[ SECRET POST #362 ]

[shahni.livejournal.com]

⌈ Secret Post #362 ⌋

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

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Notes:

- Name that fandom, first comment! Fandomsecrets turns a year old on the third!

Secrets Left to Post: 5 pages, 100 secrets from Secret Submission Post #052.
Secrets Not Posted: 0 broken links, [1] not!secrets, 0 not!fandom.
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Comments

06 ; 10 ; 11 ; 38

[gabriela-gosden.livejournal.com]

06 : ...
10 : so true. Now you said it, I remember that all the pairings I shipped before are like that O_o
11 : hahahahahaha xD

38 : funny thing (interested, but don't know why... O.o)

[hiriko.livejournal.com]

Give me Phoenix Wright games nao. :(

5. I'm ashamed but... Um.. When I figured out he was a he, he got more interesting to me. xDD (Lol poetic.) But that doesn't mean he is a slut. :( He was.. just raised that way!
But I like playing May!

46. I feel like that, too. D: Though the girl I RP with... I know her in real life, so I talk to her quite much. >_> I hope she isn't annoyed. And I'd love to RP with her again, but... I don't know. I'm too afraid to ask her properly. :(

[ihearttoronto.livejournal.com]

what does BNF mean?

[hiriko.livejournal.com]

Big name fan. :)

[ihearttoronto.livejournal.com]

oooh okies. thanks! :)

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[lefcadio.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the only main couple I genuinely really love from the newer games is Zidane/Garnet. The others... meh.

That's why I'm really liking XII (started playing it recently, so only about halfway through) and it makes a nice change that there's no real romance.

...But I have a feeling what I do ship won't be popular in fandom anyway.

[wazira-sharira.livejournal.com]

Wow, when I saw there were 9 pages I expected most of it would be wank, but there's very little...guess the comm is just growing.

1. That's the best reason I've ever heard for someone wanting to be a BNF. Thumbs way up for you.

27. I wish mythology and folklore had a more noticeable fandom too. I would be incredibly happy if there was an Arabian Nights fandom. Sure, we'd have badfic and nobody would actually be able to write in the style of most translations, but those are perils I'd be willing to face. (Funny thing is, my favorite character in the original stories is also named Jafar. I'm a Jafar fan twice over.)

[leoin.livejournal.com]

Random icon love! &hearts

[wazira-sharira.livejournal.com]

I didn't make it, but thanks anyway.

[vontriz.livejournal.com]

You know, I wasn't going to comment, but crikey, there's a lot of great secrets today. It pays to be a Phoenix Wright fan!

10. Phoenix x Edgeworth for the win indeed. I didn't ship them at first, and I've only seen the appeal in the last few months, so I really need to catch up.

12. No comment on the secret, but that is an amazing picture @_@

15. Ack, I love the English VA for L, it's making me watch the whole thing again. Can't wait for the next episode... I need my fix...

17. JEEVES AND WOOSTER. In general, Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry are awesomecakes.

30. Eh, most canon FF ships bore me anyway. Some are a bit sweet, but I've never been overly concerned with them.

37. And I bet it was worth it =D

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[gunfuck.livejournal.com]

Hi are you related to me? Except I've been doing since I was 9-10.

#1

[(Anonymous)]

I understand what you're saying but I find it a much bigger thrill when an author I love to read and respect as a writer comments on my fics. BNFs...sometimes in fandoms, people can't even agree who they are!

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[(Anonymous)]

I'm a BNF in a small fandom. And it actually gets pretty annoying when you go to someone's journal via their review of your fic or their friending you, and you and try to engage them in a friendly fashion or tell them that you like their fic and they go "OH MY GOD IT'S YOU AND YOU'RE TALKING TO ME... I-I LOVE YOU I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO SAY TO YOU *WIBBLE*" And then do that for hours. Quite literally. I don't think it's because I'm that awesome, I think it's because my fandom is really that silly. But anyway, it's a tiny bit flattering but it's also massively embarassing and gets pretty annoying when you're just trying to have a frickin' conversation. So I would probably not like to do that.

[gaignun.livejournal.com]

1) I understand why the popularity of a BNF affects that sort of thing for some people, so it's a nice secret. :D But I think just in general, if you review a fic with the same intent regardless of who you are, so long as it's nice and stuff, the BNF thing doesn't matter and it'll make the author all :D.

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[googlebrat.livejournal.com]

I hope you're reading this, hon, because I think you need to hear it.

This was not your fault. It doesn't matter if she asked you to give her a lift and you refused. Your sister had options. She could have gone that night and drank soft drinks. She could have got a taxi. She could even have chosen not to go.

