[ SECRET POST #2821 ]

[case]

⌈ Secret Post #2821 ⌋

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

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02.
[Twin Peaks]


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03.
[Star Trek]


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04.
[Fall Out Boy]


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05.
[Monster]


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06.
[Left 4 Dead 2/Grand Theft Auto 5]


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07.
[Cabin Pressure]


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08.
[Quantum Leap]


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09.
[Amy Winehouse]

















Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 036 secrets from Secret Submission Post #403.
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]

04. http://oi60.tinypic.com/6tmqfm.jpg
[Fall Out Boy]

[(Anonymous)]

... rpf is "getting" creepy?

Pretty sure it's already creepy.

[(Anonymous)]

+infinity

[(Anonymous)]

on high

This!

[(Anonymous)]

I was going to say!

[(Anonymous)]

people never want to admit they're *those* RPFers

[cloud_riven]

lmao it's only just now getting creepy? Oh you silly joker! ♥


Although, if it's squicking an rpfer, that's actually saying something <:|a

[(Anonymous)]

Honey, let me tell you; once you start RPF, you have flung yourself into that slippery slope, and that edge is just the start of creepy.

[(Anonymous)]

Yep. Pretty much.

[elaminator]

Wow, I had no idea he was going to be a father! That's great for them. (I've never seen a picture of his wife either...she's lovely.)

For some reason Patrick being a father makes me feel old, haha.

[(Anonymous)]

Same-- despite being the same age and many of my friends having kids. Weird.

[elaminator]

He's a bit older than me, but most the people around me are getting married and having kids too. It's an odd feeling for me because I still feel like a kid myself! I can't imagine having one of my own.

[(Anonymous)]

Ah ha ha, I'm pregnant right now and my high school friend just became a grandmother. :(

[(Anonymous)]

For some reason I read this as "I had no idea I was going to be a father," and I was like "but I thought you were female?"

[elaminator]

LOL. Yup, you made a bit of a mistake there, but since it was first thing in the morning it's understandable.

[(Anonymous)]

If you keep playing around in the RPF sandbox, eventually this will seem normal to you. And that's when you'll find out what creepy *really* is when it comes to RPF.

[(Anonymous)]

Once you start down the RPF path, forever will it dominate your creepy destiny.

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only RPF, and an uncontrollable urge to start making mythagowoods-esque manips of all your favourite non-fictional people. Most of all, THERE IS NO TURNING BACK.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeaah creepy. RPfic bothers me because it's like playing with someone's life like they're a toy.

[dimestoresaint]

Exactly. Creepy or not (and I come down on the side of creepy), it's incredibly disrespectful.

[(Anonymous)]

Also, then you get into the ones who take their RPF so seriously that they get mad at the girlfriends of the people they ship. and that's just "ughhhh"

(not that all of them do it,mind)

Unpopular opinion time!

[elephantinegrace]

Or maybe it's not that unpopular. -shrug- Looking at the thread so far, it will be.

I don't think RPF, by itself, is creepy. I've said this before, my friends and I started a writing club because we'd spent time creating sprawling epics detailing how our crushes (usually members of the marching band, and yes, we were losers) would fall in love with us, and we'd share them with each other. And we've yet to kidnap somebody to live out these fantasies, partially because these stories were outlets for our romantic frustrations, and partially because writing them made us realize that our crushes were complete nincompoops.

Basically, there's a difference between writing a story and posting it where somebody related to the person in question could easily see it, or taking it even further than that. (OP, I know you're talking about RPF between children, which I found skeevy even when I was a child, but this comment was addressing the thread more than the secret, sorry.)

Re: Unpopular opinion time!

[(Anonymous)]

Personally, I think that RPF is only creepy because of the massive gossip/paparazzi industry that feeds it. If people want to write about someone who is long dead, or someone as their public persona (like Stephen Colbert) that's totally fine with me. Also the really crazy AUs where, say, the guys from Supernatural are unicorns in space. But all the hook-up fic is fucking creepy. I work next to a newsagency and I always see their paid, published RPF magazines in the window ("Angelina fights Jennifer!" "Kate has triplets!" "Too thin!" "Too fat!") and it makes me think that celebrities, even super minor ones, are like property, not actual people. Especially when they photograph the non-celebrity family members, and especially especially the kids.

Re: Unpopular opinion time!

[(Anonymous)]

Your story is cute, if a little dorky. And I think if the RPF folks kept it as a bonding exercise between friends, the thread would be a lot kinder. But if you and your friends had posted your stories on the marching band website or distributed copies of your stories to the football team, or started picking fights with other people who didn't believe that the trombone player and the piccolo player would ever have a threesome with your friend Jenny, then it would have gone into the creepy territory that seems to be the default mode with most fandoms' RPF crowd.

Re: Unpopular opinion time!

[(Anonymous)]

This. A lot of us at one time or another when we were young had fantasies of our crushes, which detailed or not, is essentially fanfic in our heads.