[ SECRET POST #3205 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3205 ⌋

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

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[Jurassic World]


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03.
[Anthony Bourdain]


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[Puzzle&Dragons (mobile app game)]


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05.
[Fear the Walking Dead, Alicia and Nick]


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[Hannah Pilkes, viner]


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[Hetalia, Xenosaga]


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[Undertale]


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[School-Live!]


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10.
[Over the Garden Wall]









Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 042 secrets from Secret Submission Post #458.
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.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I can't get into fandoms that have grown adults acting like this

sure, it's in-character for some, but when we're talking live action fandoms and characters that are 30, 40+ being written by tumblr as going to slumber parties and wearing footsie pajamas or apparently getting into nerd hobbies it just hits me with secondhand embarrassment so hard. why not get into a fandom where the characters are younger if you want them to act like this? why make somewhat well adjusted adults act like preteens?

[(Anonymous)]

Excuse you, i know plenty of 30, 40, 50 yo that still play D&D. Where in the world was it written that RPGs had to be a preteen thing? Get over yourself.

[(Anonymous)]

nayrt
This specific example isn't necessarily the most fitting, but I get what anon is saying. And even if there are adults who play D&D, I'm not sold on these specific characters doing it. There needs to be some convincing done.
And hte rest of theiri points, like footsie pajamas and sleepovers and stuff are valid. I see that everywhere, and it's so cringeworthy.

[(Anonymous)]

NA

If they were talking about something that actually mattered, I might give them the point. Like if they were protesting a story in which a character cries in their room every night because they're not sure if [insert crush's name] even knows they exist, then okay, they's behaving like a preteen and it's kind of a weird choice to make for an adult character.

But the examples anon is giving and objecting to aren't actually examples of immaturity. They's examples of playfulness and unself-consciousness.

why make somewhat well adjusted adults act like preteens?

Part of being a "well adjusted adult" for a lot of people is their ability to not lose their sense of youth and playfulness. When I see celebrities and such wearing footie pajamas, I just think, there's a person who doesn't want life to be something limited and mundane they have to plod through. There's a person who doesn't want to become boring and routine just because they're an adult.

I hope I'm playing geeky board games when I'm forty. I hope I get the chance to have sleep overs with my adult friends because sleep overs are awesome. And I've never worn footie pajamas before, but maybe I should get on that; twenty-eight seems a good age to try them out for the first time.

[esteefee]

The problem is it's so hard to find adult-sized footie pajamas. Or hats with ears on them. Or shoes with blinky-lights in the soles. I'm tellin' ya.

[dantesspirit]

Because welladjusted adults still like to table top game?

I'm in...3, currently, running table top Pathfinder games where the ages range from 14 to 60+. I came to AD&D in my 20s, my husband in his late teens, my BiL grew up with his *parents* playing it (they, incidentally, play in one of our current games).

Tabletop gaming is not relagated to simply preteens.