[ SECRET POST #4258 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4258 ⌋

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

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03. [SPOILERS for Netflix's Death Note]



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04. [SPOILERS for Room]



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05. [SPOILERS for Hap and Leonard season 2]

[Tiffany Mack]


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06. [SPOILERS for Banana Fish]



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07. [SPOILERS for Queen of the Sylphs]



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08. [SPOILERS for Cloak and Dagger]
[WARNING for discussion of sexual assault]



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09. [WARNING for discussion of suicide, sexual assault, #metoo]

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Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

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Ask your random questions

[(Anonymous)]

Mine below.

Re: Ask your random questions

[(Anonymous)]

If I live in a polytheistic society and there's one particular god who I feel closer or more attuned to than the others, would I say that god is my "patron god"? Or is there a better word? When I google it, I get stuff about gods being patrons of specific cities and such before it starts talking about people, and I want to use the right word in my writing.

Re: Ask your random questions

[(Anonymous)]

The term I see most commonly in the fantasy genre is "patron deity".

Re: Ask your random questions

[(Anonymous)]

I think that would be an acceptable usage? Or just "the god that I worship" or "my god" or something like that could also work. I don't think there's really one specific correct formulation for it.
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Re: Ask your random questions

[(Anonymous)]

I think 'patron god' works. Also, 'protector god' or 'champion god' might work.

Re: Ask your random questions

[(Anonymous)]

Are you talking about real life modern polytheistic societies? Or in a hypothetical one?

In the second case, patron deity would work just fine. I see it used in fantasy a lot.

Can't say about real modern polytheistic societies, probably depends on the one in question if there's a mindset of having a special relationship with one deity, rather than a large range of deities being associated with certain traditions/places/concepts/etc. and so having one "patron" deity wouldn't make sense.

Re: Ask your random questions

[(Anonymous)]

Why is men's underwear so dang bulky?

My job sometimes involves extended labor outdoors in hot weather with a lot of walking. One time, I realized my (women's) underwear was chafing around where my legs meet my crotch, so I solved the problem by buying men's boxer briefs (technically boys' boxer briefs, since I couldn't find men's ones that were small enough in the waist) because they go down the leg a bit and won't cause chafing along the leg hole. A number of years later, I discovered women's boxer briefs had become a thing and I started buying those and immediately loved them more because the fabric was thinner with an un-bulky waistband (much nicer in hot weather). I know a lot of women's clothes are made thinner because it's cheaper to produce and it forces us to buy more because we need to layer it or it wears out faster, but this is one instance where I think thinner is better, and my ladies' boxer briefs aren't wearing out any faster than my other underwear, which is just as thin (and tends to last years).

How do you stand wearing all that fabric, guys?

Re: Ask your random questions

[(Anonymous)]

Well, men's underwear tends to be made for people with penises and testicles, hence the extra fabric bc you need room for those things.

Re: Ask your random questions

[(Anonymous)]

IDK, my boxers are fairly lightweight

I don't really fuck with boxer briefs so I can't answer from that specific point of view

Re: Ask your random questions

[(Anonymous)]

I think guys' underwear waistbands have to be more heavy duty. Most men tend have something that dangles and could pull underwear down.

Re: Ask your random questions

[(Anonymous)]

Some of the pricier men’s boxer briefs I’ve seen seem fairly streamlined and closer to women’s boxer briefs - price is usually specialized materials (fast-drying or for comfort). The only brand I remember off-hand is Zimmerli, a Swiss manufacturer.

Re: Ask your random questions

[soldatsasha]

It's not necessarily more bulky? There's just as wide of a range of mens' stuff as womens' stuff. Girls can buy ridiculously bulky not-so-tighty-whiteys and guys can buy super streamlined sleek stuff.

But in general I think guys underwear might be a bit more substantial because we've got a lot more stuff swinging around down there? Like, it would really be a problem if every time we moved a little too much our dicks came slinging out the leg hole of our briefs, or our boxers got pulled down, or whatever.

Disclaimer: Am not an anti-vaxxer

[(Anonymous)]

As described above, not an anti-vaxxer. But I am trying to understand something.

I've spoken to people and read articles written by people who claim their children with autism showed absolutely no symptoms until they got vaccines. Sometimes they report the kids got sick; other times, not so much. Either way, they'll claim that the child changed almost overnight.

I know correlation does not equate causation. However, I do want to understand why symptoms seem to happen so soon after. I have to admit that sounds a bit suspicious to me, even if I don't believe vaccines cause autism.

Re: Disclaimer: Am not an anti-vaxxer

[philstar22]

Actually, the symptoms of autism in general appear around the age that shots are given. So it is a complete coincidence.

Re: Disclaimer: Am not an anti-vaxxer

[dani_phantasma]

Symptoms of autism don't become apparent until a little later. Like the time around a kid gets vaccines or after.

