[ SECRET POST #5394 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5394 ⌋

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


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[Hello from Halo Head]


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[Naked Lunch]


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[The Musketeers, Richelieu]


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05.
[Gangsta]


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06.
[Babylon 5]


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[Clockwise from top left: Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous, Steven Universe, Undertale]











Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 31 secrets from Secret Submission Post #772.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

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Favorite pieces of fandom jargon

[iff_and_xor]

What are your favourite bits of fandom jargon or slang?

What older or lesser-known terms and expressions do you wish would come into wider use?

Re: Favorite pieces of fandom jargon

[(Anonymous)]

Please bring back "squicks" instead of misusing "toxic" and serious words that actually mean something.

Re: Favorite pieces of fandom jargon

[(Anonymous)]

As mentioned the other day, "I'll be in my bunk" is a great non-explicit way to imply "this is so fucking hot I need to touch myself"

Re: Favorite pieces of fandom jargon

[(Anonymous)]

ZOMG, glomp, squee, and squick. I still use ZOMG unironically.

Re: Favorite pieces of fandom jargon

[pantswarrior]

Despite the fact I hated Whedon's writing even back in the day, I really found the term "jossed" useful on so many occasions, because it was shorthand for such a very specific thing that happens a lot.

It seems like someone told me of a corresponding term for when your headcanon/fic element winds up being canon, as opposed to your headcanon/fic element being contradicted/made impossible by the canon, but I can't remember what it is.

Re: Favorite pieces of fandom jargon

[(Anonymous)]

Lemon and Lime! I miss them.

Re: Favorite pieces of fandom jargon

[(Anonymous)]

i love dead dove do not eat, it just conveys so much, very handy and also outside of fandom context sounds weird which is a bonus

Re: Favorite pieces of fandom jargon

[(Anonymous)]

Woobified, because as a villain fan it sums up a lot of my pet peeves haha :)

I also like squick, wank, notp, and probably more I'm not remembering right now

Re: Favorite pieces of fandom jargon

[(Anonymous)]

As a linguist, for some reason I really like that OTP spawned OT3. It's just such a satisfying construction.

Sporfle

[(Anonymous)]

YKINMKATOK - the 'And That's OK' part especially

Failboat - still a pretty accurate and evocative descriptor

Also, I agree with commenters above about squick and squee.

Re: Favorite pieces of fandom jargon

[pantswarrior]

Oh man, it just occurred to me that there's a whole crop of fandom slang that is (as far as I know) specific to Pokemon, and I toss it around on Facebook all day and my friends know what I'm talking about, then one of my aunts will be like "...I have no idea what you just said, but it sounds good, so I'm happy for you!" :D

My personal favorite is "hundo" and the various permutations like "shundo" and "nundo" (that last one especially makes me laugh).

Re: Favorite pieces of fandom jargon

[(Anonymous)]

Not sure if it’s fandom jargon, but l33t speak.

Re: Favorite pieces of fandom jargon

[(Anonymous)]

I'm going to echo "squee!" Because I feel it really encapsulates all the live and enthusiasm I may have for something in a way other words can't. It evokes a high pitch sound of excitement, it's that exact sound I make when I'm that fucking hype about something.

I just wish it didn't look like some dirty term.

At What Point In A Show/Series You Liked Did You First Feel Like It'd Gotten Less Good?

[(Anonymous)]

As the title says. There are so many shows and series out there that we love up to a certain point, but then for some reason they lose their edge. Maybe the decline is sudden or maybe it's gradual, maybe it's obvious or maybe it's subtle. Maybe other people don't agree that it lost it's edge, or maybe the verdict is almost unanimous.

Talk to me about the points in stories you've liked where you noticed it didn't seem as good anymore.

Re: At What Point In A Show/Series You Liked Did You First Feel Like It'd Gotten Less Good?

[(Anonymous)]

When Bernadette got pregnant on The Big Bang Theory, I knew the show was gonna go downhill fast and it did.

