[ SECRET POST #3438 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3438 ⌋

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

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Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Official advertise your fandom-related event thread.

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4. What is NOT allowed: anything for profit, any kind of fic/art commissions, seeking 1-on-1 RP, that kind of thing.

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Official clickables thread.

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General comments:

(If the thread contains spoilery/triggery content please post as 2nd comment so it collapses!)

Inspired by #5

[(Anonymous)]

What are your feelings about media trying new things? Are you happy watching the same story retold over and over (i.e. Star Wars TFA) or do you need something to be different?

Your Favorite Aliens

[(Anonymous)]

What's your favorite fictional alien species in media? Which book/movie/video game/etc. handled aliens the best?

Inspired By #9

[(Anonymous)]

If you think F!S is no fun anymore, quit your bitching and leave. Nobody's going to miss you. Really. Promise.

Mental health and happiness

[(Anonymous)]

Does anyone else feel like being mentally ill, depressed, or even just generally angry or unhappy at times makes people see you as not worth listening to and deserving of all kinds of scorn and fake pity?

I've been feeling that way a bit lately, and I think some of it is the fact that the current way to insult someone or dismiss their opinion is to bring up their mental health or level of happiness. Like if someone expresses a negative opinion on anything, no matter how small, the response from people who disagree is always "I'm sorry you feel that way, it must suck to be so miserable all the time" or "isn't it exhausting to be so angry/offended all the time." Patronizing unneeded fake pity. Of course the idea that having a negative opinion once in a while is "exhausting" or makes a person miserable is ridiculous, but it does make me feel like if I'm not always happy, my opinion is worthless. Because you can argue against someone's opinion by claiming that they aren't happy, so unhappiness must make the opinion invalid.

It also makes it seem like a person is either CONSTANTLY HAPPY or CONSTANTLY MISERABLE, because if you express unhappiness about anything, someone claims you're "constantly" offended/angry/unhappy. Like, what happened to experiencing a normal range of emotions??? Now you must be happy all the time, even one slip-up where you express even mild dislike of something and you have fallen into a rabbit hole of CONSTANT MISERY. But I guess the way they see it, if you weren't consumed with despair, you'd have just kept your mouth shut. You don't talk about negative things unless you're so upset that you lose all control and... express an opinion.

And then there's the "sad" thing, like, even eating the wrong thing means I should "just go sit somewhere and be sad" or something along those lines. I'm not "sad" because I like some types of salad, or whatever!

I know I should ignore it, but it's everywhere and it's starting to bug me (not "drive me into a bottomless hole of despair and abject misery," though I'm sure some people would insist that mere annoyance isn't enough to drive someone to write about their thoughts).

Inspired by an article I just read

[(Anonymous)]

Have any of you ever confronted your former bullies? Did they explain why they were mean, just say they couldn't remember or laugh in your face?

Do you think there's any point in confronting former bullies?

CW: pet death

[ginainthekingsroad]

for collapsability, both of comment and picture.

Batman Vs Superman Ultimate Edition

[(Anonymous)]

Do you think the extra 30 minutes can make that shitfest into a movie that you can sit through more than once?

Share your OCs!

[(Anonymous)]

I know a lot of people have those OCs they like the story of but haven't written about. Tell us about them! What's your OC like? What purpose do they serve in your story? What makes you enjoy writing them?

What do you want right now?

[(Anonymous)]

I want a warm ocean to swim in. It's hot here but I live in Northern CA and the ocean is too cold to swim in without a wetsuit.

What are some fun things you've seen

[(Anonymous)]

Watched, or learned about recently?

X-Men

[philstar22]

I want to talk about this movie. I just got back from it. I was expecting it to be really bad, based on the reviews, but I found I really enjoyed it.

Vent thread

[(Anonymous)]

I have a minor vent so lets open this pit up

Cuck vs Fuckboy

[(Anonymous)]

Which is the more irritating tiresome just can't insult?

Politics thread

[(Anonymous)]

Sorry everyone

Family drama - how do I get past this?

[(Anonymous)]

So, my brother and I haven't gotten along in a really long time. We're just very, very different, and while that doesn't matter to me, he's the type of person who thinks that if you're not just like him, there's something wrong with you. There's an incident from when we were teenagers that I still remember and am bothered by. One day he told me that he needed to talk to me, and I had no idea what to expect so I agreed. He proceeded to rant at me about how I was a loser and I needed to make an effort to be more normal because it reflected badly on him. (I was, and still am, an introvert who'd rather stay home and read than go out partying or to bars.) The conversation ended in tears on my part, and it obviously affected me if I'm still bothered by it like...10-12 years later.

