[ SECRET POST #3542 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3542 ⌋

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Comments

[thelesbianfuturist]

I don't judge you for your opinions, but if you have children and those opinions lead you to not vaccinate your kids, you'd be a child murdered.

Re: Most Comforting Fiction

[philstar22]

Escapism for me. Fantasy mostly and also scifi, particularly if it has fantasy tones. If I'm feeling miserable, I want to escape to another world for a little while.

For fanfic, hurt/comfort with emphasis on lots of comfort.

Re: Most Comforting Fiction

[(Anonymous)]

When I feel down, I reread Shirley Jackson's "Louisa, Please Come Home," about a young woman who walks away from her life and relocates under a new identity. There's something that obscurely cheers me up about Louisa's long, gleeful description of hiding in plain sight and moving through a crowd where "nobody really saw me." And I've always liked her consoling phrase: Nothing is hard to do unless you get excited or upset about it.

Other favorites: Lucy Maud Montgomery's Jane of Lantern Hill and The Blue Castle. Both are about female characters with overbearing, intrusive or controlling parent-figures who basically dictate their children's identities. Both Jane and Valancy (from The Blue Castle) are awkward, timid and cowed--until they manage to get away and find autonomy and fulfillment for themselves. Also, in each case a house is involved--and I love a story about a house.

[(Anonymous)]

Some books are unfilmable since film is a visual medium and books are not. For instance, The Giver is unfilmable since the major reveal that tips us off that all is not as wonderful as Jonas perceives it (the inability to see color) is neatly tucked away quite a ways into the novel. Any attempt to put Sameness on screen would ruin the dawning horror the reader feels as the full extent of the dystopia becomes clear.

And yes, I know they made The Giver into the movie. I saw it. I stand by my position- the book is unfilmable.

Re: Most Comforting Fiction

[kallanda_lee]

*Fistbump*

[dethtoll]

I think that's kind of a naive way of thinking it, because in my experience when someone wishes someone dead, they mean like right the fuck now. "Drop dead," etc.

[philstar22]

The idea that there is nothing morally wrong with not helping another person if there is no risk of hurting you and they'll be hurt or even die if you don't? That's pretty offensive to me. Also, "enlightened selfishness" isn't a thing. It is just selfishness. And it doesn't work economically. When companies aren't regulated, they do whatever they can to get the most profit for themselves and screw over everyone else in the process. Objectivism, IMHO, is bad both in theory and in practice.

Re: Nails, anyone?

[nightscale]

I have my nails painted most of the time, I had a break of about a month without polish recently but that was due to me breaking a nail on each hand and I can't have painted nails that aren't the same length, it just doesn't look right. So I waited for them to grow out and now they're blue.

But I've never been to a salon to get them done and I don't think I'd ever bother tbh. I have no interest in getting acrylic or gel nails done and I'd rather put on the polish myself at home and make a bit of a mess than pay someone way too much to do it for me.

I like bright colours a lot but I'm also very prone to defaulting to black because it goes with everything, and I like having dark nails.

[(Anonymous)]

Outside of Queer as Folk (which I personally thought was awful) what other ones are there?

[feotakahari]

I can't find it now, but I once read an essay called "We're Not the Dragons You're Looking For." The author was asexual, and she talked about the first book she'd ever read with an asexual main character. She was so happy to be represented, right up until the main character turned out to be a dragon and flew off to live with the other dragons. She felt like she was being called inhuman, like a person who was asexual couldn't still be a person.

[(Anonymous)]

IME if they mean drop dead in the sense that they'd kill them with their mind if they had the ability, they're more specific about the immediacy of it. Drop dead is also a phrase I hardly ever hear used to literally mean death, more like "fuck off outta here." But you may be right, I tend to give people the benefit of the doubt.

[(Anonymous)]

I have family members who are disabled because vaccines weren't readily available for them. I work with severely autistic kids and I just had a mom ask me, in tears, if her daughter would be "notmal" if she hadn't vaccinated her. Even so, I don't wish death on anybody, not even Jenny McCarthy. It just doesn't feel right.

Re: Nails, anyone?

[(Anonymous)]

Not much point--I keep my nails really short (like pared down almost to the quicks), because I play the piano and can't stand to hear fingernails clicking on the keys.

[(Anonymous)]

Stay classy.

[philstar22]

If you don't want to vaccinate your kids, but you keep them home and don't get them in contact with anyone else, then I'm fine. Well, not really because your kid shouldn't have their health risked for your stupidity. But legally, I wouldn't prosecute then. But not vaccinating your kid can kill other people. So no, you don't get to risk other people's lives just because you are an idiot.

Re: Weird Things You Enjoy in Media

[nightscale]

Characters actually speaking the language they supposed to be using rather than speaking in accented English, it's a small thing that pleases me.

[(Anonymous)]

Oh yeah, feel free to use other people's threads. Nice level playing field there. It would be better to unfreeze my own. Either that or freeze everything under Philstar's reply.

What film reboot had a better main actor than it's original actor?

[(Anonymous)]

[mishey22]

Vaccines are given multiple times because it's in small doses for...

You know what? This isn't even worth it because...just. Ugh

Shoe help

[caerbannog]

My work shoes smell? And they're making my socks and feet smell. They're nice shoes otherwise, how to fix?

Leather shoes.

[(Anonymous)]

They'll be welcome at fewer and fewer of them though. And that is good.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't think there really is a moderate version of objectivism? It's a pretty extreme ideology.

Also, I think its account of moral clarity and ethics and capitalism and the individuals' relationship to society and all that stuff is just wrong. At the end of the day, when you're implacably opposed to the idea of community or communalism or society, that's not an ideology that I think is either correct or productive.

[(Anonymous)]

Nah, they'll either develop common sense in spite of being homeschooled or retreat into their own little communes.

[(Anonymous)]

Well I'm sure you'll all be happy when the laws go that way and peopel are literally prosecuted for not vaccinating.

Yes, very. Giving parents an out on what should be criminal negligence (barring actual allergies that prevent administering a vaccine) because ~oh, their feelings~ is asinine.

Re: Nails, anyone?

[(Anonymous)]

I love doing my nails and love nail wraps, polish strips, and regular polish. I tend to go for greens and blues, blacks, animal prints, and florals. I used to do acrylics but haven't had them in years, now I prefer my natural nails as they're nowhere near as high maintenance as acrylics were.