I can’t pinpoint exactly when it happened, but I just don’t enjoy the Treehouse of Horror episodes and I used to look forward to those episodes every year. Even after I stopped watching the new episodes of The Simpsons, I’d still tune in for the Treehouse of Horror episodes, but I don’t anymore.

Re: At What Point In A Show/Series You Liked Did You First Feel Like It'd Gotten Less Good?

[(Anonymous)]

Sonic fans can be pretty contentious as to when the franchise truly lost its edge, but to me, Sonic Heroes was the point in the core series when the wheels started to fly off. (Although it was playable and enjoyable the first time around, the fact that it was the first Sonic Team game after NiGHTS Into Dreams that lacked a reference to it was a big red flag to me.) Shadow was a shocking swerve towards the grimdark, but I'm sure if its gameplay was tied to an original IP with its own characters, it'd be a cult classic like Billy Hatcher. I fell off the wagon completely after what I heard about Sonic 2006 and bouncing hard off Sonic and the Secret Rings.

Re: At What Point In A Show/Series You Liked Did You First Feel Like It'd Gotten Less Good?

[(Anonymous)]

The part of the UK Being Human's season finale when it's revealed that werewolf character's love interest got scratched by him, meaning that she's infected with lycanthropy too, and that's the reason why the werewolf didn't attack her instead of true love. Sorry, maybe it's a cliche, but the Power of Love opportunity was there, and the show just didn't go for it, and decided to introduce a plot thread that instead was very lacklustre enough to instantly drop the show.

Re: At What Point In A Show/Series You Liked Did You First Feel Like It'd Gotten Less Good?

[iff_and_xor]

Once Upon A Time started to feel like it was going wobbly around the time Ursula, Cruella, and Maleficent showed up as a threesome of baddies. But the real warning sign was the badly mis-handled Frozen plot.

(The three villains would have been fine individually, but welding them together was weird and they all felt like they were interpreted much more weirdly than prior characters.)

Re: At What Point In A Show/Series You Liked Did You First Feel Like It'd Gotten Less Good?

[greghousesgf]

Gil showing up constantly in the Simpsons. Whiny desperation is not funny, guys.

Re: At What Point In A Show/Series You Liked Did You First Feel Like It'd Gotten Less Good?

[(Anonymous)]

Voltron really took a drop in the last season. It was getting pretty convoluted leading into season 7 but then it just dived.

Heroes. The first season was so good but then they didn't know how to move forward.

3%. Without the format of the test, they were just spinning their wheels.

Re: At What Point In A Show/Series You Liked Did You First Feel Like It'd Gotten Less Good?

[(Anonymous)]

I'm also feeling sad right now because I feel like 2x01 of Ted Lasso was subtly but pervasively different from the entirety of S1. S1 of Ted Lasso is an absolute gem. I couldn't love it more. It's borderline perfect, IMO. But then 2x01 just felt...off, somehow. It felt like the show was actively trying to be itself?? kind of? Also, it felt like the ethos underpinning the whole thing was kind of muddled and forced. IDK if the writers started second-guessing themselves, or if there was studio interference, or if a particular writer quite and was replace by someone else. I just know 2x01 didn't feel the same. It was 98% the same, but that other 2% made a big difference. Now I'm hesitant to watch anymore, because I kind of want to just remember S1 the way it was.

Personally I feel like B99 lost something when it switched networks after S5. The shift wasn't extremely obvious, but it really effected my enjoyment. There was just something missing that had been there before.

As soon as promo material started coming out about S3 of BBC Sherlock, I was pretty sure it was going to be awful. Then I saw Many Happy Returns and was like, yup, it's gonna be awful. And then it was completely awful. In hindsight, S1 and S2 weren't that great. The show was messy and inconsistent and self-satisfied, even in its prime. But up to the end of S2 it managed to skate along on its good qualities for me. As soon as I saw the first bits and pieces of S3, that's when I was very abruptly aware I didn't like the show at all anymore.

It was actually mid-S4 of Battlestar Galactica before I really had a moment of, okay, the show isn't the brilliant thing it once was. In hindsight, it started losing its edge earlier. I still love most of S3 though.

