[ SECRET POST #5214 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5214 ⌋

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General comments:

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What kind of people do you trust and/or alternatively not trust?

[(Anonymous)]

Inspired by today's secret #5.

Re: What kind of people do you trust and/or alternatively not trust?

[(Anonymous)]

These days I pretty much don't trust anyone. I've decided to secede from humanity and wish I could become a hermit.

Re: What kind of people do you trust and/or alternatively not trust?

[(Anonymous)]

Time and time again it's the people who make the worst first impression on me that later leave with the best lasting impression. Basically, I've learned to give 'open jerks' the benefit of the doubt - though socially distant to the point that they read almost misanthropic, they often have good hearts once they finally grow comfortable around you.

Re: What kind of people do you trust and/or alternatively not trust?

[(Anonymous)]

I trust people who relog all of their likes 100% with my life.

Re: What kind of people do you trust and/or alternatively not trust?

[(Anonymous)]

I can no longer trust celebrities who base their public persona on being kind of an asshole. I've been a fan of too many people for whom that turned out not to be a persona at all.

Same with non-celebrities, actually. Your "sick burns" aren't clever or funny, you're just a dick.

Re: What kind of people do you trust and/or alternatively not trust?

[(Anonymous)]

Well, I don't trust middle aged white guys who bleat about being a feminist ally a lot, that's for sure.

Re: What kind of people do you trust and/or alternatively not trust?

[kaijinscendre]

I don't trust anyone who says they hate kids or animals.

Re: What kind of people do you trust and/or alternatively not trust?

[(Anonymous)]

Honestly, I don't trust anybody! I trusted my mom, but she's gone.

I trusted my ex fiance: cheater. My best friend from school did some jackass things to me later (and actually back then but I was too forgiving). I just lack trust now, generally. I keep my own counsel and rely on myself.

Re: What kind of people do you trust and/or alternatively not trust?

[(Anonymous)]

The kind of people who are a little too into discourse and ship wars.

Like, I get it if it was some of the time because of interests and shit, but when a person just post nothing but what whatever fandoms is problematic - I just know its time to back away and maybe block if needs be.

Re: What kind of people do you trust and/or alternatively not trust?

[(Anonymous)]

People who actively dislike cats get my distrust. I'm often willing to give people who actively dislike dogs a chance, mostly because the majority of people I've encountered who actively dislike dogs do so because they've had bad experiences with violent, aggressive, or otherwise poorly trained/uncontrolled dogs, but people who actively dislike cats...it almost always seems to boil down to them being angry that they can't cow and control a cat as easily as they can a dog (or a person they think is beneath them.) I've met exactly one person who disliked cats for any other reason (with her it was because a cat attacked her as a kid and left her with a lifelong fear of them.) I don't think it's a coincidence that virtually all the people I've met who've hated cats have been men, either. That particular trait of hating anything you can't abuse into submission seems to be particular to a specific type of really unpleasant dude.

Re: What kind of people do you trust and/or alternatively not trust?

[(Anonymous)]

I don't trust people whose self-image is that they're selfless and giving. Not saying I hate them right off the top, or will never trust them no matter what they do. But at least until I get to know them, I don't trust them. In fact, I trust them less than people who straight up admit to being selfish.

The people in my life who see themselves as selfless and giving have generally been the people who have been the most selfish and also the most controlling of others.

Re: What kind of people do you trust and/or alternatively not trust?

[meadowphoenix]

People who defend (their favorite) satire too much. It's entire purpose is to be this side of edgy, it's fine if people understand but still don't like it.

Re: What kind of people do you trust and/or alternatively not trust?

[philstar22]

People I distrust:
1. Anyone who mistreats animals. Anyone who finds joy in hurting an animal, even a kind considered a "pest." Someone who finds joy in hurting something living and vulnerable is not trustworthy in my opinion.

2. People who don't know the difference between opinion and fact and who have an elevated view of the importance of their personal opinions.

3. People who lack compassion and empathy in general. I can trust someone with different views on things, depending on what the particular issue is and how different our views are. But if someone is just completely unsympathetic to anyone who isn't themselves and just assumes the worst of everyone and is self-centered and thinks helping people is stupid, I don't trust them at all.

4. People who aren't kind. Just, people who don't say thank you, or say hello. People who aren't nice to wait staff, employees, or other service industry people. People who just lack basic kindness.

5. Honestly, these days people who vote Republican. I know people who used to be Republicans but who can't in good conscious. But anyone who could vote for the party of Donald Trump, Ted Cruise, and Mitch McConnell, I just am going to be wary of. Maybe they might have a reasonable explanation, but I think it is unlikely.

Re: What kind of people do you trust and/or alternatively not trust?

