[ SECRET POST #4132 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4132 ⌋

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

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02.
[Jay and Silent Bob]


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[Louisa May Alcott, An Old Fashioned Girl]


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[The Maze Runner, Thomas/Minho]


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06.
[First Wave (Scifi Channel)]


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07. [SPOILERS for Black Panther]



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08. [WARNING for sexual abuse]

[The Fall Part 2: Unbound]









Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 00 pages, 00 secrets from Secret Submission Post #591.
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.

Comments

Re: Times you knew people were lying or not totally honest

[type_wild]

Where: The LJ comm of Some smallish BL Fandom

When: Probably some twelve, thirteen years ago, by now

Who: A gay guy who appeared on the biggest fandom comm, probably wrote some fic and might have taken part in the discussions on the basis of being a Gay Guy with authority to be talking about gay manga. Either way, the girls are extatic to have an authentic speciment around and he's quickly befriended at least half of the population on the comm. I was the one who wasn't friends with anyone there in the LJ definition of it and hung out on the comm to chime in on discussions; I don't think I ever actually talked to him, but I was fascinated by his meteor rise in popularity and I would occasionally be checking on his journal. He'd write about his life with his boyfriend. The girls all loved it in a way that I'm sure we'd all be super uncomfortable about today.

Part of why I never actually talked to him might've been because I just couldn't shake the feeling that there was soemthing off about him that I just couldn't put my finger on.

Until I checked on his journal a few months after he first appeared, and found a long confession about how everything he'd written about himself and his boyfriend was totally true, except that he was a woman.

And I just went "oooh, of course", and to this day I've been wondering if there are some subtle linguistic difference between men and women, with the way this person just felt so much more right to me after revealing that she'd been lying for half a year.

Re: Times you knew people were lying or not totally honest

[(Anonymous)]

pre-identity politics era, most people who made a big deal about being what they are came off fake because everyone else was trying to be a "normal" person.

now, who knows, lol.

Re: Times you knew people were lying or not totally honest

[(Anonymous)]

"to this day I've been wondering if there are some subtle linguistic difference between men and women"

There are! Women tend to soften statements and use more words

Fandom is even more divided because the linguistics of male dominated and female dominated places have different memes and stylistic choices (compare 4chan's greentexting to tumblr's no caps and informal spellings.) It's not hard to figure out where people frequent ime, especially if they're informal.

Re: Times you knew people were lying or not totally honest

[(Anonymous)]

True that re: linguistics. I know for sure I change how I communicate depending on what site I'm on. I use more words, soften criticsm, and explain myself more thoroughly on dw and tumblr than on reddit for example. On the former, I anonymously pass as a girl. On the latter, I anonymously pass as a guy. No one's questioned it.

I wonder which people would guess is real if they somehow connected my accounts from both sites.

Re: Times you knew people were lying or not totally honest

[type_wild]

The more you know! I wonder if I might've somehow picked up on that, then, or if it wasn't just what the anon above pointed out: back in 2005, it was unusual to see someone make a fuss about being the only gay in the village.