[ SECRET POST #3526 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3526 ⌋

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

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02.
[Feed The Birds, from Mary Poppins]


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03.
(Once Upon A Time)


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04.
[ Dota 2 esport ]


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05.
[Great British Bake Off, series 3]


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06. http://i.imgur.com/82bEEum.png
[The Private Report on My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness; linked for nudity/implied porn, illustrated]


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07.
[We Happy Few]


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08.
[Stranger Things]














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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I really can't speak for everyone. But personally, the reason that I liked Barb as a character was because she was do relatable, because I'd been in those shoes myself. And that's the sense I sort of got from other people. I think your reading of the character is right on, but I also thought that's why she was popular.

I do think it's interesting the assumptions we make about ourselves and others vis a vis our Nanciness or Barbness. It feels like this invisible, unexpected dividing line. It's strange.

[(Anonymous)]

Thiiiisssss.

The weird thing is, I always thought I was the Barb. I was convinced of it for years.

Then I ran into some friends from high school that I hadn't seen in *mumble mumble* years and we all got to reminiscing, but the weird thing is they were talking like I was the Nancy, which, had me mentally going "Wait, WHAT?" Because I was the one who never dated in high school, but from their perception I was some kind of fun pied piper who was too *cool* to bother with the drama or care about what other people thought about me.

Which, again, WHAT?

The line between how we perceive who we think we are, and who other people think we are can be really mind-boggling sometimes.

[sabotabby]

I had something similar. It's hard to wrap one's head around.

[(Anonymous)]

Same here! I actually never dated in high school until the last two weeks! (I went to prom with a boy "friend," and pined over HIS best friend. Typical Barb.)

And then I dated a cute football player, what? Why didn't that happen two years before that? Not that I wanted to hang out with a more popular crowd, but I thought something was actually wrong with me. (Was I actively repellent?) So finally dating someone did wonders for my self confidence.

At our ten year reunion I found that everybody apparently knew/remembered me, and I don't know why, because I really didn't hang out with the popular student council kids or the like.

[(Anonymous)]

This happened to me too. I assumed I was the Barb, and later learned that my classmates perceived me as cool, funny, intelligent and aloof o_0