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⌈ Secret Post #3952 ⌋

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Really early, sorry!

Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 51 secrets from Secret Submission Post #566.
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[fscom]

Official advertise your fandom-related event thread.

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4. What is NOT allowed: anything for profit, any kind of fic/art commissions, seeking 1-on-1 RP, that kind of thing.

Review/Analysis of Columbo's "Swan Song"

[(Anonymous)]

Columbo investigates a plane crash, with his prime suspect being a country/gospel singer. It might not seem like these two things are related, but I promise it makes sense in context.

https://tv-366.blogspot.com/2017/10/day-224-columbo-swan-song.html

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Official clickables thread.

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Good Morning, Everyone

[(Anonymous)]

Well, this is unusual.

How are all your mornings / evenings / late nights going? Delete as appropriate for timezone.

Re: Good Morning, Everyone

[(Anonymous)]

It's afternoon for me, but I just woke up two hours ago so it feels like morning. It's going okay.

Re: Good Morning, Everyone

[(Anonymous)]

I'm still lying in bed. I haven't even had coffee yet. My posts are going to be really bad.

Re: Good Morning, Everyone

[morieris]

It's like 45 degrees and I went to the beach. The water was warm in spots, but I hurried up and dried off.

Also got sand in my eye x_<

Re: Good Morning, Everyone

[fishnchips]

I think it's nice to actually be able to see the new post going up without staying up until after midnight (which I do anyway but still). Evening here and it's super stormy outside - I love stormy weather but I hope no tree branches fall on my car.

Re: Good Morning, Everyone

[(Anonymous)]

Yah, secrets are posted real early today.

Re: Good Morning, Everyone

[(Anonymous)]

It's 4am. Why.

The internet is too slow to stream video. :(

Come join our discussion of It Follows!

[kaijinscendre]

Today we are still discussing It Follows!

Come join us here.

fic

[(Anonymous)]

What ships have you read the most fic for in the last 3 months, and why

also what fandom have you read the most gen fic for

Movies that don't hold up?

[(Anonymous)]

What movie has you rewatched recently that did NOT hold up?

What monthly subscriptions are worth it to you?

[(Anonymous)]

How do you feel about costume bans?

[(Anonymous)]

What costume styles do you think are unacceptable?

What should be do more for self care?

[(Anonymous)]

^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Rec/Rec-Requests Thread

[(Anonymous)]

Rec something, ask for recs, you know the drill.

I learned a new word today...

[thewakokid]

But I cant seem to find any guidance on how it's supposed to be used. Hell, even Urban Dictionary has let me down. Help a brotha out?

Boysuck. As in "You're a fucking boysuck"

From context it could be anything from slutshaming, to calling someone a gender traitor, to implying that they lower themselves by having oral sex with men to... hell, just a new catch all insult, like fuckhead. Anyone got any clues?

Mom update

[cakemage]

Mom’s going to be fine, thank goodness! She had to spend the night in the ICU because her coumadin levels were sky high, but they managed to get them back down and stop the bleeding. She’s in a regular room for tonight just for observation, and she’s coming home tomorrow. Words cannot express how relieved I am.

Also, I want to thank everyone for their kindness yesterday. It really meant a lot to me. I know I've said this before, but I've always liked how, despite how wanky and sometimes vicious this comm's in-fighting can be, there is never a shortage of compassion when it comes to the things that really matter. So thank you.

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Games thread!

Book club - October discussion - The Haunting of Hill House

[diet_poison]

Hey all, I overslept and looks like secrets went up early! I'm going to get a bit of breakfast and open my laptop and write out some of my thoughts in a couple minutes. In the mean time feel free to share yours!

Re: Book club - October discussion - The Haunting of Hill House

[diet_poison]

So, my thoughts...

My thoughts are not numerous. I'm not quite sure what I expected from this book, but it didn't do anything particularly exciting or outlandish. I did expect it to be a harder or more tedious read than it was; it wasn't really difficult to get through. I enjoyed it more at the beginning, when I was anticipating what might happen, but the actual "scary" parts were a bit of a letdown.

I think maybe that has more to do with me than the book - I'm not good at visualizing things and I'm definitely not good at abstract thinking, so psychological horror in a fictional setting that's described rather vaguely is just kind of "...huh? ok" to me. In general I guess I don't really get the appeal of horror books largely for that reason - they're often just kind of boring. The book wasn't badly written at all, and I rather liked the author's style, but there was no plot to speak of outside of the first few chapters and the last few pages. I guess we were supposed to follow Eleanor's crazed descent into the clutches of the house, but so much of what happened to her was left open to interpretation. Did the house possess her? Was it all in her own mind? How much was imagined vs real? Obviously not all of it was real, since things like the house starting to come down around them couldn't have happened unless it magically repaired itself.

Most of the characters irritated me. In the end the only one I really liked was Dr. Montague, and that only in a vague sort of way - I didn't particularly like him so much as I didn't dislike him. I guess I also kind of liked Mr. Dudley, for the atmosphere she added to the house and the occasional humor, but I was disappointed she didn't turn out herself to be a possession of the house, which was sort of what I was suspecting of her early on. I guess maybe she might have been if she didn't sleep away from the house. Luke was somewhat charming at first but later on just kind of...boring? and Eleanor's assessment of him as selfish and immature was spot on. He reminded me of some people I know IRL, men who are in their 20s and ostensibly adults but aren't actually very grown up. Theodora I liked quite a lot early on, but she was such a massive jerk to Eleanor later :/ though I wonder if any of that was also the house. Or maybe she was just a backstabbing queen bee. I shipped her and Eleanor for a little while; it's too bad that didn't pan out. (Did anyone else really get the vibe that Theo was not gay or bi? The book was written in the 50s, so it had to be heavily coded. Maybe just me.)

Mrs. Montague and Arthur were both completely obnoxious, but I suppose they were written to be that way.

At the end I was honestly rooting for Eleanor to stay at the house and become completely possessed and go around scaring the bejeezus out of everyone else. Like that was the happy ending I wanted. It would have been better than what actually happened too. (Though maybe Eleanor's ghost will hang around? Doesn't matter much, I guess, since everyone else apparently left right after, and I don't see the Dudleys being much perturbed, especially not at night.)

How does everyone else feel about it? How do you feel about the characters? Did you get any chills or fear while reading? Personally I'd like to see at least one of the movies now that the book is based on; maybe with the sound and visuals the creepy effect will work a little better...

Re: Book club - October discussion - The Haunting of Hill House

[(Anonymous)]

One additional thought:

the house is the best haunted house in literature, and one of the top 5 best houses in literature

Re: Book club - October discussion - The Haunting of Hill House

[(Anonymous)]

I love it. It's my favorite haunted house novel. I agree with the other anon about Eleanor. She was sympathetic and I related to her desire to find a better life. I didn't like Luke much. I don't know whether I like Theodora. Sometimes she's fun but then she can be a jerk too.

I like to think that the haunting was real and not just in Eleanor's mind. That one scene with Theodora seems to imply that there was something there.