[ SECRET POST #3253 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3253 ⌋

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

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02.
[Fallout]


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03.
[Colonel Fitzwilliam, Pride and Prejudice 1995 miniseries]


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04.
[Master and Commander/Aubrey/Maturin series]


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05.
[Undertale]


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06.
[Justified]


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07.
[Fury, Don/Boyd]


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08.
(The Pioneer Woman/Ree Drummond)


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09.
[Interworld]











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Comments

[herpymcderp]

Kinda hard to have a sibling relationship with someone who isn't your sibling, isn't it?

[(Anonymous)]

Not really.

[(Anonymous)]

(na)
Except there's more than one kind of sibling relationship.

(for the record, I know that people mean an specific idealized relationship when they talk about "sibling relationship", but the fact that it's possible to have that kind of close relationship with friends makes the expression kind of senseless)

[herpymcderp]

Yes, really. I'm talking any kind of sibling, blood relation or otherwise. Part of the sibling factor comes from having the same parental influence and formative environment.

You don't get that with a non-sibiling, even if you grew up in close contact.

[(Anonymous)]

well, I guess someone doesn't have any blood brothers

[(Anonymous)]

You must not have a super, super close friend. I have a friend who is more of a sibling to me than any of my actual siblings.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't really understand the "like a sibling" relationship either. Mostly, because of the implication that siblings share close bonds that are different than regular friendships. Of course, I'm not close to my sisters at all so that may be why I dislike the term.

[(Anonymous)]

NA

I get this, and I agree. Plenty of people like their friends more than they like their siblings, not arguing that. But actual siblings (at least ones that grew up together) tend to be kind of bound together, in a way. I mean, they might even hate each other, but it's uncommon to see someone who can sever ties with their sibling completely, and even more uncommon to see someone who severs ties with their sibling and then slowly becomes indifferent to them. It seems like for most people, even if they haven't seen their sibling for twenty years, there's still something there, binding them together.

[(Anonymous)]

Sibling-like (sibling-y). And no. Not that hard.

[herpymcderp]

Sibling-like is not the same thing as an actual relationship where you were in the same house with someone who you identified as a family member with the same social privilege as yourself.

[intrigueing]

Dude, who cares? It's obvious what the OP meant.

[diet_poison]

...no?

The whole point is that your relationship with this particular friend resembles one you'd have with a sibling and that's why it's special.

[herpymcderp]

Yeah but it isn't though. It can resemble one, but it's not a sibling relationship in a few pretty key respects.

[(Anonymous)]

Obviously. But what is the point of pointing this out? It's irrelevant. Unless you're being purposely obtuse, it's not hard to understand what the OP meant. Or have you honestly never heard anyone call their best friends their brother or sister?

[diet_poison]

I would venture to say some peoples' sibling-like relationships with their friends are closer, and more classically sibling-like, than those with their siblings. What "key respects" are you referring to outside of being legally related to someone?

[(Anonymous)]

I genuinely thought that my use of the term "sibling-y" would indicate that I meant in a metaphorical sense. However, since I guess you didn't get it, let me rephrase: "sibling-like", "sibling-esque", "brothers from another mother", "sisters from another mister".

Does that clarify things?

[herpymcderp]

It does, because I wasn't sure how to interpret "sibling-y".

[(Anonymous)]

While it's pretty obvious what the term means, I get Herpy's point. Being a sibling with someone, an actual sibling, doesn't always equate into being best friends. Lots of siblings have rough relationships or are not close. And a "sibling" relationship actually is just a best friend.

[(Anonymous)]

Not really. There's a reason the phrase "I love you like a sister/brother" is a thing.

[(Anonymous)]

Are you the type of person who thinks you can only call people you are blood related to, "family"?

[herpymcderp]

Obviously not. Or if you didn't read the other comments, then absolutely not, no. I am very pro adoption.

[(Anonymous)]

ITT Herpy proves he has no friends

[herpymcderp]

If this is an attempt to get a look at my Facebook then you are out of luck.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't get why people are getting so worked up over this. There's a difference between a sibling and a very close, sibling-like friend, even if you'd considered the friend closer than the sibling.

[(Anonymous)]

After reading through this thread, I'm more inclined to be herpy's friend than anybody else's here. Just sayin'.