[ SECRET POST #5096 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5096 ⌋

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


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[The Great British Bake Off, series 11]


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[Story of Yanxi Palace]


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Comments

True Crime

[(Anonymous)]

Are you into it? What shows/podcasts/books are your favorites?

Re: True Crime

[(Anonymous)]

I've avoided it over the last year because I felt like it was putting me in a negative place...but I did listen to Casefile for a while. Shows -- 20/20 and whatever is the one with Ted Danson? And Forensic Files.

Re: True Crime

[kaijinscendre]

Yeah, I was really into True Crime books growing up. But these days I mostly listen to podcast and sometimes watch shows. My favorites are Casefile and Last Podcast on the Left.

TW self harm

[(Anonymous)]

True crime freaks me out but I read crime news stories and I've seen a couple good docs. The HBO series I Love You Now Die is about that girl who encouraged her bf to commit suicide. It was pretty interesting because I followed that case in the news but there were facets to it that were totally unclear in the stories I read. Mommy Dead and Dearest is interesting because it's complex, as well. The abuse Gypsy went through was horrific but she was already planning on running away. She didn't need her boyfriend to murder her mother. It was exhausting to watch.

Re: TW self harm

[(Anonymous)]

DA

I saw that I Love You Now Die documentary, too! I wasn't too familiar with that story outside whatever brief mentions of it had popped up in the news, but yeah, it was quite an interesting, detailed look into a horrifically sad story. I remember there were a couple people being interviewed for the documentary, one a magazine writer, the other a doctor, who had some particularly good insight into the case and the issues involved, and how it all fit into a broader societal context.

I haven't seen the other documentary you mention, but I am familiar with that Gypsy Blanchard case, 'cause it's been covered in so many outlets, and it's just...absolutely wild. The thing I still can't wrap my head around is how they were able to get past so many doctors and nurses with their scam for so long.

Re: True Crime

[philstar22]

I used to be super into it. But I've become so turned off by police and the tactics they use and misuse that it now makes those things too uncomfortable to me. Even when going after genuinely awful people, just knowing that the rules don't apply to the police and that perfectly innocent people can be hurt in the process of what they are doing gives me pause. Plus, once you start to realize it, you start to see how biased the perspectives of those things often are. There are rarely true crime things that show all sides, that show why someone did what they did, that show any sympathy or anything but wanting to see them get the worst punishment possible.

Re: True Crime

[(Anonymous)]

True crime is such a squick to me. The idea of benefiting off the tragic death of a real life person and creating fantastical fictions of what 'really' could have happened is absolutely traumatic to me. I mean, even beyond the glorification of that persons death, just the thought of the people who decidedly look for unsolved/difficult murders only to pick and choose whose lost life is more spectacular and therefore more worthy of publication and profit in the long list of forgotten individuals just churns my stomach.

Re: True Crime

[(Anonymous)]

I only watch True Chapter and Buzzfeed Unsolved. I used to watch more but realised I would get too upset.

Re: True Crime

[(Anonymous)]

For podcasts, My Favorite Murder and Wine and Crime (both come from a female perspective, and so they often highlight the red flags that police often dismiss when women make accusations). They're also both comedy true crime so you can get some stress relief as well. For books, I highly recommend American Predator by Maureen Callahan. She does not pull any punches about the utter incompetence of the (in this case, Alaskan) police when it comes to victims who are society cast-offs.