[ SECRET POST #3077 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3077 ⌋

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

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02.
[Lackadaisy Cats]


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03.
(Gorillaz)


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04.
(Tripping over you)


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05.
[Stitchers]


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06.
[Dragon Age]


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07.
[The Mighty Boosh]


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08.
[LOVE LIVE!]


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09.
[Brooklyn 99]


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10.
[Mad Max Fury Road]


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11.
[Maggie Stiefvater]


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12.
[Emily Alice Ovenden]


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13.
[When Marnie Was There/Omoide no Marnie]


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14.
(Rick and Morty)


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15.
[Suppression]


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16.
[Wall-e]


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17.
[Ancillary Justice & Ancillary Sword]







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Comments

Is that really a thing?

[(Anonymous)]

What are some things you see all the time in fiction, but have never seen or known of IRL? Or at least not often?

Re: Is that really a thing?

[(Anonymous)]

I'll go - I was thinking about movies/books where kids go to camp and sleep over for two weeks. I can't think of a single camp where that happens, and outside of some friends who went to sleepaway camps for specific purposes (i.e. music camp), I don't know anyone who was ever at one. Technically I did go to a camp of sorts in school, but it was also with my school during the school year, and I think it was just a few days. But I also wonder if it's just not as common anymore, now that more communities have day camps and stuff?

Re: Is that really a thing?

[shortysc22]

It was well-known enough in my area (Northeast US) that I usually had 1-2 girls from my class and 2-4 boys from my class go away to sleepaway camp. I almost signed up to do it one year because my friend did it. They would do 1 week, 3 week, and 6 week camps and she'd go for the whole 6 weeks.

Re: Is that really a thing?

[(Anonymous)]

Hmm, when I was little I used to go to a few camps during the summer that were held by our local church. They weren't religious camps really, just organized by the church, and our parents sent us there cos they were relatively cheap. What we did there mostly was playing and outdoors-y activities.

So they're a thing, but I don't know how common.

(my country's Lutheran and so were the churches that arranged the camping trips)

Re: Is that really a thing?

[(Anonymous)]

I grew up in the southeastern US and lots of my friends went to sleep away camp for 6-8 weeks every summer. I never got to go because my parents couldn't afford it. #poorkidproblems

Re: Is that really a thing?

[herpymcderp]

Yep, these exist. They're usually ass expensive, but they exist.

Re: Is that really a thing?

[(Anonymous)]

Yes, there are a few in my area and I went to one once.

What always baffled me was that in all the media about summer camp (including those "How to survive camp" books that were also popular when I was a kid... dunno about now) it was implied that the norm was for the camp to last all summer, not just two weeks. Both the camps I went to lasted two weeks and I've never heard of a real summer camp being longer.

Re: Is that really a thing?

[(Anonymous)]

I think it is still a thing, but maybe not as common as they used to be? I went to a few sleepaway camps when I was a kid, but they were usually only for a week or so and they weren't typical of the stuff you see in books/movies. Mine were focused on a specific subject, like science or music or whatever, so you didn't spend as much time doing canoeing or nature hikes.

Re: Is that really a thing?

[philstar22]

I did it one year and hated it. My sister loved it and kept doing it.

Re: Is that really a thing?

[kallanda_lee]

I've been at camps that last 1-2 weeks (even as an adult, but I'm weird)

[calaidi]

The Girl Scout camp I went to every summer had sleep-away programs that lasted anywhere from three days to two weeks, with some of the counselor/riding staff training camps lasting three weeks. Our council still has two camps like that, as well as day camps or troop camping. The Boy Scouts have all that stuff too.

What I've always thought was weird were camps that seem to last the whole summer, but I've never been to a non-Scout camp so.

Re: Is that really a thing?

[flipthefrog.livejournal.com]

Shit I went for a month every summer for like 8 years and loved it. Even did the counselor-in-training thing too. Anybody wants to know more about this feel free to ask.

Re: Is that really a thing?

