fandomsecrets | [ SECRET POST #3537 ]

⌈ Secret Post #3537 ⌋

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

01.

__________________________________________________

02.

[Art by: http://slashpalooza.tumblr.com/post/149564769513/thank-you-for-all-the-comments-havent-had-time]

__________________________________________________

03.

[Twin Peaks]

__________________________________________________

04.

__________________________________________________

05.

[Stephen King, BTK murderer and The Good Marriage]

__________________________________________________

06. [WARNING for pedophilia, incest]

(Rick and Morty)

__________________________________________________

07. [WARNING for rl death]

Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 00 pages, 00 secrets from Secret Submission Post #505.
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.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Some things I've figured...

- Less than 100 years, but I think within the next generation or two, we'll see a shift from helicopter parenting to parenting in the 50's. People will feel that they were negatively affected by how much they were structured.

- I think our descendants will find a way to replace meat with other substances (more successfully and tastefully than now), and eating "real" meat will be on par with wearing real fur - not forbidden, but definitely side-eyed by a lot of people. They'll understand why we ate meat, but also boast that there are "greener" alternatives.

(I'm not a vegetarian, FWIW. But I might have a great grandkid who wishes I had been!)

- Sex and gender will be less strictly defined, and we may even evolve in that sense as well.

My parents were pretty free range, "sort your own shit out" types, and while that kind of detachment has had negative consequences in other ways, I'm definitely noticing how much tougher it's made me than my more coddled peers in some respects. And it's only getting more pronounced as we age, not less. Sure, they've got great relationships with their parents, but they're all extremely dissatisfied with the lives/jobs they have and what they've accomplished as we head into our collective mid-30s.

Whereas my parents made it clear that things I did wrong were my fault, not theirs, that I could absolutely lose their respect and even their love through my actions, and that I was only as special as I made myself through hard work and talent. (Also that I would always be inferior to my brothers because they had dicks because the sky wizard loves dicks more than boxes but that's a whoooole 'nother conversation. But that just made my beating my brothers at shit fucking beautiful because I'm a spiteful bitch.)

As such idk it's tough not to want to impart some of that to any future kids I'd have. Not the dicks part, just the "sort your own shit out/you're only as special as your accomplishments" part. I wonder if some of my peers who are bemoaning fucking the dog their entire teenaged/young adult years will also take note.

that I could absolutely lose...their love through my actions

That's fucked up.

And honestly, a lot of the people I know who are close to their parents are also very successful. (I'm sort of including myself in this; I'm pretty happy with where I am now, except for being seemingly perpetually single, but I digress) I don't think you have to take a tough-as-nails approach to parenting to help your kids be independent and successful.

Yeah, I know it's fucked up. I definitely wouldn't do everything they did.

I and most of my peers came from very poor families in a shitty part of town and required a little something extra to not fall victim to the same cycles of poverty our parents did, and... most did not.

Ah...that sounds rough. Sounds like they did what they could and really wanted you guys to break out of that cycle.

I definitely agree about the meat thing. It's not sustainable, for one, and probably we'll have the technology to create non-animal-based proteins.

Something I recall from the YA Dystopian novel "Uglies" was the character being disgusted that some of the outside people made a table out of "dead trees". I wonder if that'll be the future, too, that we won't use anything organic in our building/clothing/etc.

"Sex and gender will be less strictly defined, and we may even evolve in that sense as well."

Dear god I hope not. Gender should be abolished, not redefined.

[ SECRET POST #3537 ]

Re: 3016 AD

Re: 3016 AD

Re: 3016 AD

Re: 3016 AD

Re: 3016 AD

Re: 3016 AD

Re: 3016 AD