[ SECRET POST #4399 ]

[case]

⌈ Secret Post #4399 ⌋

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

01.



__________________________________________________



02.
[Cassandra Clare & her books: TMI/TID/TDA]


__________________________________________________



03.
[Doctor Who]


__________________________________________________



04.
[Canadian ice dancers Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir]


__________________________________________________



05.
[Charmed]


__________________________________________________



06.
[Criminal Minds - season 4, episode 8 "Masterpiece"]


__________________________________________________



07.
[Tidying Up with Marie Kondo]











Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 38 secrets from Secret Submission Post #630.
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

[(Anonymous)]

I think the underlying concept of "sparks joy" is a harder thing to talk about than people realize - we seem to have a hard time, as a culture, dealing with the idea of joy, and I think people find the idea of things "sparking joy" faintly absurd at times.

I completely agree with this. To me "joy" is just a bad choice of words for this purpose. If I got rid of everything I own that doesn't "spark joy" I'd have nothing. I love stuff, but it doesn't give me joy. It gives me pleasure. It can give me comfort. It can be useful. It can be necessary. But it almost never gives me joy, and I don't expect it to.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah... am I supposed to get rid of my standmixer because it doesn't give me joy? I mean... it gives me baked goods which is kind of the same thing, but still...

[(Anonymous)]

My vacuum cleaner is by nature an untidy piece of equipment and it sure as HELL doesn't bring me joy, but I'm keeping it regardless.

[(Anonymous)]

My vacuum cleaner doesn't spark joy -- especially since I can't store it without tripping over it. But clean floors definitely spark joy, and I can't clean them as easily without the vacuum, so there's a transitive property at work there.

[(Anonymous)]

Pretty sure things that are useful and/or necessary are exempt from that rule.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, they are. The "spark joy" is meant to be applied to things that aren't necessary/useful.

[(Anonymous)]

yes unfair and mean she is redhead

[(Anonymous)]

A lot of the controversy is more about the way that Kondo's ideas are presented in headlines and pop-media reporting, rather than in and of themselves.

That's kinda how it goes with most things these days tbh

[(Anonymous)]

Same.

[(Anonymous)]

nayrt - Same. There's lots of stuff I like, and stuff that doesn't "spark joy" but fuck it, I need it and can't just toss it away, that's bananas. I'm just not that emotionally attached to most objects.

[(Anonymous)]

Same. I just would never use the word joy in this context.