[ SECRET POST #3786 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3786 ⌋

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

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I love Sparky. I'm glad to see that he's back!

[(Anonymous)]

I would never try to discourage someone from getting a bird but I have to tell people to do their research. Gotcha's channel does a lot of that.

Why is it that people don't leave these missives about other domestic animals though?

Re: What's the worst book you've ever read?

[(Anonymous)]

I have a burning fiery loathing for Thirteen Reasons Why.

Re: Things you love that have horrible fandoms

[(Anonymous)]

MCU and Marvel in general.

[(Anonymous)]

I've seen Gotcha's channel do that, yeah.

And since you asked, I'm actually against domestication entirely. I don't think any animal should be forced to survive at the whims of humans due to genetic manipulation or displacement making them unable to be released into the wild. Sure there are lots of good humans, but there's a lot of bad or negligent ones too. They're forced to stay with us whether they want to or not, often in a greatly restrictive setting compared to their wild counterparts. I'm all for adoption, but I cannot stand breeders for perpetuating animal exploitation.

People are hypocrites which is why you don't see other people talking about it.

[(Anonymous)]

DA

Man, someone hit a nerve

[(Anonymous)]

I love watching Eric The Legend (but he's corella not an African Grey Parrot)

[alexi_lupin]

I did like Geoff better than the sidekicks on other shows that just laughed at what the host said.

Re: What is your favorite fandom wank?

[(Anonymous)]

When that guy bought that LOTR fan fiction archive and the LOTR fandom hounded him into oblivion.


If IRC he thought fandom was an easy target to monetarise. He was a prick and I thoroughly enjoyed seeing him get his are handed to him.

Of course what was less funny was that the archive and community was ultimately lost. :(

Re: trigger: mention of rape

[(Anonymous)]

I feel the exact same way.

Re: Inspired by #3

[(Anonymous)]

DA

I spent a long time defending Sherlock and claiming the fandom wasn't half as bad as people made it out to be.

I still don't understand what people think is so awful about the Sherlock fandom, and I've been in it for five years. I mean, yes, the whole TJLC thing was weird and annoying, but it's pretty much the only thing I can think of that was popular/widespread enough to color my view of the fandom in general. Pretty much every other bit of wank was just a few fans being asshats.

Then again, I have zero personal interest in the SPN fandom, but I still wish it all the best and don't understand why people talk shit about it as much as they do. *shrugs*

I guess I'm just not bothered by a lot of the stuff other people are bothered by when it comes to fandom wank.

Re: Inspired by #3

[(Anonymous)]

if they only ship het I kind of side-eye them.

If they're the sort of only-ships-het person who announces publicly that they only ship het, as though they really want people to know that about them, and never gives any sort of reason for it, then I understand side-eyeing them. But if you notice without any prompting from them that all their ships happen to be het, then I think side-eyeing them makes no sense. Shipping is like attraction; you don't choose it, it chooses you.

Re: Reread Fic

[(Anonymous)]

The thing I reread most often is really hot PWPs. I will also occasionally reread short fics if they were extremely good.

For everything else, though, years have to go by before I'll even consider rereading. I've been in my current main fandom for more than five years now, and I've just started rereading some of the fics I read and loved when I first got into the fandom. And to be honest, the main reason I'm rereading old fics is because I've read so much fanfic in this fandom that I'm having a hard time finding good stuff I haven't read. :/

Re: What's the worst book you've ever read?

[(Anonymous)]

I actually loved Atlas Shrugged (even though I don't agree with Rand's politics at all), but even I skipped that fucking speech. That thing is you-have-to-see-it-to-believe-it long, and also just a reiteration of ideas she's already covered at least a dozen times throughout the book.

It's extremely rare that I let myself skip (or even skim) anything I'm reading, but when I realized that John Galt was not going to say anything new, and that he was going to say seventy pages of not new stuff, it was like, lol, seriously? Let's just not.

Re: What's the worst book you've ever read?

[(Anonymous)]

I really disliked Moby Dick. It was agonizingly dry, even for nineteenth century classic lit, and there wasn't nearly enough plot to be stretched over all those pages. It felt like the bare bones of a tolerably interesting short story, buried in several hundred interminable pages of bland, lumpy padding, and mashed inelegantly together with a nineteenth century technical manual on whaling.

I recently quit reading if on a winter's night a traveler two thirds of the way through. It was basically a bunch of annoying, pretentious gimmicks all mashed together, and it wasn't getting better. If ever there has been a novel to make me say "Is there anything here that isn't a literary gimmick?" it would be this one.

Re: What is your favorite fandom wank?

[otakugal15]

Snapesnogger

[(Anonymous)]

...I really need to see this.

Re: Things you tell yourself to feel better

[(Anonymous)]

That the battle was lost, does not make it without worth to fight.

Re: Book club - quick announcements

[diet_poison]

...Sunday, June 4!

Thanks nonny ;-;

[tree_and_leaf]

I've been complaining about the balance in Doctor Who for ages - and you're right, Sherlock is also not great. Even Happy Valley, which is serious drama, had its moments (and I lived in that part of the world, the problem wasn't the dialect). It does seem to be a BBC issue, and I wish they'd sort it out.

Re: What is your favorite fandom wank?

[philstar22]

I missed out on that one. What happened.

[tree_and_leaf]

It seems to be a current fashion at the BBC. It's really annoying. I don't know why - possibly they're trying to make it sound more naturalistic - but I wish they'd stop. They used to be able to get it right!

[litalex]

Yay, a Craig Ferguson show fan!

I'm actually sorta okay with Geoff.

Re: Things you tell yourself to feel better

[greghousesgf]

I feel that way sometimes myself and I don't think it is stupid.

Re: Inspired by #3

[(Anonymous)]

I suppose side-eye less as in "I think you're an immoral people" and more as in "you are probably not the kind of person who will make a good friend for me." I mean like the very first post above, people can't help what they're attracted to and it's all good as long as everyone has a firm understanding that fiction =/= reality, but if you're going to be friends you're probably going to have to agree to disagree on the topic of what's awesome in fiction and avoid the topic. And man is it exhausting to avoid shipping-talk entirely in fandom.