Re: At What Point In A Show/Series You Liked Did You First Feel Like It'd Gotten Less Good? [VH]

[(Anonymous)]

SyFy's Van Helsing --- It always seemed to get messy mid to late season plotwise only to pull it together at the end and keep you hooked.

I stopped watching during the first few episodes of season 4 but I would say it went down hill after the Season 2 finale -- SPOILERS >>> When Vanessa's whole motivation is to find her daughter Dylan and she overcomes everything thrown at her to be reunited.... only to literally a few seconds later kill the daughter off in a tragic accident kind of way and that was the worst writing ever (especially when Vanessa has some special healing blood as a whole thing ((that her daughter should have inherited btw)).

I was willing to let it go since with this show there is always another twist being set up. In hindsight it was just a sign of how jumbled their own lore and plot points could get. It was especially obvious when they tried to do the same emotional gut punch during the finale of Season 3 (except this time it was Vanessa murdering her only remaining family member (that she had recently discovered) and it wasn't even for a well reasoned action).

[(Anonymous)]

I wish there were more Sabrina the Teenage Witch fanfics out there, the nineties tv show version. I liked that show.

Late night confessions.

[(Anonymous)]

This sounds terrible and unfeeling of me, but I hate it when my husband cries. He doesn't do it often and I believe that man have every right to express their emotions just as women do. But when he cries, it sounds... fake. Like awful and weird and fake. Literally like "Uhhhh HOO HOO HOO", etc.

To be clear, I don't think he's faking. It just sounds like someone who's faking crying, and doing a terrible acting job. It makes me mad because the circumstances in which he cries are often at the height of a heated argument where we're both very upset and I feel like his emotions are real, but kind of... unjustified? For example, we frequently argue because he tends to take me and the things I do for granted. It took numerous battles to get him to do his share of household chores and you can pretty much insert all the helpless man-baby excuses of "he can't see the dirt so he can't clean it up" and "he'll do it later" and "he's too tired to do [15 minute task] but not too tired to play computer games for 2 hours". I get tired of reminding him to do basic adult stuff, and he doesn't like being nagged about it but refuses to do stuff on his own.

He's somewhat aware of his failings to "adult". It embarrasses him, which makes him act defensively and petulantly, like a child. That pisses me off big time because I'm tired of being patient and sweet and reminding him that if he fixes himself lunch (which was also a battle, he used to wait until I made him a sandwich) he should clean up afterwards. At some point you just want to say, it's not hard, wipe up the fucking crumbs and smears of mayonnaise you left all over the counter. Do it as soon as you finish making the sandwich. Do it before you start eating the sandwich. DO IT EVERY FUCKING TIME YOU MAKE A MESS INSTEAD OF LEAVING IT FOR ME TO CLEAN UP.

That's when the tears come. He's soooooo sorry. Uhhhh HOO HOO HOO! He tries sooooo hard! Uhhhh HOO HOO HOO! He'll try harder. Etc. I feel absolutely rage at these moments because he's not the victim here. It took YEARS of fights to get him to feed himself, pick up after himself and he still backslides on a regular basis. If you're still reading, it probably won't surprise you to hear that his mommy did everything for him and never once made him feel like hey, maybe you should clean the bathroom yourself once in a blue moon, or at least learn to not to piss all over the seat. HE'S NOT THE VICTIM HERE. I AM NOT A BAD PERSON FOR DEMANDING THESE STANDARDS. THESE STANDARDS ARE NOT HIGH STANDARDS, THEY'RE EMBARRASSINGLY LOW AND HE'S STILL NOT CONSISTENTLY MEETING THEM. If anyone should be sobbing my goddamn face off, it should be me. If anyone deserves sympathy and a hug, it's ME, not the fucking 30-something baby who can't clean up after himself.



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Ladies, don't marry a manchild. It doesn't matter how much you love him and would die for him, if he can't be a fully functioning adult on his own, you'll end up wishing you'd never met him.