[ SECRET POST #3167 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3167 ⌋

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

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[fscom]

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Transcript by OP

[fscom]

I think the reason I’ve never embraced my interest in spy fiction is that I relate to ambiguous allegiances and identities on a pathetically low-stakes level.

So I don’t even want to give people the chance to suspect that aside from liking it for the obvious entertainment value, I maybe fancy myself having things in common with cunning, mysterious fictional spies despite just being an unaffectionate, private person with few close relationships.

[(Anonymous)]

So - I'm sorry, just trying to make sure I'm grasping your meaning - you're reticent to get super into spy fiction because you identify with it too much?

(Also, and unrelated, but spy fiction rules)

[(Anonymous)]

I read it as OP feels pathetic liking it because they like to fantasize they are the spies and end up glamorizing their own negative traits

OP

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, that's a less rambling translation of it.

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

Ah, don't worry about it, everyone does that. I think that's one of the things that draws us to fiction in the first place. We know that our problems and habits are small, but they FEEL large to us because they're our own experience. So we enjoy seeing those same problems and habits drawn on a larger scale, because it creates a universe in which our lives are as important as we secretly feel them to be. Does that make sense?

OP

[(Anonymous)]

It does make sense :)

It's touching in a way, now that I think of it like that.

[(Anonymous)]

Heh. Kind of how I feel about gloomy loner assassins (Keller, Leon, Martin Blank, and so forth). Although that's not really a secret. I was in a bad place in my early twenties and those were the characters in fiction I identified with, due to their personal isolation.

[(Anonymous)]

But spy stories are so alluring that you just have to get over your insecurities and GLOMP them all over. I recently binge watched The Americans and think I have to do it again soon. Or Homeland? Or... I need to roll around in a spy story right now!