[ SECRET POST #336 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #336 ⌋

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

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Notes:

Out again, Christmas shopping/making a buttload of cookies! You know what to do!

Last day to submit for next week!

Secrets Left to Post: 00 pages, 00 secrets from Secret Submission Post #048.
Secrets Not Posted: 0 broken links, [ 1 ] not!secret, [ 1 ] not!fandom, [ 1 ] repeat.
Next Secret Post: Tomorrow, Saturday, December 7th, 2007.
Current Secret Submission Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[rem-sama.livejournal.com]

24. While it looks like you already know a blanket statement like that doesn't actually work, I guess I'll step in for the other side of the equation: a person who learned how to grow up through Disney, watching these characters face difficulties and trials by fire and somehow making it through. If they could do that, I could take what the "normal" world could throw at me, right? While I resolved to have that kind of determination, to believe in myself the way a lot of those characters did.

Besides, a very applicable saying of my mother's is this: "The day you grow up is the day you die." Retaining at least some of that magic and wonder helps to cope with a lot of the ugliness that exists in the real world; while I agree that getting stuck in a fantasy world and refusing to come out is by no means healthy, I hope you don't mean we should go without one completely.

37. Oops, looks like someone else did it first. Guess the RPGs are just catching up! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_Refrigerators)

I'm not necessarily agreeing or disagreeing, I'm just surprised that no one's mentioned that hey, it's not just the Japanese; we're just as guilty of a similar stereotypical trend here on the other side of the Pacific. Though comics are certainly a whole other can of worms.

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I would never imply that in my life. Fantasy does a lot of good, but it does a lot of harm when overloaded, as any good thing. I know a lot of people who are just fantasy addicts and can't come to terms with the real world, and one of the biggest recurring factors is Disney. And age group.

I'm like you in that I use it for strength and for positive thinking, and damn it's helped. I don't deny that. (Naruto, for example, is one of my fictional heroes. I love the idiot.) But I've also used fantasy too much in my time, and it's done a lot of damage. I'm not whining and saying "poor us Disney fails you fucked us up pay therapy billz plz D:" I'm perfectly aware that as an adult, it's up to myself to be aware of and change negative thoughts and behaviors, but not everyone is.
I made this secret very badly, because my hope was that it would be a...hm. A push? If there are people who are like that and don't know why, I wanted the secret to help them think about it. And maybe Disney isn't at fault for them at all, but at least they can think and identify, and from there can change so that they're no longer hurting themselves with an overload of fantasy.