[ SECRET POST #2960 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2960 ⌋

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

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Notes:

Better early than late!

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Comments

[fscom]

09. http://i59.tinypic.com/23w0747.png

[(Anonymous)]

Really curious what book it was, or at least what the character's preferences were.

SA

[(Anonymous)]

I don't mean that in a condescending way. I've just never run into that situation.

[(Anonymous)]

da

Me too. Unless stating that preference was vital to the character's development, I find it a little odd that any writer would express it that concretely, if only at the risk of turning off readers like OP.

Alientating your readers without damn good reason seems pretty counterproductive to me.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, the only type of character that comes to mind who'd express that so bluntly is one that's meant to be an ass. or the author is really that clueless.

[(Anonymous)]

You sound like you have issues. Relax.

[(Anonymous)]

I've known for years that the character I love would find me utterly physically disgusting. I suppose the difference is that I knew that pretty early on - he's fairly open about his disgust towards fleshlings.

[blitzwing]

That's why we must love from afar--but love no less.

[(Anonymous)]

Unless the character literally said they're physically disgusted by anyone who's not a petite white female, I think you're looking too deeply into things.

[(Anonymous)]

This is what I thought. It sounds like the character has a "type" and since the type isn't what OP looks like, they took it really personally.

I dunno man. You can't force people to find something attractive. And just cuz someone doesn't find you attractive doesn't mean they hate you. I like tall, scrawny guys, but that doesn't mean I find sort, stout guys disgusting.

[(Anonymous)]

Oh no. Fictional characters do not find me attractive. ;_;

[(Anonymous)]

Huh, that's weird. In my masturbatory fantasies, they ALL find me attractive. And share my fetishes.

[(Anonymous)]

It's fun having an imagination! No fictional character I've ever been attracted to would have to settle for me in real life, but that's what fake life is for.

[(Anonymous)]

I know I felt this way when I realized that David Willis thought asexuals didn't qualify as human.

[feotakahari]

Um, what? I looked up what he's written about asexual characters, and didn't find anything like that.

[(Anonymous)]

It's piecing together several different things. His only asexual character is a robot, and he frequently writes storylines where people are shamed for having no sex drive, culminating in a strip in which he yells at the audience for a lack of knowledge with regards to vibrators. He's not going to say it out loud because he wants credit for being accepting, but it's pretty clear what he thinks.

[(Anonymous)]

This happens even worse in movies. They use a rather crude and insulting shorthand for attractive/unattractive people.

I never noticed it until I sat next to a larger friend while watching that Ray Charles biopic. There's a scene where he feels how attractive a lady is by feeling how fat her wrist is. My friend did not find that amusing and I'm ashamed to say I never noticed how I never really noticed that kind of thing before. Now, I've noticed it happens continually.

[elephantinegrace]

I used to wish Dumbledore was my dad. When I grew up and realized just how manipulative he was, I avoided the books for a while until I stop feeling that way. It doesn't mean I don't like the character, but I can appreciate how well the character was written.

[(Anonymous)]

Well, you're alive.

[4thofeleven]

I am going to assume based on the choice of image that this secret is about being disapointed with a sequel to L. Rom Hubbard's Dianetics.

[(Anonymous)]

I had the same thought. I don't think L. Ron would find ANY of us attractive, though.

Man, am I looking forward to that HBO docu on Scientology.

Transcript

[(Anonymous)]

Image: an erupting volcano

Text: Rankly, it’s really fucking hurtful to discover in a surprise sequel that a character you have loved with your entire heart years would not only NOT like you as a person, but would be physically disgusted by you as a person.

I’m really fucking sorry that I’m not a petite, White, female. Not all of us can be everyone’s vision of perfection. Some of us are fat and ugly or tall and fan-fucking-tastic! Fyvm, author in question. You were a disappointment as a person before I read your book and more so after I ready your book.

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

Whether fictional characters would be attracted to me or not has never really been a consideration, since the sort of fiction I favour would have me being "Random Person on the Left" and they'd never even notice me there anyway (or I'd be running away as fast as my fat ass can go).

[(Anonymous)]

sorry OP, that sounds harsh. I can imagine it feels a bit like betrayel that your sympathies are not returned/that you get simplified to unattractive by said character.

[(Anonymous)]

I feel like that with character comments about weight a lot, maybe because those seem to have (and be accepted with) a lot more visceral disgust than, idk, hair color or cup size. (Also, I can't think of that many times when a character has overtly called people of color "disgusting" unless they were depicted as a racist or at best a complete social incompetent (think staff of The Office.) I don't think that's true in real life (in terms of fat being "the last acceptable prejudice" or whatever. . .NOPE), but at least in the books and shows I see, that's how it has been