[ SECRET POST #2775 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2775 ⌋

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

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04. [SPOILERS for Saints Row 4]



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05. [SPOILERS for Hemlock Grove]



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06. [SPOILERS for The Walking Dead Game Episode 4: Amid the Ruins]



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07. [SPOILERS for Once Upon a Time]



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08. [SPOILERS for Graceland]



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09. [WARNING for rape]



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10. [WARNING for anxiety/depression]




















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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Oh my goodness, that last point x100. I have anxiety, and I am a stage actress. Apparently these things are mutually exclusive to most people. I think the fact that 1) everything is scripted and 2) I am in the mindset of my character actually assuages my anxiety rather than ramping it up.

[kallanda_lee]

Hey, just wanted to say it sounds pretty awesome to be a stage actress - I'm actually sort of jealous. Glad you characters actually manage to help you!

[elephantinegrace]

NAYRT, but I am a stage actress, and I've found it a lot less stressful since my character and I aren't directly interacting with any audience members, so even if there are more of them, bit doesn't matter. (At least, that's how I feel. YMMV)

[(Anonymous)]

Offtopic, but haven't seen you around much. Hoe you're dong okay. Good to see you.

[elephantinegrace]

Oh, haha, nice to know I've been missed!

I got married and I moved, so F!S has been pretty low on my list of priorities (not that you guys aren't important!) but I've just settled back into my life of wasting time on the internet, so I'll probably stick around.

[(Anonymous)]

Congrats on getting married! Glad to know you're doing okay! :3 Hope to see you around more!

[kallanda_lee]

Seconding the congrats!

[(Anonymous)]

Yes, a lot of this. Most of my anxiety is social anxiety, and I've done a fair bit of amateur stage and national debates and things like that. Because, again, most of it is scripted, so I don't have to make witty things up on the fly or pretend to be functional in face-to-face interaction, the fact that I'm being a character adds a layer of insulation against the paranoid terror that people are judging me, and also the audience in most cases is over there, too big to matter individually, and often in the dark compared to me so I don't have to look people in the eye (and can sometimes even pretend they're not there at all).

I have stood up to give speeches in front of hundreds of people, and it was infinitely easier than one face-to-face conversation with someone I was actually responsible to.

[(Anonymous)]

I loved being in school and camp plays when I was young. My parents always pointed to that when I got anxious about social interaction in other situations. "If you can get up and talk in front of a whole audience, there's no way it can be so hard for you to go up to one person and introduce yourself." Unfortunately, I had no idea what made the difference, let alone how to explain it.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm glad I'm no the only one. My mom would tell me to pretend/act when I was around other people, but it's different and I can't.