He was constantly doing things like that, and pretty much all my parents would ever do is tell him to knock it off. There were never any consequences for him treating me the way he did.

Up until 6 months ago, the only time I'd see him was at holidays and family events, and I tried to stay away from him as much as possible at those events (I'd spend my time talking to other family members or friends or whatever) but when I happened to talk to him he was always an ass. There was still no consequences for his actions, though, and my parents would cater to him (like, for example, if we were going out to dinner, they'd ask HIM what time he wanted to meet, and that's what time it would be, even when that time was inconvenient for me...one year we completely changed our Christmas traditions because he decided on a whim that he wanted to do something different, etc).

Six months ago, there was some drama involving him and his girlfriend treating my mom like crap, then his girlfriend made up a bunch of lies that he believed, and he decided to basically quit speaking to the rest of the family (it's a long story, so I won't go into details). My dad had some health scares and was in the hospital for awhile, so my brother was worried about him and decided that he'd talk to us while that was going on, but other than that he hasn't spoken to us since.

Now, when all that first went down, my mom was super pissed since it was directed at her, and he admittedly said and did some awful things to her. It bothered me, though, because when he was treating me like shit for years no one ever took it seriously, but now that he was being a dick to her it was all "well I'm not putting up with his shit anymore, and he's not getting away with it, blah blah blah". I told her that I felt hurt that she never seemed to care when he was so horrible to me for so long. She apologized and said she was wrong and never should've let him get away with everything he did.

So okay, there's not much I can do at this point, it's in the past and she apologized, I need to just get past it. Okay.

The thing is...I go over to my parents' house, and there are still pictures of my brother. There's a childhood drawing of his on the refrigerator (along with mine) that's been there for years. She said that she's a mother and he's still her child regardless of how he's acted and she's not going to just erase his existence from her house.

But from my point of view, seeing that stuff just reminds me of how he's treated me, and the fact that for all those years, my feelings obviously weren't important enough to her for her to do anything about it.

She told me years ago that she wasn't going to choose between us, but I feel like that's what she's done. She's not even speaking to him at the moment, but she'd still rather keep stuff that hurts me around...it seems pretty damn obvious that she did choose, and she chose him.

How do I get past this? I don't want to cut my parents out of my life, but I've already told my mom how this makes me feel and it doesn't seem to make a difference.

What do I do?

Random thing that happened today

[(Anonymous)]

I can't tell this story to anyone IRL because they either won't find the humor in it or I don't want to tell people I know how I masturbate.

So I work graveyard shift and came home from work this morning and before bed I wanted to masturbate. To get in the mood, I went to Disney Kink Meme and found a promising Aladdin fic. I don't know how far I got into the fic, but I remember waking up with my phone still in my hand and I was drooling. I momentarily hoped that I didn't drool on my phone, set it down on my nightstand, put away my vibrator and got to bed. I woke up and realized how fucking nerdy it was and none of my friends are nerdy enough to understand the story if I told them.

Share random events or thoughts you had today if you wish.

Fic Recs: Frottage?

[(Anonymous)]

I didn't get home until super-late last night, so I thought I'd ask today. What are your favorite frottage fics, fs?

Cleverman

[caerbannog]

Did you watch the premier, cleverman!anon? I was really impressed with the amount of cultural tidbits and references they managed to drop in for the time they had.

Like, I was still expecting something pretty token like so when they dropped some mediation in, some men's business and a few other bits I really sat up and paid attention!

Very exciting. A whole week to next episode!

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Games thread!

Book club - July recs!

[diet_poison]

TITLE AND AUTHOR! You must post both!!!!

Please rec things <3

Recs open until Monday!

Re: Book club - July recs!

[blitzwing]

Since it occurs to me that manga might not count as "books" to other people I'll change that rec to Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta.

Re: Book club - July recs!

[(Anonymous)]

Un Lun Dun by China Mieville

Is clever, and cool, and the imagery is amazing (some neat pen and ink illustrations too). It's technically YA so it's not a hard read, but Mieville is a really unique and stylish writer so you never feel condescend to.