[ SECRET POST #3116 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3116 ⌋

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

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[Fire Emblem: Fates]


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[Rebecca Black, Friday]


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 027 secrets from Secret Submission Post #445.
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.

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General comments:

(If the thread contains spoilery/triggery content please post as 2nd comment so it collapses!)

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Games thread!

Transcript by OP

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Image: The moment from the Lion King's "Can You Feel the Love Tonight?" where Nala licks Simba. She's looking up at him seductively, while he stares at her in surprise.

Text: For some reason, the animation as Nala slowly sinks into the grass here creeps me out. It always looks like she's dying to me.

(Secret because MAN this is an irrational thing to be unsettled by.)

Transcript by OP

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I want to make animated adaptations of my favourite fanfics (for non-animation fandoms). But I’m not capable.
So more realistically, I’d be happy to make comic adaptations if I ever improve my drawing skills.

S!B: My main lofty creative goal is to make things twice removed from original content? And it’s not old public domain “remixing it is mainstream!” stuff.

Transcript by OP

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About a decade ago, I would copy/paste fanfic into a word document and print it at the school library so I could read it in class, or at home without dial-up.

One of these fic was Cake. It blew me away. It was by turns subtly unsettling and starkly horrific.
I re-read my printed copy over and over, and even listed it as my favorite fic on my blog.

Last week I decided to read it again for the first time in years. I was worried that now I'd find aspects problematic, like the parts with nonwhite cultures, or Blair getting baptized so he can travel with missionaries. But all that seemed fine as I reread. Then I got to the bottom of the website and discovered a link to part 2!

It turns out I'd only ever read the first of three parts. I don't know how I missed the link when I initially copy/pasted it ten years ago.

I was excited to finally finish the story, but the more I read the less perfect it became. When it was only part one, it was a story about past and present trauma closing in on Blair as he tried to keep sane, with no real resolution. It was about horror threatening to overwhelm mundane day-to-day life. It was abstract and atmospheric.

Looking back, it's weird that I thought that was a complete story. But I did, and I liked it bettter that way.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm honestly not sure whether or not you're defending Wesley here, or calling out some other person you know.

That said, I would also say that I think that whatever qualities you think Wesley has, he also has the quality of being extremely annoying. So it makes sense that someone would not like him even if they could sympathize with him.

[kaijinscendre]

I still have a flash drive full of copied fanfic because I the internet at my house was terrible. I used to have them on floppy disks but well, those are not used anymore. I also used to copy/paste fanfic to myself so I could read them in my email at school!

[(Anonymous)]

Hahahaha.

[(Anonymous)]

Shut up, Wesley.

But actually, I understand it completely. Lots of people hate people who are just like them, and if they're self-aware enough those people usually hate themselves too.

[(Anonymous)]

You're not wrong.

[(Anonymous)]

Well, just this week she finally came out and said that she thinks Cosby did it, though it's kind of awful that it took her so long. Her excuse was rather flimsy, too... something about how she thought that she didn't want to say anything before it went to trial, but since the state of limitations has expired, she's okay with pronouncing him guilty now?

[(Anonymous)]

Roman Polanski, and now Bill Cosby. JFC

[(Anonymous)]

I didn't even feel like much of an outcase (at least, not for being young and supersmart) but I still identified with Wesley. Wesley Crusher 4-ever, man!

[helenadax]

I think she's changed her mind now.

[(Anonymous)]

I just didn't like Al. He scares me. :(

[(Anonymous)]

Bhaahaha!

Hurt/comfort: Can one exist without the other?

[(Anonymous)]

Do you think that when someone writes a fic with a lot of whump and hurt characters, the fanfic author should follow up with some comfort and healing?

To me, it seems like an incomplete story without the comfort. What do you think?

[esteefee]

I loved Cake, OP. I agree with you there about the first part being tightest, but I will never give up any bit of what Martha wrote, so.

You do know Cake is part of a trilogy of stories, as well, right? :D

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, that's what I thought.

Re: Hurt/comfort: Can one exist without the other?

[(Anonymous)]

It's funny, I would normally frame it the other way - do you have to have some hurt to justify the comfort, or can you just have nothing but fluffy comfort?

I think my tastes are somewhat different from most of the rest of fandom.

But in any case, I think it's fine to just have whatever you think is interesting. If you want to just do hurt, that's your prerogative. That's kind of the whole point of fandom.

[(Anonymous)]

There's a new Woody Allen movie coming out soon.

[(Anonymous)]

What show is this, please?