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[ SECRET POST #2952 ]

⌈ Secret Post #2952 ⌋

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[Tales of Zestiria]

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[Strange Magic]

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[Sleepy Hollow]

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[Star Trek: TNG]

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[Person of Interest]

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(Dangan Ronpa)

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(Splash, Daryl Hannah)

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[Once Upon a Time]

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[VH1's Hindsight]

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Most people have an obsession others would find eccentric or even maybe a little creepy. What are yours?

I not only twitter-stalk some of my celebrity crushes, if their wives are on twitter, I follow them, too.

If Death is featured as a main character, I'll probably read/watch it, even if it's terribly written. Also I love reading up on mythology and superstitions and graveyard lore and such around death. I have loooots of bookmarks and a collection of mythology books.

Also anything to do with cults, conspiracy theories, weird paranormal shit, creepypasta.

But the death thing is very specific, and even I'm like "Hmmm, this is kind of weird, should I be worried about this?"

*shrugs*

Do you read the Discworld books?

Yes! I reread Hogfather every Christmas.

And the witches are delightful.

Woooo, fellow cult nerd! (Though I'm still pretty new to it.) So many of the same names and groups, over and over again...

--Rogan

Re: Your weird obsessions

(Anonymous) - 2015-02-03 01:26 (UTC) - Expand

Re: Your weird obsessions

lb_lee - 2015-02-03 02:16 (UTC) - Expand

Re: Your weird obsessions

(Anonymous) - 2015-02-03 02:31 (UTC) - Expand

Re: Your weird obsessions

lb_lee - 2015-02-03 02:43 (UTC) - Expand

fandom's a given, specially anime, but beyond that not much

my taste in music is a little offbeat, i guess

I collect Cold War paraphernalia. Postcards, travel brochures, books from garage sales about the Great Mysteries of the Soviet Union. I don't display it because I don't want anyone to think I'm some weird conspiracy theorist or USSR weeaboo. I just find it interesting.

Nah, I get it, that stuff's interesting! I love old postcards and travel-related stuff.

Here's a weirdly specific question- do you have anything in your collection that's advertising or propaganda related to food or food production, especially if it's WWII-era? Ads, pamphlets, poster art, product packaging.

A few years back I did a project on the topic that was mostly US/UK-focused, but with some info from France too. Since then, I've continued to collect examples (images in a digital format) when I come across them. I'd love to see Russian examples if you have any, or have links where I might find that sort of thing? S'cool if you don't, though!

Re: Your weird obsessions

(Anonymous) - 2015-02-03 00:52 (UTC) - Expand

I once met someone like you, but obsessed with WWII-era stuff. One of the first things she said about it was: "I know this is weird, and people take it the wrong way, but I'm really into WWII."

I guess it must overlap a bit with neonazis or holocaust deniers or something, so she didn't want that association.

I'm a taphophile. I love old cemeteries, love taking photos of them, have books about them, love the history, and when I visit new places, they are some of the first things I want to see.

I guess that's a little weird?

I don't know if this is what you meant, but I like to pull dried glue off of the outside of glue bottles. If it's not clean, it bugs me.

Genealogy.

And although it has a reputation for being something people do because they're smug, I'd like to point out it doesn't have to be that way. I'm just curious.

Medical, medicine, health-related, weird neurological or biological disorders, I'm so all over any of that, it's definitely an auto-read, any kind of book, non-fiction or fiction, that comes up at the library, goes on my wish list, and any related books mentioned in those books are auto-reads.

Example: House of God is next up on my reading list. This was after reading about said book in The Secret Language of Doctors, which I also read.

Why is this an unhealthy obssession, you ask? I spent the bulk of my early life in and out of hospital, and as a result, I usually have to be literally dragged, kicking and screaming (and only at the point of severe illness) for medical assistance....Also do everything I can to try and avoid getting sick, but feh. Stuff happens. But to read about all kinds of medical things, gross or otherwise? Marathoning Untold Stories of the ER? Yep. All over that. *shrug* My brain, it is inexplicable.

Oh, same! I love reading about really bizarre medical stuff, and at the same time I'm completely terrified of getting the flu. I think it must probably have the same appeal as reading creepypastas - just a little bit scary and fascinating so you can't stop reading.

Lately I've been into cults. I've been into multi for ages, for obvious reasons.

On a more general level, I'm interested in how people work, and what makes them rationalize or justify the things they do, even when those things are horrible. I figure it's good to be prepared.

--Rogan

I used to be obsessed with reading about Satanic Ritual Cults. I found them very disturbing, but I'm still not sure if they're true or mainly urban legend.

Re: Your weird obsessions

lb_lee - 2015-02-03 02:39 (UTC) - Expand

Re: Your weird obsessions

(Anonymous) - 2015-02-03 04:16 (UTC) - Expand

I LOVE reading shit about cults. I got really big into reading up on Jim Jones last year. I think it's absolutely fascinating how people can be sucked into that type of atmosphere.

Do you have any reading recs? I'd take anything and everything.

Re: Your weird obsessions

lb_lee - 2015-02-03 22:06 (UTC) - Expand

If anything even remotely looks like a movie ticket stub on the ground, i'm on it. Whenever we go somewhere with a big movie theater, i'm usually poking around the entrance or parking lot looking for stubs of movies I don't have.

It has to be a movie ticket though.

I've always been super into WWII. But I don't think that is all that weird. Ummmmmmm, zombies even though they terrify me.

I count the rounds fired from handguns in movies and TV shows. I know the magazine capacity of all the popular models, and I want to see if they keep that accurate. (Titanic, interestingly enough, did this perfectly.)

Cold cases/unsolved murder cases. Some of them really give me the heeby jeebies.

Cracked sometimes does some interesting articles on this.

I remember one a while back that mentioned the Taman Shud case. And the weird radioactive-guys-in-a-field one. And there's also that lady who was killed in Australia, who still hasn't been identified.

Re: Your weird obsessions

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Re: Your weird obsessions

(Anonymous) - 2015-02-03 05:03 (UTC) - Expand

Same, anon. I love historical ones in particular, like Hinterkaifeck or the Villisca Axe Murders.

Re: Your weird obsessions

(Anonymous) - 2015-02-03 06:22 (UTC) - Expand

I get these cyclically, and we've books in our house in everything from serial killers to occultism to hereticism to cults, but one of my longest running interests is in mythology, folklore and superstitions. Faeries, ghouls, demons, boogeymen, sleep paralysis and nightmares, ritual superstitions, plague superstitions, danse macabre/totentanz, intersections of religion and superstition, architecture/archaeology/beliefs relating to death and burials, ghosts and spirits, historical mass mania episodes, saints and relics, haunted locations, historical figures who developed supernatural reputations, etc, etc. Basically all those things that regularly turn up as plot points in supernatural fiction/urban fantasy/historical fantasy.

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