It doesn't matter if you were busy because you were watching TV, because you were having mind-blowing sex, or because you were performing life-saving surgery on a small child. You were busy, and it then became your sister's responsibility to do something other than drink and drive.

It's normal to feel responsible. Believe me on this. It's normal to rewrite the past - to say "if I had done X, she would have done y". But that doesn't make it your fault for not doing X, I promise you it doesn't.

I have a kid sister myself. She's adorable. Nineteen. Doesn't drive yet. If she one day learns to drive, and I say I can't give her a lift - for whatever reason - and she drinks and drives? She will be smacked. And then I will tell mum. And she'd be damn lucky if her car keys weren't confiscated. Because she made that choice, not me, and it was a bad choice.

Your sister messed up. And she got unlucky too. It happens. It's hard and it happens. Every day people play the odds - I can afford to go a little over the speed limit because I'm late for work so it's excusable, I can afford to drink-drive because I can't get a lift so it's not my fault. And a lot of them get away with it. A few don't. It's horrible, it's tragic, but it's not your fault.

It sounds as though this is something you would do well to talk about, but I understand if you feel as though you can't with family. Get help. Call a helpline if you have no other options. Get it off your chest to someone, talk it out.

But believe me. This was not your fault.

Re: 22

[(Anonymous)]

Second that.

My mother is a recovering alcoholic and it took me a long time to learn, as her adult child, that what she did, her OWN decisions, were not my responsibility. I'm quite certain that you giving her a ride was not her only option. It NEVER EVER is. And blaming youself is only a path to undeserved self-hate. Do not listen to anyone who will try to tell you it is your fault. If she expected someone to drop everything for her because she was too drunk to drive, that is not that "someone"'s problem. Please, God, by all means, mourn. But don't beat yourself up over a wrong decision that someone else made.

I turned my own mother down for rides home from the bar before. For various reasons. And I worried. But now I know that that was okay. If she really wanted to be sure she'd have a lift, she would have made arrangements in advance.

God bless you.

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[dissociate.livejournal.com]

IMHO this is very thoughtfully written and I sincerely hope the OP comes to understand that.

Re: 22

[googlebrat.livejournal.com]

When I was a kid, my cousin was one of those who played the odds and lost at speeding. Nothing extrodinary, nothing millions of people don't do every day. Just a silly kid trying to get to work faster than he should and hitting black ice.

I don't forget people playing the blame game. It always happens after such things. It's a tragedy - but being a tragedy doesn't make it anyone else's fault. That can be the really hard part to accept.

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[leoin.livejournal.com]

27. I know where you are coming from. That still today is one of my absolute favorite books. I loved when we read it in higschool (pretty sure I was the only one) ... I wish odd things like this had a fandom too. D:

44. Black Adder is pretty much the greatest thing ever. I approve of this secret.

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[cryogenia.livejournal.com]

Dude, if your fandom loves are so intense they hurt you, that's crossing a line from "kinda eccentric" to "pathological".

[dissociate.livejournal.com]

20. Oh wow - I'm going to do this myself now all the fucking time. THANKS

22. It is not your fault. It is *NOT* your fault. I hope things come along as best as they possibly can under the circumstances.

36. Your fanart is awesome, and so is One Piece. If your friends don't like One Piece, that's their own loss unless they've actually read a good portion of the series and judged it afterwards. But if you are concerned about people you know finding out and such, what about creating a secondary, fandom-only LJ without telling them? I hope you stick with One Piece, it gets even better. :)

[(Anonymous)]

15. THANK YOU! I love the DN dub and noone on my f-list understands that it is a good dub. I can't wait to hear Mello and Near's voices!

43. I wish they would and that they would stop saying "OMG IT'S CANON!!!"

45. I understand. I really do.

49. That is very sad and I don't mean "sad" as in "patetic." I hope it will get better for you.

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[tadashi-chan.livejournal.com]

16. WOAH. someone who likes GX, AND WATCHES IT. Like me! :D 'cept YGO was way better.

22. gosh... don't you feel kinda.............................. terrible? I don't think I could ever live with myself after that, much less keep watching that show... ._.'

36. ...............*brainsplode*.......................

45. woah................ older Rin. I kinda think it's better when she's younger...? but only platonically. I can't actually wrap my brain around them getting it on XDDDDDDDDD

[axel-kun.livejournal.com]

22. ... THAT'S.. awful. :( made me tear up. *hugs*
30. Yeah, I don't like FF-couples usually. :/ (IX was the only thing, I liked the ending, 'cause Garnet wasn't the damsel in distress all the time) Don't be afraid to play FFXII. It doesn't have main couple, except for Rasler and Ashe, but.. well, shit happens.