[ SECRET POST #3234 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3234 ⌋

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

01.
[Golden Girls]


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02.
[Boku no Hero Academia]


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03.
[C.S. Lewis vs. J.R.R. Tolkien]


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04.
[Pokémon, Leah Remini]


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05.
[Tales of Zestiria]


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06.
[The Man In The High Castle]


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07.
[Marjorie Liu, Sana Takeda, Monstress]


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08.
[Sleepy Hollow]








Notes:

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Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 2 - repeat ].
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Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[forgottenjester]

Yeah, I wanna live in a house with my friends plus what you're talking about. People tell me that's something only young people do when they're saving money. "Then they marry and want their own place and you'll be alone! So go get married too!"

But hey, I'mma keep my dream if you keep yours, OP.

[a_potato]

I feel like someone should tell those people that that's a really bad reason to get married.

[forgottenjester]

I've tried telling people that. They don't really get it. They just assume I'm going to find someone I want to be with... as an aromantic asexual. 'Cause, you know, maybe I'm wrong and the right person just isn't here yet and I'm so closed minded, blah blah blah. It's by rote now. (So by the assumption that I have to fall in love at some point then obviously I should married to this hypothetical person and problem solved. Because finding a person to bind yourself to forever and ever is easy.)

I mean, one lady was so insistent and worried for me because of it she literally lectured me about it for over an hour.

Either way, makes me believe in my dream more simply out of spite.

[(Anonymous)]

I mean, one lady was so insistent and worried for me because of it she literally lectured me about it for over an hour.

Good lord, seriously?

I do not get people who do that. Why in the world do random strangers care so much whether or not someone gets married? My mom said she had co-workers asking her when she was going to be a grandmother, and they always seemed really surprised when she said she hadn't asked me or my sister when we'd have children. Just...what the hell business is it of theirs?

[forgottenjester]

Yes seriously, unfortunately. It would have been shorter but I was at a gathering so I couldn't leave and she was drunk. And she wasn't a stranger. She's in the group of "possibly can become family by marriage".

Which is why she was apparently so damn concerned about my "happiness". But whatever, I tuned her out and thought of fic writing in my head.

If it happens again though I'll just tell her I'm straight and "working on it". At least that will get her to leave me alone. I've done it before. It gets people off your back.

[(Anonymous)]

So ... a handful of my friends and I are all currently mid-to-late 30s, and single. A couple of years ago one person started talking about founding a retirement colony in Hawaii or the like, where we'd buy some sizable acreage, and plop down prefab minihouses, and we'd have a community garden, where one person is responsible for the beans, and one person for the cucumbers, and one person for the tomatoes, and so on. And there'd be a barn/large shed for bike storage (we all do endurance touring together now, but we figure we might need to transition to trikes when we're older).

I don't have all the numbers on me right now, but we ran the numbers projecting cost of living for 2050 (when we're hitting retirement) and what the buy in would be, and how much space for different numbers of people.

So yeah, basically my friends and I have planned our own retirement center/commune. I feel like there are worse retirement plans.

[forgottenjester]

I want this! Oh my word! That sounds so great! I'm so happy for you.