[otakugal15]

Two weeks was never how long it was for us, though one year I think it nearly hit two, but me and my BFF went to a camp on the other side of the state that was a general summer camp, went hiking, rafting, spelunking, arts/crafts, etc etc.

It was fun.

Re: Is that really a thing?

[meredith44]

I first went to a two week sleep over horseback riding camp when I was eight. I continued to go to sleep-over camps for a week or a two at a time until I was 13 or so? It could just be a weird thing from when I grew up, though, as I'm old.

Re: Is that really a thing?

[diet_poison]

I used to go to a five-day camp every summer and loved it. I never went to a two-week one but I feel like I knew people who did?

Re: Is that really a thing?

[(Anonymous)]

I went to Girl Scout sleep-away camp for about 5 years in a row and it was awesome. There were different program tracks you coud do, like hiking or horseback riding. I did canoeing. The last year, we went off to the Boundary Waters for three weeks! Yeah, that wasn't the same as being "at cmp" but in earlier years, I did all the crafts and sing-alongs and stuff.

Re: Is that really a thing?

[ariakas]

They exist, but they're much rarer than the 5-days/1-week camps. My parents were fishermen for a while, which means they were gone all summer, so my older brother and I went to quite a few of the longer ones when we were kids.

Cubs/scouts also had long camps.

Re: Is that really a thing?

[(Anonymous)]

Definitely real. I went to one as a kid and worked there a few summers as a teen. They had one-week and two-week sessions, and some girls' parents signed them up for multiple sessions so they'd be there for anywhere from three weeks to the whole summer. Mine is an all-girl camp, but there were several "neighboring" (within an hour or so) Scout and co-ed camps that functioned similarly. I know the camp I attended is still around and still doing its thing: hiking, canoeing, archery, horseback riding, arts and crafts, stupid games and pranks, etc. It's never occurred to me that people might find this fictional, lol. I grew up in the southeast US.

Re: Is that really a thing?

[(Anonymous)]

I knocked on a lot of doors as a kid selling girl scout cookies so I could spend two weeks in a tent each summer picking ticks off my sleeping bag. We'd canoe in a pond, swim in the pool, make lumpy crafts, build campfires and cook stuff, sing songs, etc. Nothing too complex, mostly just hanging out in the woods. Cool change for girls from Midwestern suburbs.

Re: Is that really a thing?

[(Anonymous)]

It's a North American thing.

Re: Is that really a thing?

[(Anonymous)]

High schools where everyone is having sex with everyone all the time forever

High school had sex, for sure, but everyone pretended like they had a lot more of it than they actually did

Re: Is that really a thing?

[(Anonymous)]

That's how mine was. And honestly, "having sex with everyone all the time forever" just got you labeled a slut. It was pretty obvious I wasn't having sex, and no one ever called me a prude. Actually, I think my sexually active friends liked that I was more innocent.

Re: Is that really a thing?

[mekkio]

The romantic comedy trope of where when the two leads first meet each other and hate each others' guts. (Because often he's too wacky and childlike and she is too prissy and uptight blah, blah, blah) But by the end, they fall in love and they can't keep their hands off each other.

Yeah, I've never seen that happen in real life. It's always those two meet, butt heads and either go their separate ways because they DO NOT want to work or even see each other or keep on working together and keep on hating each other.

They never fall in love. They never hook up.

Re: Is that really a thing?

[(Anonymous)]

This is only on TV, but I always notice it and it drives me crazy: Xmas/holiday presents that have been wrapped so that lids come off boxes without taking off the wrapping paper. I have never, ever seen this done in real life and it's so weird. (I know why the props department would do it like that, it just looks so fake!)

Re: Is that really a thing?

[caerbannog]

Being whistled at.

From a small country state where it never happened - moved to capital city, was confused why friend wanted to walk around the builders, walked pass the builders and got whistled at, was mostly baffled and "I didn't think it was a real thing"!

...aside from some drunken car hollars I've never experienced it again tho so *shrug*