[ 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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03.
[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:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 015 secrets from Secret Submission Post #474.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[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.

[(Anonymous)]

I think the "not as fascinating as they look [to me]" is heavily implied, given the context. A lot of people (myself included) think forensic work looks fascinating, but it's arguably not quite as thrilling as tracking down a whole town of vampires or discovering a fallen alien spaceship. That's not a slam against forensic work at all, just an acknowledgement that everything on TV looks more exciting than it does in real life.

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.

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

dreemyweird is just being an oversensitive know it all. Don't feel bad about your secret.

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

+1 holy crap that was an over-defensive bitchy response to your reasonable secret, OP.

and i totally agree with you, btw - i still want to be scully...

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

OP again.

I don't think dreemyweird was being a know it all per se, but I seem to have touched a nerve and I didn't mean to. That's all I wanted to clear up.

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

+3 That was an inexplicably defensive reaction to your secret, no doubt about it.

And for the record, while I'm sure it's not accurate to say that NOBODY finds being a CSI/Lawyer/Doctor/Whatever as exciting and interesting as it is on TV, I'd be willing to be that the VAAAAAST majority of people don't find real life as interesting as TV. Truthfully, IMO, very few things are as interesting in real life. I mean, the script for a TV show is written specifically to be interesting to us, the characters are designed to be interesting to us, the thing is filmed in a way that's meant to make the whole thing more interesting. Fiction is crafted specifically to be interesting. Given that, I think it's completely reasonable to make the generalization that work, in real life, is not as interesting as work in fiction.

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

What other anon said. Your secret was perfectly clear. And also relatable; I have told people many times that my ideal job is "I want to be someone's Garcia."