[ SECRET POST #069 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #069 (lolz) ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe.

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Notes:

Gah, messed up the link in my last post, so #17's been reposted. Sorry about that, #17!

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Comments

[victorisham.livejournal.com]

4. Yeah, manga's the only type of fiction where bad guys always lose.

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-snkt-

[(Anonymous)]

17. You're not alone.

[lockjaw.livejournal.com]

16. I second this :[

[(Anonymous)]

17: guilty... sorta

....post ~69~ u_______u

[some-kat.livejournal.com]

5. I..I tried to play it, I really did, but I just couldn't get into it. I have no idea why, either. I liked watching other people play it and I like the story and all, but I just can't play it. ._.

11. I'm so far behind in that series T___T I need to catch up DX

16. I've about given up on parts of my flist.

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[anna-chronism.livejournal.com]

Hey, let's do it!

And actually, although she's not a BNF, Stephanie Pearl-McPhee (the yarn harlot of knitting fame) has done something similar with knitters.

[(Anonymous)]

5. Hey, I help mod an FFVII-related comm and I'm tempted to defriend our own comm because of all the stupidity that goes down in it. DON'T WORRY, US SANE FFVII FANS? YEAH. WE KNOW HOW RIDICULOUS OUR CANON AND RETARDED OUR FANDOM IS BETTER THAN ANYONE. X_X

(And yet I still love it, abusive boyfriend it is. Whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy)

[luzerna.livejournal.com]

5. WORD. It could be a nostalgia factor, like why people are still so obsessed with Sailor Moon and Digimon while the rest of their interests lie in more mature shows/books/what-have-you. Final Fantasy 7 was a great game for its time but it just can't compete anymore with some of the newer games. I guess I might have been jaded to it because I tried to get into it so late (around this time last year) but FF7 didn't live up to the fandom's promise.

14. It's hard bein' a celebrity. :( Not that I know from personal experience, but I could see why fans get to them. It's pretty well-known that fandom is populated mostly by half-brained idiots. If you were bombarded constantly with emails like "omg i luv ur stuff axel is soooo kyoot" or "wow ur a total b*atch and u suck why dont u just jump of a cliff alredy???" you'd probably get sick of it too. I sure would.

I've had the chance to speak with one or two people that would probably be labeled BNFs. They were both really nice people. BNF is really just another meaningless label to me now, like "emo" is; maybe I'm so out of it that I don't know of the cocky, airheaded little bums the term is so often attributed to but I've never seen one.

[kinneas.livejournal.com]

5. The game is shit, and that's why people are so attracted to it for fandom purposes, I think. When you've got characters that are just archetypes and trite plot, both have potential for massive growth. No one wants to expound on a world or characters that are already complete <3  

15. Not-so-secret: I haven't read my flist in years 8D I read individual people's LJs, sure, but that's about it.

[cakemix.livejournal.com]

13.) ... lol he DOES XD

[hughes]

5. DON'T FORGET YOU STILL LOVE IT. I STILL LOVE IT. ...GOD, WHY DO WE STILL LOVE IT.

[kinneas.livejournal.com]

I would like to point at the goings-on in damned for that answer.

[keikain.livejournal.com]

I think a lot of the problem is people don't really recognize that BNFs are people, too. From what I've seen, people don't even try to be discrete about bashing them and are very forceful about requesting things they want from them. And, of course, they tend to attract the usual suck-ups hoping BNF-dom would rub off on them by association.

It's no wonder a lot of BNFs end up disliking fandom and their fans before they even realize that other people are calling them BNFs.

[hughes]

...Good point. <3

[kinneas.livejournal.com]

HOW APPROPRIATE AN ICON.

btw your post <33

[hughes]

13. I used to be so obsessed with that anime, ohmygod. IT'S EMBARRASSING. I WAS IN LOVE WITH BROCK. My first fandom obsession. ;_;

...I mean, I of course know it's retarded now, and towards the end of my being obsessed with it, I knew how retarded it was and actually joined a group of more-mature fans who knew it was retarded but loved it anyway, and. Yeah. No, that makes sense. The games are genuinely fun and the emphasis is on gameplay rather than plot, and... yeah, Pokémon plot? Not really stellar. XD

12. Although this has to do more with the aforementioned secret than Sonic, I felt the same way about the Pokémon anime when they fired all the old voice actors and replaced them with new ones after they left 4Kids. I mean, not that there was much respect left to lose, but now I can't even watch the stupid new episodes for nostalgia's sake. :[ IT'S ALL RUINED.

[hughes]

APPROPRIATE INDEED.

:DDD <333

[vriska.livejournal.com]

5. I agree with the people who said that they tried to play this game and couldn't. I just couldn't get into the story, and I did give it a fair chance. I played about a quarter of the way through, roughly, and just didn't pick it up again. It really wasn't THAT great.

13. I used to like the show. XD I grew out of it, though. The movies kind of started going downhill after the third one, anyway. But I also had a huge obsession with it, with the human characters moreso than the Pokemon at times. It was amazing, I did so much horrible fanart.

But I still like the games, and am still planning on buying the new DS game. ...Even though most of the new Pokemon look really uninteresting and sucky. The older games really were better, though. Gold/Silver = LOVE. ♥

re: 5

[aestivalis]

........ I genuinely think series one of Digimon is an emotionally mature show, irrespective of any kinda nostalgia factor >:

[(Anonymous)]

17) Oh, you're not the only one. Although I'm too scared to play an uke because there's so many people always bitching about them. I've NEVER RP'd an uke because of that. But ditto on the fantasy bit.

Re: 5

[radarsparks.livejournal.com]

Seconded. *-*

[some-kat.livejournal.com]

5. You got farther than I did, then. It wasn't that I couldn't get into the story, it was just something about the gameplay I had a hard time with. I loved watching other people play it, though D:

[stormbringer986.livejournal.com]

2. I know a lot of people like that, in and out of fandom. You're nice to them one time for ten seconds and that automatically means you're BFFs for life.

4. It's not just sports manga. The villians never win, no matter how screwed the good guys seem to be. I HATE IT. I am totally biased since I've always been more for the villians anyway, but it still annoys the hell out of me! Stupid, stupid plot holes and god-modding! (Can you tell this is a pet peeve?)

10. I wonder the same thing about myself.

[liltigre.livejournal.com]

3) You remind me of a friend I have who runs his CoX groups the samy way. Listened in on a Teamspeak session of theirs once and swore i'd never play under him- he SCARED me. O_o

5) I dunno. For me it's just that it was my first real console RPG. Not the greatest, not the best, but my first. Kinda like your first time having sex, but... not. :D

7) None of my furry friends use the word 'fursona'. Except my ex-boyfriend, but that's because he's a fursuiter.

8) ..... is there an avatar maker for that game on the web? :D It's kyuute!

13) I can remember waiting in line in Osaka to get a copy of Pokemon Silver when it first hit (and playing Pokemon Yellow while in line). Don't like the anime, only liked the first two movies... but the games? Big hell yeah. LOVE the games. .............. and Ash is floating in a giant glowy golden penis. WTF.

[fairyfey.livejournal.com]

1. I trust everyone currently on my f-list (most of which I met through fandom), but certainly not everyone I meet. I've Definitely met some weirdos. D:

9. I love making friends through this comm!

11. This happens to me with many, many shows. D: Like when everything else came back in February or March and Stargate was like, "LOLZAPRIL."

13. Definitely not just you. *DIES*