[ SECRET POST #2800 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2800 ⌋

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

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02.
[Song of the Lioness]


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03.
[Genso Suikoden II]


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04.
[Gordon Ramsay]


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05.
[Outlast: Whistleblower]


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06.
[Chris Pine/Zachary Quinto]


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07.
[Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger]


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08.
[Johnny Wander/Lucky Penny]


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09.
[Doctor Who]


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10.
[Daft Punk]


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11.
[Discworld]


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12.
[Grant Imahara, Kari Byron and Tory Belleci]


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13.
[The Hobbit]







Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 045 secrets from Secret Submission Post #400.
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]

11. http://i61.tinypic.com/qot9xu.png
[Discworld]

[peablossom]

What are you talking about? Petulia was great. Yeah, I mean, she wasn't all full of derring-do, but she had plenty of good qualities.

And she can do the pig-trick.

So.

[(Anonymous)]

That was my first thought. She was kind of a wet blanket at first when she was with Annagramma, but she grew up to be a practical and skilled witch.

[endis_ni]

She can do the pig-trick... without a pig!

I've been re-reading this series lately, and came away liking Petulia more than ever.

[(Anonymous)]

There are children here, you know!

[(Anonymous)]

If you really read those books and took away that everyone other than Tiffany was worthless... then I feel intensely sorry for you. One of the best things about Pratchetts books (but especially the witches books) is that everyone has their strengths and weaknesses.

Especially if you've read 'I shall wear midnight' - where Pratchett spends the whole book showing Tiffany's dawning realisation that Nanny Ogg is, in many ways, stronger than Granny Weatherwax even if she's not as powerful.

[(Anonymous)]

Thought that the point was that Petulia WAS brave, when the danger was greatest and it mattered most. You just need to find your brave, OP.

[Tiffany] had a momentary picture of Petulia standing in front of some horrible raging thing, but it wasn't as funny as she'd first thought. Petulia *would* stand in front of it, shaking with terror, her useless amulets clattering, scared almost out of her mind... but not backing away. She'd thought there might be people facing something horrible here, and she'd come anyway.

[kallanda_lee]

I'm not in this fandom, but I sort of know the feeling.

Young me was this incredibly idealistic person, fearless, outspoken, with an annoyingly just moral compass. i.e. your classic hero protagonist type.

As an adult I'm cynical, anxious, awkward and morally grey at best. Also I've accomplished shit. Past me would not be pleased.

I guess the only thing to do is to try to be more like the person you want to be, even if you know you might never fully achieve it.

[sarillia]

Leaving aside the specific characters and whether or not it's bad to be like one of them, if you're not happy with who you are, there are things you can try to change. It's difficult but possible to form new habits and try to be more like the person you would like to be.

[(Anonymous)]

Granny Weatherwax wouldn't hate you, OP. You might exasperate her, but let's face it, everyone who's not Granny Weatherwax exasperates Granny Weatherwax. More importantly, we can't all be Tiffany Aching. Being a Petulia and NOT having immense talent and a gift for confrontation and STILL carving out a good life for yourself doing things you're good at (even if they aren't as highly respected by everyone) is nothing to sneeze at.

[(Anonymous)]

DA

I was gonna say, Granny Weatherwax sort of hates everyone, or hates having to put up with everyone at least, but she'd still think any one of them (or us) would be worth dying for. She's a grumpy, disdainful old busybody, but everybody has value to her.

Because, well, everyone has value, whether they're the Tiffany Achings of the world or not.

[(Anonymous)]

Even Granny Weatherwax exasperates Granny Weatherwax at times. Her ground state is pretty much exasperation.

[(Anonymous)]

Granny Weatherwax is half-exasperated, half-cranky, and generally speaking actually terrible at people. She's good at headology, sure. She's really good at getting in people's heads. But she's also kind of socially awkward. She's had to isolate herself to be an awesome witch, and in some ways it's exactly what she wanted and in other ways... well, she might be exasperated with Nanny Ogg more often than not, but she'd also probably be a little lost without her.

[ibbity]

Strength of character is in many ways a matter of choice. You can choose who you want to be. If you don't like what you perceive as weakness of character in yourself, figure out what you want to see replace that trait and force it to be present - fake it till you make it as they say. It's what I did when I realized I was a giant wuss back in the day. Took some time and a lot of work but I made myself into a force to be reckoned with. You can do it too.

[(Anonymous)]

Same here. Sadly.

[(Anonymous)]

I feel like I let my younger self down. Sorry, me, I'm just not that strong of a person.

I think there's a certain amount of strength inherent just in still existing. In being you, in having kept yourself going in the world this long. If I met my younger self, that'd be my primary thought. Little me, you are going to go through so much shit to get as far as me, but on the bright side, since I'm here, you made it through all that shit (not necessarily intact, but you made it). And honey, that was a near thing way too many times. You're kind of fragile, little me, and trust me, things are gonna happen to you to make you figure that out real quick and really, really comprehensively, but hey. You're gonna survive them too. As fragile as you are, you're gonna survive everything that almost broke you on the way to being me (and a couple of things that did break you, but you got better), and if you can say nothing else about your life, one day you'll be able to say you survived it long enough to be me.

I mean, little me isn't going to necessarily understand why that would be a good thing, but little me was kind of an innocent idiot a lot of the time, and has no idea what she's in for yet. Her idea of strong and my idea of strong aren't the same thing anymore, mostly because her idea of strong, ah, didn't test so well in actual circumstances. Mine's a work in progress, but it's lasted me a bit better than hers did so far.

Strength is relative to circumstance. You don't always have to hold the whole Chalk. Sometimes you just have to hold you. Sometimes, that's a lot harder than it looked when you were small, but, well, a lot of things are. There are times when honestly just being there at the end of the day counts as one of those little triumphs, and there's no harm thinking of it that way.

I'm a fragile, cowardly little breakable thing. But I'm still here despite the world's best efforts, so nyah ;)

(For the record, in Discworld terms, I'm Rincewind. I'm also pretty much okay with that).

[(Anonymous)]

Damnit, anon, fandomsecret replies shouldn't make me misty-eyed.

[lunabee34]

I hear ya.

*passes the hankies*

[(Anonymous)]

‘I wish I’d known then what I know now’? But when you got older you found out that you now wasn’t you then. You then was a twerp. You then was what you had to be to start out on the rocky road of becoming you now, and one of the rocky patches on that road was being a twerp.

[(Anonymous)]

I think OP's in more of a Seger mood, actually.