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fandomsecrets2008-09-18 04:22 pm
case) wrote in fandomsecrets2008-09-18 04:22 pm
[ SECRET POST #622 ]
⌈ Secret Post #622 ⌋
Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.
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104, 110, 112, 115, 119, 131, 149, 150, 162, 169
110. Meaning what? You're always picturing him in a dress, or you ship those two characters?
If it's the former, well, you might want to avoid fandoms with British actors, then. And if it's the latter...slash or femslash? I'm curious.
112. ME TOO.
115. (UNANON because, well, I can't be bothered to make a separate comment and don't really care that much.)
I've always thought that fapping to actual fic was...strange. Like, reading R/NC-17 fanfiction is hot, sure. But I just read it to enjoy feeling hot, not to actually complete the act. For one thing, I never feel the urge to carry it further. For another, I don't have my own computer; my family shares one. So those two things are generally totally separate for me.
But...I assumed that other people were the same way. Ever since I realized that some people in fandom really DO fap to fanfic, I've been intensely curious which ones. I study the comments people make in my fandoms, and try to guess. ...That's probably strange.
Although once a few weeks ago when I was feeling REALLY randy I decided I was going to try it to see if it would feel as strange as it seemed. It was like, 2 a.m. Not a peep in the house, and I figured one hand down still-buttoned pants wasn't too risky. But then I couldn't find anything decent to read.
So I fapped to my own. Still unfinished, sadly, so I can't link you. And yes, it seemed a bit strange, but it didn't hurt the process.
But that's the only time I've done it.
119. I have no idea who these people are other than, judging by the context of your secret, they're queer. And possibly one or both of them is trans. And if THAT'S the reason you have a problem with their relationship and the idea that they might have children?
DIE IN A FIRE.
And for thinking that, "lying about having a transgender cousin," (which I assume means making one up, rather than pretending you don't have one) would be a cool thing to do to make you seem open-minded?
Do it slowly.
We don't exist to be your leftist credentials, you douche.
131. I actually respect him more. I mean, it appears that he took the role purely for the money, but what the hell...people take jobs they don't like for the money ALL THE TIME.
I respect that he has the intelligence to realize the book sucks and that Edward is NOT really a heroic character. I think the fact that he knows that is bound to make his performance MUCH better than it would be played by someone who thinks Edward should be a sexy, romantic hero.
I'm actually tempted to see the movie just because of what he's said. I want to see how he handles the character.
And really, so what if he finds the character despicable? What if he was playing an out-and-out villain? Would you object then? Or would you expect him to still play a bad guy, "with all his heart," or (as you seem to mean), without criticizing the character?
149. Aw. I think Corpse Bride was better too, but I still think this was a fantastic movie.
150. I could get behind that.
162. I HAVE THE VERY SAME PARANOIA. Thing about murder is, most people haven't done it. I once wrote a story where a kid kills a cat by beating it to death with a baseball bat, and (within reason), I felt pretty free to go where I wanted with that description. Because really, who would know if I got something, "wrong?"
But sex, that's something a lot of people have had. I'm positive it will show somehow that I don't know what I'm talking about. I don't even care so much about people knowing I'm a virgin; but I would die if that somehow was evident in something I wrote.
I'd consider myself to have failed as a writer if that happened.
169 Awesome. I stumbled across Starsky & Hutch fic on the internet one day completely by accident when I was 16, and it was my personal introduction to fanfic. I loved it, read all the fics I could find of it, but initially had no concept of fandom as something I could be involved in. A year or so later, I ran across HP fic on lj, realized what it must be, and ta-daa, discovered fandom.
Who knows what I'd now be doing with my spare time. Drugs, maybe.
FOR 168
Actually, my favourite book from that series was The Magician's Nephew. I went into that book with NO real religious background or creation myth to speak of; with eyes almost entire new to the idea of a creation story. (All I knew was, "God said, 'Let there be light,'" and there was some sort of garden with naked people in it or whatever.)
And it was THE most powerful and beautiful thing I'd EVER read. In many ways, it still is. I was a child when I read it, mind you, and I haven't read it since, but this was the impression it left on me:
The sense of Aslan as this incredible being FAR beyond our comprehension, who could only appear to us as a lion because no other form came anywhere near to his glory (not that a lion was even that close) deeply moved me. The evocation of the birth of - well, a world, but. I don't know if the book said this or not, but I remember seeing Aslan as somehow beyond everything that ever was or will or could be, that he created all of existence, all the fabric of time and space and anything beyond that of which we are unaware. I felt as though I was glimpsing something so vast that just the sheer scale, the magnificence of it, literally brought me to tears.
And the sense that, despite his unimaginable power, his all-encompassing love for everything - this whole sick, miserable, ugly existence - made him somehow vulnerable made me love Aslan absolutely, with all my heart. I would have rather died than seen him hurt. I didn't want to go back to the non-fictional world - I pretended I was able to hold his mane and tell him that I loved him more than anything, and that I'd spend my life trying to be worthy of his love.
...I only read it the once, and it left such a lasting impression on me that I was afraid to read it again later on for fear that it would not be as wonderful as I remembered. But reading that was definitely the closest to a spiritual experience I ever got. It opened my sense of the universe. I couldn't not cry.
But I also cried because I just knew, with utter certainty, that no being as wonderful as Aslan could ever possibly exist.
Actually, that was probably the thing that led to my love of science fiction. Star Wars and Doctor Who give me more faith in...something, the hope that there is some essential goodness, than religion ever managed to. I think it's always seemed obvious that fiction was the place to look for hope, because that was where I found it in the first place. Or thought I did.
It was not until the new movies came out that I went back and made the mental connection. Christian propaganda fail! How on earth was I meant to realize that the raw, otherworldly vision I saw in that book was somehow connected to humanity's petty gods and oppressive religions? People keep trying to describe their Christian god to me as if he were, well, Aslan, but I can't see what they see; I knew a long time ago that Aslan isn't real. (Guess I never could have ended up a theist.)
And when I did realize the book was one giant allusion to the Christian creation myth...
...It ruined it. Just a bit. Nothing else could have made the memory of that book seem cheap and sleazy for a moment, but that did it.
To me, C.S. Lewis made Christian beliefs into something pure and ineffably wonderful...but only when I didn't know the source.
Now, to borrow a fannish phrase, I can't unsee it.
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(Anonymous) 2008-09-19 08:15 am (UTC)(link)And I kinda could hit it.... >.>
(Secret poster, by the way :D)