: Rants about fandom stuff that you feel is probably too old to warrant making a secret about

[(Anonymous)]

This! I was raised jewish and didn't even notice any christian themes until someone pointed them out to me. . .

in college.

Oblivious anon is oblivious.