[ SECRET POST #3330 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3330 ⌋

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

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[Uchuu Kyoudai (Space Brothers)]


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[Roald Dahl]


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[X-Files, "Mulder and Scully Meet the Were-Monster"]


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[Agnus Dei/Les Innocentes]


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07.
[Whitechapel, DC Emerson Kent]


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[Undertale]


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(Tales from the Borderlands)


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[Steven Universe]


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 043 secrets from Secret Submission Post #476.
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

[fscom]

10. http://i.imgur.com/J7UOClq.png
[Steven Universe]

[(Anonymous)]

Speaking as someone in their mid 30's with an entire friend circle that watches cartoons. Your friends are pretty crap if they can't handle that.

[(Anonymous)]

I would agree if that was the case, but the whole "hiding kiddy interests from your friends" thing can be more complicated than that. Maybe the OP's friends would be fine with it and OP knows it, but OP still doesn't want anyone to know they like kids' shows.

[diet_poison]

MTE

OP, why do you "have" to hide anything from your friends?

[dani_phantasma]

+1000

If they do judge you it's a problem with them not you.

[(Anonymous)]

Well everyone grows up at different rates I guess. You're lucky your friends are as immature as you. OP may not be so lucky.

[(Anonymous)]

"immature" =/= being so grown up you have to be scared your friends will ditch you if you watch something fun and colourful

[(Anonymous)]

Nah I'm pretty sure it's mostly consuming media aimed at children because you're so emotionally underdeveloped that you can't cope with anything else.

[ketita]

Well, there are still some options. You don't *have* to tell all your friends your into it, even if you do end up joining the fandom. I don't tell all my friends what fandoms I'm in.
You can also watch/enjoy the show without actively getting into the fandom.

[(Anonymous)]

Echoing previous opinions.
Quit being so neurotic about your friends' opinions or get new ones. I can't imagine a bunch of mature grown ups bashing you about your taste in TV programs. And I can't imagine them policing you about it either.

[dani_phantasma]

You'd be surprised.

[nightscale]

You don't have to tell them you watch it, but really you shouldn't feel ashamed for the entertainment you like the consume and cartoons are fun! :)

[(Anonymous)]

I know that feeling. Pretty much all my main fandoms (the ones I'm active in to the level of reading, or occasionally even writing, fanfic) are anime/manga. I know a lot of people, including many of my friends (people in their 20s/30s), who get all sneery about that - even though they're happy to admit they watch stuff like MLP or A:TLA etc themselves. Cartoons are fine, but none of that weeaboo shit!

I'm baffled that all the comments so far are all, "You shouldn't have to hide things from your friends! If they were really your friends they'd understand! If not, you should get better friends!" etc. Like... back in reality, people are not perfect. Sometimes mostly decent people have judgey asshole opinions about some specific, not-very-important things, like tastes in niche media. And I don't feel like putting up with even "good natured" teasing about liking stuff that my friends think is crap.

[(Anonymous)]

But that's... that friendship. Friendship is that you don't want to deliberately hurt them. If they're enjoying hurting you, they're not a friend. That's... that's friendship 101. It's not hard.

You may have topics that are off limits, like I have friends that I do not discuss politics with, and friends I don't discuss computers with, but they still know my political leanings and my operating system choices and we mutually agree to disagree. I would never, ever stay friends with someone that I knew would enjoy hurting me just because I disagreed with them. That's sick.

[iggy]

That double standard is so irritating to me. How are Western cartoons okay but anime isn't? It's ridiculous.

[(Anonymous)]

I feel this because I keep on falling head over heels for cartoons and nobody I know will watch them. I don't know if they're being judgey? Maybe that's a fandom friend thing, my friends don't know wtf A:tla is, I don't know how they could judge me for liking it.

ANYWAY Steven Universe is worth it. It's lovely in a way very few things are.

[(Anonymous)]

You need new friends.

[rivulet027]

Give it a try and see if you like it? I'm sorry you're worried about your friends. Took me awhile to be actively be open about liking Power Rangers and comic books, but then I had pushback from my mom so I kinda understand where you're coming from. Sucks if you're doubting getting into something you think you might enjoy.

[(Anonymous)]

Most of my friends are okay with cartoon-watching in my early 30s, but I also have a lot of very positive, nerdy friends.

My work friends and my friends from elementary school? SUPER weirded out by liking cartoons. Or even liking things like Harry Potter, since it's "weird" and "nerdy."

Literally not getting any of the comments where people say, "GET BETTER FRIENDS, OP," because sometimes you can't always make friends who share your interests.