[ SECRET POST #3269 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3269 ⌋

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

01.
[Zen Pencils]


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02.
[Laura Ingalls Wilder, The Long Winter]


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03.
[Franken Fran]


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04.
[Master of None]


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05.
[Ping Pong the Animation]


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06.
[Undertale]


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07.
[Henry Stickmin Series: Fleeing the Complex]


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08.
[Tiger and Bunny]


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09. [repeat]


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10.
[Villain Pub by How it Should Have Ended]


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11.
[Hamilton]


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12.
[Jessica Jones]












Notes:

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Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[fscom]

02. http://i.imgur.com/hOucOhD.jpg
[Laura Ingalls Wilder, The Long Winter]

[(Anonymous)]

It's amazing how seeing that artwork takes me right back to my childhood!

[ginainthekingsroad]

Me too! I knew exactly what it was right from the illustration. Loved those books. And Betsy-Tacy, and basically everything Lucy Maude Montgomery.

[loracarol]

I don't think I've ever met anyone who knew about Betsy-Tacy! :O

I haven't read those books in forever...

[vethica]

Plus one for Betsy-Tacy! I loved those books so much.

[(Anonymous)]

I love the Betsy-Tacy books! I wound up living in Milwaukee - the city Tib is from!

[(Anonymous)]

Oh wow, the Betsy-Tacy Christmases! Shopping with Winona...Mrs Ray's brass bowl...that Christmas Betsy spends in Milwaukee where she decides to be Betsye (how would you even pronounce that?). I want to cook all the awesome winter foods and have a winter picnic with a bonfire and cocoa!

Spoilers for the book

[herpymcderp]

Not sure it makes you a sadist unless you're actively enjoying the specific aspect of the family nearly freezing to death and starving over several chapters lol.

I personally just kind of liked how vivid some of the images seemed and how stark that lifestyle would be compared to our own. For example, warming hands with snow instead of warm water to prevent frostbite and the buckwheat pancakes of survival.

Re: Spoilers for the book

[(Anonymous)]

Rubbing hands with snow was the best they knew how to do. Have you ever read David Laskin's The Children's Blizzard, by any chance?

Re: Spoilers for the book

[herpymcderp]

I have not, but now I want to.

[kaijinscendre]

This was my favorite book series growing up.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't think it makes you a sadist, I think it's more that you recognize their hardships and are grateful to have the comforts that you have. There's nothing wrong with that.

[(Anonymous)]

Oh yes! Realizing that their trials makes you grateful for a fire and hot chocolate and such is a normal reaction; I do it with this book too, honest.

[(Anonymous)]

Well put. The Long Winter is one of my favorite winter reads too.

[(Anonymous)]

I really feel for the characters. The detail in the story is amazing. I don't think I'll ever forget it. It has a lot of peril. They could literally starve to death. It's their struggle to survive and the way they cope as a family, taking care of each other, sacrificing for each other, and the way it all feels that makes this such a great book. You're not a sadist, you're a human being fascinated by a compelling true story we're lucky enough to not experience, and grateful for what you have. :D

[tabaqui]

Love, love, love these books, though 'Silver Lake' is my favorite out of all of them. I was always angry at Pa in 'Long Winter' for going and stuffing himself with pancakes at the Wilders and not bringing any back for the family though I know he couldn't really do that....

[(Anonymous)]

my favorite was "Farmer Boy" because of the descriptions of the foods that the Wilder family ate.

[(Anonymous)]

Remember how they used up almost all the sugar when their parents left them home alone?

[(Anonymous)]

Yes! So much food. The doughnuts!

[(Anonymous)]

Farmer Boy had the best food descriptions in the whole series! When I was a little kid I didn't even know what half that stuff was and I still wanted to try it.

[(Anonymous)]

<3 <3 <3

[skeletal_history]

Uh, are you my twin? I re-read that book every winter for that very reason. One of the best trips of my life was visiting DeSmet, SD, and seeing the plaque on one of the buildings in town indicating how high the snow reached that year. When I lived in Montana and had to endure weeks-long spells of -30 degree weather during the winter months, that book kept my spirits up.

(Except I probably won't read the book this year because here in Pennsylvania we're having a bullshit "late April in December" winter and it's pissing me off. It's supposed to be 70 on Christmas Eve WTF GTFO)

[(Anonymous)]

(Except I probably won't read the book this year because here in Pennsylvania we're having a bullshit "late April in December" winter and it's pissing me off. It's supposed to be 70 on Christmas Eve WTF GTFO)

Oh, wow. Ugh. That ain't right :/. That would piss me off, too.

Thankfully, it's not supposed to be THAT warm here (I live in Iowa)-I think it'll be in the 30s here come Christmas Eve/Christmas Day. But the chances of us having snow by then look pretty slim, unfortunately.

[(Anonymous)]

Hey, Other Iowa Anon!

In Ames, I think we're supposed to get rain on Christmas Day. I'll miss it because I'm visiting my folks in Philadelphia and it'll be 67F. WTF.

[(Anonymous)]

I live in Wisconsin - not that warm, but it still doesn't feel like winter. It's hard to get into the Christmas spirit when it feels like March!