[ SECRET POST #3319 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3319 ⌋

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

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02.
[Homestuck]


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[Manhunter, Criminal Minds, CSI and X-Files]


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04.
[Heroes Reborn]


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05.
[Story of Seasons]


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06.
[Keanu Reeves]


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09.
[One Punch Man]


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11. http://i.imgur.com/Pc6ksVv.png
[photo of naked dude in a suggestive(?) position]


















Notes:

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Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[fscom]

03. http://i.imgur.com/CanV3wr.jpg
[Manhunter, Criminal Minds, CSI and X-Files]

[(Anonymous)]

X-Files made "FBI agent" my number one dream job since the age of 12. I still haven't grown out of that and when I saw the J. Edgar Hoover building in Washington DC two years ago, I couldn't contain my glee. Hannibal has only made this condition worse. So I feel you, OP. If only, if only...

[(Anonymous)]

Haha, I wanted to do that when I was a kid, too. Never mind the whole physical aspect and having zero coordination, I was ready to spend my life hunting down aliens and the Jersey Devil.

[pinkherring]

(same anon)
Yesssssss, it's still my dream. I get embarrassingly psyched when I daydream about it. :)

[(Anonymous)]

If they were as fun and exciting as on TV, they wouldn't be "work." They'd have so many volunteers willing to work for free.

[dreemyweird]

This really does depend on your definition of exciting. Sure, these jobs aren't the SAME as they are on TV, but I find the implication that e.g. real CSI is somehow inherently "less interesting" than TV!CSI pretty stupid.

Also, I think it's important to recognize that there are actual human lives (and deaths) involved. The desire to do flashy chemistry and say the word "classified" a lot is not a motivation that's good enough for someone to be able to perform a task like this.

/no fun allowed

[(Anonymous)]

It depends on what you find interesting. In real life, it'd be a lot gorier if you had to work on crime scenes, and you'd be spending a LOT more time in the lab and very little time questioning suspects, unless you worked in a very small town where you were both a cop AND CSI. I think it's perfectly fine if that's not as interesting to someone and I certainly wouldn't call it stupid.

Yeah, you're being a little hard on OP. They've made it clear they realize their fantasy isn't real life, no need to rain on their parade.

[dreemyweird]

Well, obviously. It's the implication that RL CSI is necessarily "not as exciting" as on TV that I resent. The OP framed it as an objective statement rather than as a statement of opinion.

Yeah, maybe I shouldn't have judged them quite that harshly. I do get the whole genius superspy power fantasy. It's just that it does tend to rub me the wrong way when people start discussing real-life forensic and law enforcement jobs in this context.

OP

[(Anonymous)]

I'm not sure where I gave the impression that I didn't think this involved real human lives or that I thought I was good enough to do a job like that just because I enjoyed those roles on TV. I know I'm not. I thought I made that clear in the secret.

I know that being a profiler wouldn't necessary look like Manhunter and would involve lots of paperwork.

I know that being an FBI analyst wouldn't involve cool hacking and the ability to dress as fabulously as Penelope Garcia.

I know that working as a CSI would mean a lot of very careful, precise labwork and I might not have awesomely goofy co-workers, nor would I get to out "in the field" and conduct interrogations like I'm some modern day Sherlock Holmes.

I know that being an FBI agent won't involve investigating unexplained phenomenon like aliens or lake monsters.


It wasn't my intention to offend anyone who works in those fields, I was just trying to make a cute secret.

[dethtoll]

It's pretty much police work with nicer clothes and a bigger budget.

[ill_omened]

I mean there's no 'pretty much'.

It's just a larger version of Special Branch, or Special Branch equivalent that pretty much everyone else operates.

[philstar22]

I wanted to be an FBI profiler for a while. It was actually the books written by John Douglas that first made me want to do this. Criminal Minds started during the peak of my profiling obsession. I quickly realized that I do not have the skills necessary for this job, though.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, I think profiling is a really interesting business-it fits into my whole thing of, "Why do people do the things they do?" and trying to understand the mindset of a criminal is important for all sorts of reasons.

But some of the things those people see on the job, some of the criminals they have to talk to...eeesh. I hear about the real life stories and am just like, "Nooooope." I admire people who do that work for a living, though-I think that's one of those sorts of jobs you have to REALLY have a passion for in order to do it for a living, and be able to somehow deal with some of the horrible things you see and hear as a result.

[kallanda_lee]

No, I know exactly what you mean. I never really figured out what to do that would be adventurous and I'd still get paid for in the real world.

[eyeshine72]

But then your family and friends would keep getting threatened on a regular basis...

OP

[(Anonymous)]

Maybe I don't like my family!

Seriously, good point, which is why this is fantasy and not reality. ;)

[analise]

Hah, I had a conversation with a coworker today about how we'd all be a whole lot more badass if our job was actually the way it's portrayed on tv/movies.

[(Anonymous)]

I desperately wanted to be a homicide cop when I was a kid. One of the biggest disappointments of growing up was realising that it would be a much less exciting job irl than on TV, so I went for a different career. Which is also less fun than being a TV cop.

[ninety6tears]

Most of those shows are only somewhat realistic if you assume that literally every moment the characters don't spend on screen they are either filling out paperwork or sleeping on a pile of paperwork.

[dancingmouse]

I know, right? If the FBI was as cool as X-Files, I would've made something of myself years ago. Sadly, aliens don't(?) exist, therefore it's probably just sitting around doing boring paperwork most of the day.

[(Anonymous)]

I love fiction, but I tend to think of it (particularly film) as being comparable to a subtle-acting drug. I don't know if there's actual science to back that up, like increases in certain neurochemicals while one is watching a show they like, or changes in brain function, or anything like that. But I mean, most TV is a depiction of life cherry picked and distilled down to its most interesting aspects. And then the intensity and prevalence of those most interesting aspects is dialed way up.

How can that not be...well, kind of addictive, in a way? Like, how can we not want that for ourselves?

I guess some people are more susceptible to the appeal of the illusion than others. Me? I buy in and I buy in deep. I know it's an illusion, but I still crave it for myself, intensely.

[(Anonymous)]

Right OP. Let me tell you a secret.

I wanted to work for X-Files since I seen it as a kiddo. Then wanted to work for Torchwood.

Registered my info broker company last year (heh, just sent taxes), am crippled, never thought I could be a private investigator which is what such shows made me dream off (and anime, Detective Conan) - but hey, done that and am currently providing info fodder for all personal and company projects. I also track people. So gonna test for PI license to do more and so gonna do a translator's one because economy is shite.

Alas ... secret is ... would really love to work on paranormal stuff my health would not even allow.

The rest as in existence of such agencies? I bet they do exist since I dealt with ghosties, not nice thingies and such for whole life ... as generations of my family. Then again, it is horrid and not exiting. For me it's meh. Mum is like ... ghost phone answering machine and it gets her down, she had quite a sense or anything as a teen but ... deliberately pushed it down since she was afraid :P . Same as her siblings. Next generation is same as me - meh but not wanting to meddle with anything because it can end bed.

Yep. Sekkrit delusional sounding sekkrit is secret.

[(Anonymous)]

LOL, WHAT.

[(Anonymous)]

All respect, but when most people say they believe in ghosts or have had ghostly experiences, it's usually stuff that could be explained. It's just that the people it's happening to are unaware of the scientific reasoning behind stuff so of course it seems weird to them.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm a forensic psychologist and this is really nowhere near as glamorous as it is shown on tv.

"Look at this super complex statistical model of psychopath characteristics .. zzZzZzzzz"