[ SECRET POST #2990 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2990 ⌋

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

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(Transformers Prime)


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(Transformers Prime)


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[Wish / Clamp / Manga in this artstyle in general]


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[Terry Pratchett]


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[STRAIN: Strategic Armored Infantry]


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[CSI Cyber]


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[POTC & One Piece]


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[Marvel Comics' Black Widow]


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[James Corden, new host of the LATE LATE SHOW (and for DOCTOR WHO)]


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[Harry Potter]


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[Fallen London]









Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 017 secrets from Secret Submission Post #427.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

Re: Inspired by the thread with the aromantic person who dates

[(Anonymous)]

My first instinct was "no" but...maybe it is possible.

I've always thought of being "in love" as implying romance because that's the context I've always heard it in, and I've never really questioned it for some reason, but if you feel like you're in love with someone in a platonic way, why not?

I mean, after all, you frequently hear mothers talk about being in love with their children and obviously that isn't romantic.

I'm gonna have to think about this...I've never looked at it this way before, and I'm actually finding it really interesting.

Re: Inspired by the thread with the aromantic person who dates

[(Anonymous)]

I've... never heard a mother say she was in love with her child. Not saying it doesn't happen, but that would get you some seriously weirded out looks where I'm from.

I think you can be in love with someone without wanting to have sex with them. But if you have no romantic feelings towards someone, you might love them but you're not in love with them. At best, you're "in love with them" in the same way that people are "in love with rock climbing." It's a hyperbolic statement indicating that you like them more than you like a lot of other things.

Re: Inspired by the thread with the aromantic person who dates

[(Anonymous)]

ayrt

I probably should have specified, but yeah, where I'm from women say that all the time. I've definitely seen people get weirded out by it, but a lot of people (here, anyway) don't seem to find it strange, I guess because they're used to it, and because it obviously has a very different context than the usual one.

But, like I said above, my initial reaction (about the usage of the phrase) was "it's definitely romantic", and I had to actually stop and think about it to realize it was the same wording. So if someone wanted to say it in the same context about a friend as a mom would about her kid (not that they necessarily feel parental towards their friend, just that it's not romantic), then I suppose it makes a certain amount of sense, but that's obviously not the standard usage.

I think I personally would probably stick to using it in the romantic context just to avoid confusion, and if someone told me they were in love with someone else, my first thought would definitely be that they meant it in a romantic way. But if someone wants to use it in other ways, I'm not going to say they can't. Especially since people can't even seem to agree on what romantic love is...so like if someone says "I'm in love with this person" and their feelings are what I'd consider romantic, but they don't call it romantic, it's hard to say.

I don't know, language can be confusing!