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⌈ Secret Post #633 ⌋

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132. One fictional character and one factual person who threw their lives away out of self-indulgence.

Their visions were inspirational, but their inconsiderate and poor judgment in execution of those visions were not.

155. LOL what? You think America is better at storytelling than Japan? Or do you mean in this particular instance/fandom, you prefer the American version to the Japanese one? Because there's a huge difference. One is racist, and one isn't. (The racist one being that which generalizes all Japanese stories and storytelling as innately inferior to American stories and storytelling.)

168. The goal of writing anything is to inspire some kind of feeling in your readers, which is as possible with fanfic as it is with original fiction. If you aren't willing to consider fanfiction as "real" writing, you're never going to get anything "consequential" from it - but that doesn't mean no one else will. I don't write fanfiction (at least not any that I post for other people to read), but I've read a lot of fanfics that were as good (or better) than published writing and original stories I've seen. You get out what you put in, imho.

And if your friends are good writers but don't have plans or dreams of writing their own fiction, then let them write fanfic in peace. Not everything has to be of consequence. If they do intend to do original fiction at some point, then fanfic is a fine way to hone their skills. It lets them find voice, practice their grammar/plot structure, and explore character in a safe or familiar world where there is very little pressure in terms of finishing the work or being ~revolutionary~ with their ideas. It's a way for them to write on a regular basis, every day even, when they don't have the time or energy to work on something original. Essentially, it's good practice and can be very fulfilling. When they decide they want to move on to their own work or try something new, they will, but there's nothing wrong with people writing fanfiction, whether they're doing it before their original fiction or whether they're doing it instead of original fic. I don't see why there's any cause for other people to get judgmental about it.

No fiction is of "consequence" by it's own virtue, it's always what you personally get out of it that makes it so.

179. I think it's at least somewhat canon. Maybe not the extent to which people take it, but he was reading while his friends were goofing off in the OWLs memory scene. I would consider that a "bookish" thing to do, reading during your spare time, even just after an exam, and while your friends are providing more than enough to distract yourself with if you wanted to. (I mean before the point in which Sirius and James went off to harass Snape, since he was only pretending to read after that.)

That kid who died out in the woods was a real person too, which makes another person who died from stupid mistakes he could have avoided if he had packed some real food and a decent map.

Oh, you're right! I actually forgot it was based on a true story.

But yeah, I agree. Even just telling someone where he was. I just think it's such a selfish decision to make, considering there are family members and friends who love them back in the inhabited parts of the country. I mean, yeah, this romantic idea of going out into the wilderness and finding out who you are and all the rest of this philosophical/existential aspect of life, it's a very easy thing to want. But when it comes down to it, everyone owes at least something to the people in their lives who MEAN something, and that sequence at the end of Into the Wild where he's thinking about his life and his family members at the moment of his death, it just makes the whole trip seem like such a waste. He really needed to starve to death, alone, in Alaska to figure out that he loves his family and needs people in his life to keep him healthy and happy?

Haven't seen the movie, but I had to read the book for a senior English class in my last year of high school. The teacher honestly expected us to take something good and noble from what he had done, aside from "Pack food, warm clothes, good boots and a map." It was pretty funny because pretty much everyone agreed the guy was an idiot.

I think America is just plain better than Japan. Sorry for loving my country.

If Japan want to like themselves better then they can go for it. I don't care.

So why bother writing "I'm not racist" in your secret?

You know you can love your country without thinking it is "better". Japan and the US are different, they are not better or worse.

Um, no one knows what you're even talking about in this secret. :\

You are not racist and see your country as automatically better than another. I see...
Is your best friend japanese?

Here, have some WORD.

But he was reading a Transfiguration texbook in the memory scene. I'm definitely not saying that Remus never reads or doesn't study or anything like that. My objection to the whole 'bookish Remus' thing is that he is so often presented in fanon as reading great works of literature and there is absolutely no implication of that. I've always seen canon Remus as exceedingly practical in character. I have no problem with people portraying Remus as bookish but I just find the extent to which poetry reading Remus is taken as canon kind of ridiculous.

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