[ SECRET POST #2933 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2933 ⌋

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

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02.
[Lovely Complex]


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03.
[Giada De Laurentiis/John Mayer]


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04.
[Dragon Age 2]


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[John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme]


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06.
[Robert Smith of The Cure]


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07.
[WWE]


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08.
(Agents of Shield)


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09.
[Rookie Blue]


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10.
[Star Trek: The Next Generation]


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11.
[Dragon Age Inquisition]


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12.
[Sailor Moon]


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13.
[Stargate: Atlantis]


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[Pern]












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Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

Re: Non-entertainment fandoms

[purpleseas]

Mt. Everest climbing season and all its associated lore, since the first Something Awful thread on it a few years ago. It's an amazing spectacle of qualified climbers who can still die horribly when things go wrong, and completely unqualified people who shouldn't be anywhere near a mountain but insist on going there in droves to fulfill some dumb bucket list ambition. It's actually crowded now. If you get into trouble in the death zone (they willingly pay tens of thousands of dollars to go to a place with a DEATH ZONE!) where the air is thinnest and you can't keep walking, they can't do anything for you and will leave you to die. It's very difficult and rare to even recover a body, so most of them are still there and some have become landmarks. There's an area they call Rainbow Valley, for all the different colored snowsuits on the corpses. Shriya Shah-Klorfine from the 2012 season had never climbed a mountain in her life and prepared for the world's tallest by backpacking around Toronto and climbing the rock wall at the gym. Spoiler: she died. It's craaaazy.

Re: Non-entertainment fandoms

[lb_lee]

Oh god why. Why would you risk something that fucking dangerous when you're not trained. Seriously. I've hiked smaller mountains before, little mini-mountains that happened to be right near me, and it was very moving and emotional and had a much lower risk of death. Plus cost a lot less.

I feel bad for the poor bastards stuck being guides for those greenhorns.

Re: Non-entertainment fandoms

[purpleseas]

That's the thing, the reputable companies won't take you if you don't know what you're doing and will watch you the whole time to make sure you're not going too slow or becoming incapacitated, but there's always someone else with shit standards and expectations who'll take anybody, because it's a dirt poor region and there's no other way to make real money. Shah-Klorfine was the first client for the company she used. She used several times the amount of oxygen an average person does on the ascent and was told over and over that she'd never make it back if she didn't stop. She did get to the summit, where she hung around for way too long against further advice and died soon after while descending, which is when most deaths happen. They get laser-focused on reaching the summit and give it everything they've got, when it's only half the trip. Some have tried to crawl to the top. There's this awful combination of ego and the inability to admit defeat after investing all that time and money that gets a lot of them, and then once the oxygen deprivation gets bad enough, you think everything is fine when you're actually about to die. Hypoxia experiment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGgQw4yljQ4

And then some people who manage to get up and down safely don't even get that emotional experience. They've been climbing for more than a day straight in that suffocating atmosphere and they just don't give a fuck about anything anymore, or they get up there in the dead of night and can barely see anything. They could have just watched the IMAX movie and gone on with their lives, lol.

Re: Non-entertainment fandoms

[lb_lee]

Yeah, people focus so hard on getting UP the damn mountain, they seem to forget the whole GETTING DOWN part. Obviously, I have not done any big mountains, we're talking little baby probably-don't-even-count-as-mountains that you can hike up and down in a few hours on your own, but still, getting down was actually RISKIER for me than getting up; it was so much easier to slip and fall when my momentum was already following gravity.

It's like people get this idea into their head that they can't hike just ANY mountain, it has to be the BIGGEST and BADDEST mountain because... I don't know. If it were the SECOND biggest and baddest mountain, or the fifth, or the two-hundred-and-seventeenth, it just wouldn't count.

Seriously, give me my little baby hill mountains any time. Just as gorgeous a view, can do it alone, bring a picnic lunch and then stagger on down in time for dinner.