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⌈ Secret Post #2795 ⌋

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[Law & Order: Criminal Intent]

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[Fred Astaire/Ginger Rogers]

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[Jeeves and Wooster]

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[Yahtzee/Zero Punctuation]

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[Markiplier]

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[Jackie Chan Adventures]

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[The Parent Trap]

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[Alexander]

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[Starsky and Hutch]

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From what I've seen, it's only kids who do it but I don't read a lot of teen stories so I've mostly seen it in flashbacks in manga. It's kind of cute.

OP

Kind of? It's hard to explain. There are some I do enjoy, but I feel like I'm missing something when I can't identify with them, like I'd probably enjoy them a lot more if I could. I realize this sounds stupid.

Teammate in peril is my jam, yo. Stokes buried alive? Reid kidnapped? Bones AND Hodges buried in a car while Boothe sexily races through the desert to get to them?

I love them all. I don't watch Criminal Intent, but I would watch this episode.

I don't know if media is necessarily a good judge of empathy levels here because SO VERY MUCH of it is just so badly done. A ton of big budget movies nowadays have a tendency to just throw in a romance. And it's inevitable cheap, superficial, and poorly done. And I say this as a hopelessly straight person.

I would suggest looking at the people in your life -- the straight couples -- do you judge their relationships as somehow meaning less or being less "real" than yours is? If you don't then I would say don't worry about your reaction so much.

You're probably just reflexively turned off by shitty writing.

I'm thinking a third language might make me more desirable because the language I studied when I first went has basically dried up in my head and a second language looks good when you apply to publishing companies (or so I've heard). And I'm interested in the language personally, so seems like I'd get something out of it personally.

OP

I forgot to mention that in my original post, but that's an issue with me too. I don't usually write anything because I'm not good at it, but I'm always having ideas for things I'd like to write, and they always involve only gay characters. If I ever get around to writing any of them I feel like it would be wrong (and unrealistic) to make EVERYONE gay but writing about straight characters just doesn't appeal to me at all.

I do like student life, I won't lie. School is fun.

Oh God. Fuck Neil Gaiman.

No, I don't feel that way and do enjoy straight romances too. (When they're well done, anyway. Like any other romance.) I don't think this makes you a terrible person, but I don't understand why any relationship would feel less valid or real because of the characters genders, ...I guess it's just one of those things you can't explain. As long as you aren't dicks to other people over it I suppose it's fine? At least you realize it's a thing.

I want to learn it for fun but I know it would help me professionally down the line.

Yes, you absolutely should! I recommend Swing Time (my personal favorite) and Top Hat. The Gay Divorcee is really good as well.

Every day or it gets super greasy. In the summer it fills up with sweat, too, and smells stale.

Fuck YouTubers.

I'd suggest graduate, and take classes at a community college if possible, because it'll be way cheaper. Those credits are all the same, anyway. Get flashcards and books and whatnot, twenty minutes a day, and you'll learn just as well as majoring in it, you just wouldn't have the set schedule. Also, you can buy the textbook and not take the class. There are workbooks you can get at larger bookstores or online. Online newspapers. There are tons of resources.

Edit: I saw above you mentioning raising your GPA. Go for it, then. There's everything right with raising your GPA by doing something you enjoy.

Edited 2014-08-29 01:04 (UTC)

Three times a week or so usually. I usually have to triple wash it when I do, though. My hair is really thick to the point where every hairdresser I've had has commented on it.

Mostly I use whatever is cheapest, and usually the ones for dyed hair.

I don't condition much. Maybe once every other week. Any more than that actually messes my hair up. And I never use hairspray/gel/mouse. My hair doesn't take product well.

Dancing. I used to do ballet and tap when I was younger but during my late teens I just sort of stopped doing it, partly because I went through a stage where I lost interest in everything and it was one of the things that got left by the wayside.

And for the same reasons, playing the trumpet. I do really miss that though and while I don't think I'd want to play the same instrument again I kind of want to play something.

The key with a p-a cleaning is doing it in a demonstrative fashion looking to get a reaction. Like "I need to guilt them into doing it". Intent matters I think. This hepothetical untidy roommate would notice the p-a because of a frown, irritated movements and too loud sighs. Or a stony silence, that works too.

Well, telling someone 'Poor you, are you seek?'
And the other answers: 'No. Oo'
And the first one goes: 'Oh maybe you just didn't get enough sleep'
The person: ':('
In the above there's no way the symphathy was genuene! Usually it's all in the intonation and a subtext. Like do these people even like each other?

For ex., A forgot the B's Birthday. B isquietly fuming. They go to see friends. B tells all the embarassing stories looking at A from time to time. A grits teeth and tries to interupt the flow politely. The friends are oblivious.

I like milk chocolate the best. Come at me, bro.

Makes sense! Thanks for indulging my interest! I kind of want to see this now; it does sound cute.

I was about that age when the movie came out, and I loved Lindsay in it...she used to be so innocent!! :/

OP

Hmmm, you might be right. Most of the relationships of the people around me I think are just as meaningful, but some of them I do think are less real. Like my brother and his girlfriend, for example. But I think that's probably more to do with who he is than the fact that he's straight (he changes girlfriends so often it's hard to believe he's capable of having genuine feelings for anyone).

I hear you on the bike thing. After I injured myself twice on bikes, I'm done with them.

I understand conceptually why a character would behave that way but as far as I remember this is the only time when Shadow comment on his own racial background at all (either in his internal monologue or in conversation). So I'm not sure what the text is accomplishing by withholding that information.

Why not just buy the bakers chocolate and eat those then? 100 percent pure, no milk, no sugar at all.

OP

Oh, no, I would never tell anyone that! It's just something I'm thinking to myself. I've been thinking about how it's hard to relate but maybe the point is that I don't NEED to relate. Maybe just saying 'alright, that isn't my experience, but it's theirs and it's just as real to them as my relationship is to me' and leaving it at that is actually okay.

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