fandomsecrets | [ SECRET POST #3077 ]

[ SECRET POST #3077 ]

⌈ Secret Post #3077 ⌋

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

01.

__________________________________________________

02.

[Lackadaisy Cats]

__________________________________________________

03.

(Gorillaz)

__________________________________________________

04.

(Tripping over you)

__________________________________________________

05.

[Stitchers]

__________________________________________________

06.

[Dragon Age]

__________________________________________________

07.

[The Mighty Boosh]

__________________________________________________

08.

[LOVE LIVE!]

__________________________________________________

09.

[Brooklyn 99]

__________________________________________________

10.

[Mad Max Fury Road]

__________________________________________________

11.

[Maggie Stiefvater]

__________________________________________________

12.

[Emily Alice Ovenden]

__________________________________________________

13.

[When Marnie Was There/Omoide no Marnie]

__________________________________________________

14.

(Rick and Morty)

__________________________________________________

15.

[Suppression]

__________________________________________________

16.

[Wall-e]

__________________________________________________

17.

[Ancillary Justice & Ancillary Sword]

Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 04 pages, 086 secrets from Secret Submission Post #440.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Anyone have or know of bad experiences meeting people you/they admired, whether celebrities or just so-called "regular" people who you'd nonetheless wanted to meet/get to know better?

A friend of mine arranged for a well-known (if not famous) writer to give a talk, and said she was very difficult to work with. In fairness though, as much as I loved this writer's memoirs, it was pretty obvious in them that she's not the nicest person. (And given what she's been through, I kind of don't blame her.) It didn't ruin my friend's enjoyment of the memoirs, but it was a disappointment.

Carl Sagan

Deets?

This happens a lot when I follow famous people on Twitter. As it turns out, most authors are arrogant douchebags.

OMG, I followed Joyce Carol Oates and unfollowed her within five minutes.

It hasn't changed my love of her work, but... wow.

I also think celebrities, as a general rule, don't understand that you can't unleash stupid crap at random on twitter. Maybe I should say people as a general rule, but certainly if you have 1,000 or more followers. Twitter isn't the place for crabby kitchen blather. It won't end well.

I didn't know that there were rules regarding what Twitter is the place for.

Eh, I've generally done fairly well in terms of celebrities I like not being giantic assholes, but if I had to pick one creative type who fits, it'd be Doug TenNapel. I've enjoyed some of his works (the Earthworm Jim cartoon is still one of my favorites, and I liked how he handled the Catholicism in "Black Cherry", despite him being some Protestant denomination. And 'Catscratch' was funny at times), but hokey smokes, does he ever come off as sanctimonious and cantankerous on Twitter. I'd followed him for a brief while, and I eventually had to unfollow him. Even if I agreed with him on a few topics (disclosure, my political leanings are straight down the middle), he was just so... Unpleasant at times.

Still enjoy his creative output, but TenNapel's really a case where you're better off separating the artist from the art, IMHO.

Edited 2015-06-07 20:22 (UTC)

Lynn Flewelling. Not that famous, and not someone I really admired per se, but an author that had a mailing list back in the 90's, which I signed up for out of curiosity.

Her stuff wasn't even that great, but she acted like a complete tyrant. She would delete and ban people for trying to start discussions about world meta that she "didn't agree" with. And she would also get extremely butthurt if anyone tried to post fanworks.

Ohmygod. *clutches you* Yes, sounds like you caught on faster than I did because I went beyond mailing list (hey she gave us freebies!) but dearlord she is such a fandom tyrant. I ended up bailing around the same time she posted that weird set of mini smut stories about Alec and Seregil because she went like 10x over board on policing everyone's interpretation and her membership in the LJ group and the constant whining when people preferred her other series over nightrunner (I LIKE THE BONE DOLLS TWIN MORE OKAY IT WAS DIFFERENT AND INTERESTING AND KINDA CREEPY)

Edited 2015-06-07 23:31 (UTC)

Ugh. Well this was back circa... '98? I want to say '98. I left right after she kicked someone off the ML for daring to suggest her "fae people" or whatever the fuck they were called were similar to elves.

Good lord, I have never encountered a bitchier person. I'm glad her books never became a real phenomenon.

They are though, THEY ARE.
Damn there's probably been a while lotta drama since and idk about it :(

I still like bone dolls twin tho

Nah, on an international scale they have very minor popularity. Even as the fantasy genre goes, there are far more popular authors from the same era.

For example, she's not on the same level as Terry Goodkind, Piers Anthony, Robert Jordan, JKR, GRRM, Anne McCaffrey, Ursula K. LeGuin... etc. in terms of readership. Not even close.

However, her books are fairly niche and full of floofy gay boys, so I imagine she still has a following.

I never really followed her but I stopped reading her books after I saw a post during the whole HP Lexicon ordeal where she attempted to justify her not allowing fanworks while saying JKR was unjustified in stopping the Lexicon publication.

I wasn't that keen on the third Nightrunners book to begin with (and I also preferred the Bone Twins trilogy) and that just soured me to her works completely.

Not really admire, more enjoyed their music years ago, but the Lost Prophets. I wondered to myself a couple of months ago on a whim what happened to them... then found out that one of them was a pedo. Yeah, fuckthatshit.

funny you mention them, they came on the radio the other day when I was in the car with a friend and I mentioned how much I used to love their music back in high school and my friend told me about them and my face was just "oh"

you do kinda have to feel bad for the other dudes in that band

Unless they covered up for him.

Philip Davis was in a harry and I didn't want to impose.

Are you saying he was short with you because he was in a hurry, or are you saying you didn't bother even approaching him because he was in a hurry?

My friend approached him after a movie event and took an autograph. We were togeather. I'm forever butthurt that I didn't shake hands with him. ;_; Or didn't get a smile. It's a tragedy of my life.

Bette Midler donated computers (or money for them) to my high school and came to make sure they were being used -- they funnily enough went missing barely a month after her inspection. She literally didn't say a word nor did she smile the whole time she was in my class. At one point I accidentally got in her way and we did that weird get out of the way dance. I apologized profusely but she barely acknowledged me. =( It wasn't a bad experience just a bit disappointing.

(She also wasn't wearing makeup, I guess so not make herself well known/familiar. But, uh, wow. Most of what you see of her face on screen is like seventy-five+ percent makeup.)

Oh yes many. Some of them were actually surprisingly good though. Some voice actors were really nice and normal. With others, it really surprised me how paranoid, judging and self-absorbed they were. But I guess with actors you're going to have people like that along with the nicer ones. It really put me off anime for a while though, and makes me much less enthusiastic about conventions. :/

FYI you aren't that famous and no your acting isn't all that great, neither is your profession. Get over yourself.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

[ SECRET POST #3077 ]

Inspired by #11

Re: Inspired by #11

Re: Inspired by #11

Re: Inspired by #11

Re: Inspired by #11

Re: Inspired by #11

Re: Inspired by #11

Re: Inspired by #11

Re: Inspired by #11

Re: Inspired by #11

Re: Inspired by #11

Re: Inspired by #11

Re: Inspired by #11

Re: Inspired by #11

Re: Inspired by #11

Re: Inspired by #11

Re: Inspired by #11

Re: Inspired by #11

Re: Inspired by #11

Re: Inspired by #11

Re: Inspired by #11

Re: Inspired by #11

Re: Inspired by #11

Re: Inspired by #11