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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2015-11-13 07:22 pm

[ SECRET POST #3236 ]


⌈ Secret Post #3236 ⌋

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

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[Video Games, The Last Of Us]


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[Akagami no Shirayukihime]


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[Nameless ~The one thing you must recall~]


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(The Librarians, Cassandra Cillian)


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08. [SPOILERS for Room (2015)]




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09. [SPOILERS for Hemlock Grove seasons 2 & 3]



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10. [WARNING for incest]

[Game of Thrones]















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Re: Rant Thread

(Anonymous) 2015-11-14 01:53 am (UTC)(link)
This feels stupid but I'm so annoyed by all the people being like "OH NO JAPAN" right now. It's like none of them actually read the article they're linking. The earthquake was off the coast and the tsunami was 30 cm tall. That's ONE FOOT. There are bigger waves on the Great Lakes.

Japan is fine. Other areas in the world are not.

Re: Rant Thread

(Anonymous) 2015-11-14 02:13 am (UTC)(link)
a foot of water can go quite far across flat surface. while damage isn't immediately obvious to people, that settled water does major long term damage, kills crops, poisons drinking water and destroys buildings/roads/walkways. not to mention the spread of disease and disease spreading insects.

so...yeah, re-evaluate. Just because it wasn't a big loud event that "looks not fine" doesn't mean it doesn't fuck things up. especially in areas all ready trying to recover, it just adds an extra layer of damage to existing efforts.

and...people can give a shit about multiple places at once. you don't have one location care quota per day. it's not a competition.

Re: Rant Thread

(Anonymous) 2015-11-14 02:20 am (UTC)(link)
There was no flooding and no damage.

Literally nothing happened.
fishnchips: (Eh)

Re: Rant Thread

[personal profile] fishnchips 2015-11-14 08:05 am (UTC)(link)
The thing is that people are mindlessly parroting the "18.000 dead or missing" number without any of them doing a quick date check on that info.
To rehash the whole "pray for Japan" thing now when literally nothing happened is a bit weird. The biggest news in Japan right now is the things that are/have been happening in Paris.

Re: Rant Thread

(Anonymous) 2015-11-14 06:26 am (UTC)(link)
It's kind of dumb, yes.

1) Given recent history, you cannot possibly blame people for feeling a tiny bit of panic when they hear the word "tsunami". I mean come on:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_T%C5%8Dhoku_earthquake_and_tsunami
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Indian_Ocean_earthquake_and_tsunami

Yes, this tsunami is not the same magnitude and so far no damage has been reported. But people remember, and they worry and this is not at ALL unreasonable. If your house burned down and you lost your family ten years ago, you'd probably get worried if you just saw a little bit of smoke coming out of your newly rebuilt house, yes? And anyone who told you that you were making a big fuss over nothing would be an insensitive dick.

2) People expressing concern over one part of the world does not take anything away from any other part of the world. Empathy does not work that way. Let's say my 87 year old grandma has fallen and broken a hip. That's very serious for her, and naturally her family would be very worried. Is it as serious as all the people who died in Paris today? Well, no. But here's the thing: pain and suffering is not a contest. We're not awarding medals to people or countries who are suffering the most, and we don't shush people or countries we judge to be suffering less than others. I can feel sorrow for Paris and its people and still be concerned about my grandma. People who tell me that I should pipe down about my grandma because of Paris are being insensitive dicks.