Autism is a developmental disorder, it affects you during development.

The reason parents are saying this tells me they don't really understand autism and how it works and what is is.

Re: Disclaimer: Am not an anti-vaxxer

[(Anonymous)]

What philstar said. It's a combination of things.

* The age kids get vaccinations is also right around the time that you'd start noticing autism symptoms.

* A whole lot of confirmation bias: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias

Peoples' perceptions are highly subjective. It's highly likely that no, their kid didn't actually change overnight and has been displaying the signs of autism for a while but because the whole false vaccinations = autism thing is so common, parents are paying more attention AFTER vaccinations than before, and they're noticing things they failed to pick up on previously.

Re: Disclaimer: Am not an anti-vaxxer

[(Anonymous)]

As an autistic person whose vaccination records were marked EXEMPT all through school and who went and got vaccinated as an adult for pretty much everything but polio (I got that one as a kid; don’t see anyone arguing that the polio vaccine causes autism); autism symptoms show up/become noticeable at around the same time kids get vaccinated.

Re: Disclaimer: Am not an anti-vaxxer

[(Anonymous)]

Well, part of the problem is that you're taking those reports at face value, but they're the usually the observations of people who aren't healthcare professionals and have no training or expertise in diagnosing autism. In addition to that, they're coming from an anti-vaccination pov, which is frankly, anti-scientific and means they're even less well equipped to diagnose autism and the possible causes. Their observations about how and when symptoms appear need to be taken with a biiiiig grain of salt.

Re: Disclaimer: Am not an anti-vaxxer

[(Anonymous)]

As others have said, autism symptoms tend to show up/be more noticeable around the time kids get vaccines. There's also a type of autism called regressive autism where kids appear to develop normally, but start losing the skills they have and stop meeting milestones. It also shows up around the same age kids get their vaccines. I worked with a lady whose older son was diagnosed with regressive autism and she's certain the vaccines caused it, so she's not vaccinating her baby. I know she struggles with the oldest kid because he's very low-functioning and it must've been heartbreaking to see him stop speaking, but I also can't help thinking she's irresponsible for risking her baby's health.

Re: Disclaimer: Am not an anti-vaxxer

[(Anonymous)]

Possibly simply because a lot of the early first signs of autism show up the same age that kids start getting shots. Also, confirmation bias. For parents, there can be a LOT of denial of symptoms involving anything possiblz neuro-atypical; when they can't be ignored anymore, you cast about for a reason that their "suddenly acting odd"; alternately, a lot of it is munchausen-by-proxy - parents see symptoms in their kids because they're looking for them.

Re: Disclaimer: Am not an anti-vaxxer

[soldatsasha]

Confirmation bias and parents' belief that they always know best about their kid. It's the same blindness that lets parents think their hellspawn is a perfect angel, no matter how many times the kid gets sent to the principal's office.

You have to remember that it's a very narrow stretch of time we're talking about, in the life of the average kid. Autism generally STARTS showing signs at 1-2 years, but at that age a lot of the symptoms are normal little kid behaviors and parents aren't necessarily going to think anything is wrong. Kids get vaccinated before they start school, so, 4 years old, right at the age where those autism behaviors and issues are becoming more obvious, and more outside people are interacting with the kid and noticing them.

So, little kid gets vaccinated, six months later they're starting pre-K and all of a sudden their parents are realizing the weird stuff they do is a symptom of autism. So they think back to when they first noticed the kid stimming or whatever, and it was probably pretty damn recent.

And of course a lot of people are suspicious of vaccines to begin with, so it's really easy for those parents to pinpoint the start of problems to when those awful doctors pumped their kid full of scary chemicals (even thought most of the time the symptoms probably started way before but the parents just didn't notice). There's also a lot of parents who can't accept that their kid is just naturally "flawed", so they latch onto vaccines (or pesticides, or whatever) as a cause for their kid's problems.

Re: Ask your random questions

[(Anonymous)]

Is it just me, or is it really rude to start arguments with other people's friends in comments their Facebook or LJ posts? The only time I did it was when someone said something was racist. But I've seen people do it when there was no real reason to.

WARNING: poop, nail-biting, general gross-out potential

[(Anonymous)]

Third comment just to be sure it collapses.

Spoilers for Banana Fish ep. 9

[(Anonymous)]

So how exactly do you deal with the fact that your favorite character died? Because I just finished watching the new episode for Banana Fish and I am not okay.

For Kindle/e-reader users and folks reading textbooks

[(Anonymous)]

I was considering buying a kindle so that I could read my textbook in it (pdf). It's image heavy, and for context, I've only been using my phone to read it.

I don't mind manual zoom in, I'm just wary about wasting my money. I have a cheap tablet but the battery drains quickly and I don't always have a power source around.

Would you recommend getting the Kindle if you're using PDFs? I know they can be converted...