[(Anonymous)]

I've been in a super small fandom for over 20 years and I really wanted to get out and make friends with the new blood, but every time I look at their blogs, they rant about my existence and the ship that helped me figure out I'm a butch lesbian (doing my own thing in my own blogs) and vaguepost shit about me, and now I just don't trust anyone who vagueposts about people in public. Rude. Very mean girls in high school vibe.

Re: What kind of people do you trust and/or alternatively not trust?

[greghousesgf]

I don't trust anyone who spends half their time complaining about how hard it is to be a parent and the other half trying to talk everyone who doesn't have kids into having them.

Re: What kind of people do you trust and/or alternatively not trust?

[(Anonymous)]

I don't trust anyone who has "minor" in their twitter/tumblr bio. People who list their age and it's below 20 are also on thin ice, but simply saying you're a minor is a GUARANTEE you're that kind of entitled kid who invades explicitly adult spaces and sics your friends on the adults there for making you uncomfy because they're a MINOR and it's every adults job to make their content safe for MINORS!

Re: What kind of people do you trust and/or alternatively not trust?

[(Anonymous)]

Online? I kind of side-eye anyone who primarily refers to themselves as "fandom mom/dad/grandparent/etc." If other people refer to them as that, it's different. But if that's how they're introducing themselves as newbies, it's kind of sketch.

In real life, nosy old people who want to know everything about you because you live next door/shop at the same time as them/whatever. Most of them are probably just trying to be friendly, but it's still kind of creepy. Cool... you noticed I wasn't home for a few days. If I wanted you to know where I was going, I'd have told you before I left. Figure out how to use Netflix or something and leave me alone.

Re: What kind of people do you trust and/or alternatively not trust?

[(Anonymous)]

Anyone who describes themselves as "an empath" or "highly empathic" is immediately on my "do not trust, hell, do not even interact if I can avoid them" list.

In my experience, those people have *always* been, at best, self-centered.

Which poets do you like and/or dislike?

[(Anonymous)]

Inspired by today's secret #1.

Music Share Thread

[(Anonymous)]

For your music sharing and collecting desire.

Legend Of The Sword from the King Arthur OST by Daniel Pemberton
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjWDBEz_6p4

Wishful thinking thread

[(Anonymous)]

Which celebrity or celebrities do you wish you looked like?

Question for UK FSers

[(Anonymous)]

Has anyone tried the lateral flow tests yet?

Argh tw unwanted touching

[(Anonymous)]

I just had a dude sneak up behind me and put his hand, at least I hope it was just his hand, on my ass and then run away while I screamed wtf. My fault for going on a walk at 9:30 pm by myself. My roommate says I need a stun gun, but a) they're illegal here and b) I'd probably electrocute myself with it.

He was a young black guy and I'm a middle aged white lady, so there's no way I'm calling the cops so they can waste resources hunting innocent men who happen to be black and within a ten-mile radius, but I honestly was hoping I was old and fat enough to be invisible to creeps. The last time this happened to me was in 2008, and it's always happened in daylight before.

So far the pattern has been catcalling: groups of young white dudes, "nice tits!": solo old white dudes, catcalling and propositioning followed by vile insults or bottles thrown at me when I ignore them or laugh: solo young white dudes, everything from just creepy to sincere but disturbing flirting: latino dudes, groping and stalking: black dudes (and other white cis women.) I'm ace and sometimes I wonder if I would have been bi instead if I had any positive sex-adjacent interactions to counteract all the fucked up shit.

I just wanted to go for a walk. I don't want to carry mace and be hyper vigilant just to wander around my neighborhood. I'm tired. I posted in the wishful thinking thread earlier, but if I was pretty it would be worse, it was bad enough when I was ugly but young.

Whyyyy/For your current venting needs

[(Anonymous)]

Why am I doing this?!

I'm reading a fic that is...ugh. Just UGH. The story itself (concept) isn't bad. Clichéd and typical for what it is, but it hasn't been awful. What has been awful is the writing. It's not SO bad that I've stopped reading, but OMG you're using words in the wrong context. Like...ugh. i don't think that word means what you think it means (it does not). IT'S DRIVING ME CRAZY BUT I CAN'T WALK AWAY.

It's also a super big fic in the fandom it's in -- someone even interviewed the author lmao. Did the interviewer read it? Idk because my first thought was baby girl you need an editor. A beta. Anyone. Hell, get some grammar app. YOU KEEP MISUSING WORDS?!! WHY?! This is something easily avoided by using a dictionary or Google. Idk. Why am I still reading this? WHY? the worst part is I'm going to read her other story too but this is driving me MAD!!!

I just needed to vent about
1. My unreasonable behavior
2. This person who keeps misusing words (T.T)
3. Damn it i have plenty of other good fic to read why am I still reading this trash?! SOB.