[ SECRET POST #047 ]

[shahni.livejournal.com]

⌈ Secret Post #047 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe.

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Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 023 secrets from Secret Submission Post #007.
Secrets Not Posted: 0 broken links, 0 not!secrets, 0 not!fandom.
Next Secret Post: Tomorrow, Thursday February 22, 2007.
Current Secret Submission Post: Here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[queenie-z.livejournal.com]

Why do so many people think that living in a fantasy world would be better than real life? Would you really want to live in a world that's constantly on the verge of the apocalypse?

Real life isn't that bad, people. And don't give me your wangsty emo crap that "nobody in this world understaaaaaaaaands me :(((((((" because, like it or not, someone else is going through what you are, and there are people who want to help.

*Steps off of soapbox*

[(Anonymous)]

Would you really want to live in a world that's constantly on the verge of the apocalypse?

YES. Fuck fairies and elves and dwarves. Give me a world at constant war, threatened by monsters, where you wake up every day to fight and each one might be your last. I personally would love it.

It has nothing to do with understanding at all.

[queenie-z.livejournal.com]

Have you ever actually been in combat? I'm not saying I have but I have enough sense to know that it's not something that needs to be glorified, if the mentally traumatized veterans of Vietname and WWII are any indication.

I bet that, if you were really in said situation, you'd be begging to go back home to your nice, comfortable, relatively safe life. And if you have ever been in combat or served in an army, disregard everything I said and accept my sincere apologies.

[(Anonymous)]

Fighting against humans should not compare at all to fighting against "monsters." The mentally traumatized veterans of Vietnam and WWII who were drafted into fighting a war they didn't want to fight on a massive scale is completely different from (as a more comparable example) wanting to live in a remote tribe and hunt animals with spears for food.

There's no question of glory. I don't dislike my life. It's quite nice. That doesn't mean there aren't other lives I'd prefer.

[queenie-z.livejournal.com]

Maybe I'm just a softie, but I don't particularly get why anyone would enjoy fighting all the time.

Oh well. As much as I, personally, think your opinion is naive, rash, and comepletely mind-boggling, I will respect your right to have it. Just don't try going off to live with the gorillas or something equally dumb.

[(Anonymous)]

It isn't respect if you insult it first.

My attempt to explain was pointless I see.

No use in arguing further.

[queenie-z.livejournal.com]

I can respect the person without respecting their opinion. For all I know you're a pretty swell person; I just think that wanting to live in a world of constant combat against things that can kill you is foolish. It's the same as if you told me you hated my favorite pairing, or even outright insulted it - sure, it'd sting a little, but honestly, we all have a right to state our stance on the issue. Get over it.

[kinneas.livejournal.com]

I don't know, the monster comment is accurate, and as someone that HAS been training in combat since childhood and so ultimately bored with life as it is right now (so much so that I am joining the NYPD to help alleviate it), the fantasy world does not seem like a particularly bad thing.

[grayout.livejournal.com]

Emo kids would totally not survive in a fantasy world, are you kidding me? They'd be all LOOK I CUT MYSELF and someone would be all *POTION* no more tears! and they'd be like, well shit. D:

I'd so go around doing that just to piss them off.

[degrees.livejournal.com]

*dies* Too bad you can't do that in real life!

[grayout.livejournal.com]

Berserk = instant anti-emo!

[grayout.livejournal.com]

Oh god and then you'd get those people who like constantly try to kill themselves but then someone walks along and is all *PHOENIX DOWN* and they're all NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!

[grayout.livejournal.com]

OH GOD IF PEOPLE HAD SEX AND USED POTIONS AS LUBE COULD HEALING BUTTSECKS BE A REALITY

[queenie-z.livejournal.com]

IT'D CURE THE ROIDS THAT'S FOR SURE.

[degrees.livejournal.com]

THAT IS THE MOST DISTURBINGLY BEAUTIFUL IDEA ANYONE HAS EVER HAD

[grayout.livejournal.com]

Bishounen 1: HELP I JUST GOT RAPED
Bishounen 2: Don't worry! I've got the cure for that! *pops a potion*
*cue porn music*

[queenie-z.livejournal.com]

LOL

Someone needs to make a parody!fic where an OOC!cutter!weepy!bishounen starts cutting himself and someone does that. XD;;;

[grayout.livejournal.com]

I'd also totally just go around with Phoenix Downs in graveyards and wake all the people up just for kicks. Because I'm a bastard.

[queenie-z.livejournal.com]

But then you'd upset the balance of nature! The population would increase and wars would break out over the limited supplies, causing mass chaos and destruction!!

Plus, it'd make Charles Darwin cry.

[grayout.livejournal.com]

Well, they'd be stuck in their coffins still, so uh, that might be a problem.

BUT THE POINT IS, I -COULD- MAKE CHARLES DARWIN CRY. BY PHOENIX DOWNING HIM. BWAHAHA.

[degrees.livejournal.com]

*dies* :D (http://community.livejournal.com/metaquotes/5874095.html)

[lostremnant.livejournal.com]

Do you know all the people in the world? Do you know what their life is like? Then spare me the "real life isn't that bad" B.S. You don't know what people have gone through in their life.

Tell a woman who was raped by her stepfather since she was five years old until she finally ran away at sixteen that "real life isn't that bad" and see how she responds.

Tell someone who has cystic fibrosis and is in and out of hospitals and knows that he'll die young that "real life isn't that bad" and see how he responds.

I know I'm being rude but I am so sick of people pushing the crap that real life is soooo wonderful because hey it isn't so wonderful for some people and if they wistfully express the wish to live in some fantasy then LET THEM.

Because they're living their lives and you aren't living their lives for them so cut them some slack mkay?

Now I'll step off MY soapbox.

[(Anonymous)]

iawtc

[(Anonymous)]

I think you over-reacted. I actually agree with you, but I think you misinterpreted her post a bit... she's kind of not talking about victims of cystic fibrosis.

[lostremnant.livejournal.com]

You're right. I did over-react. And I apologize for being so harsh. What I should have said is that when people wistfully say that they wish their lives were like a video game what they really mean is that they wish they had the control over their real lives that they do in a video game. Sometimes people feel that real life is completely out of their control.

Again I apologize.