[ SECRET POST #5394 ]

[case]

⌈ Secret Post #5394 ⌋

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


01.



__________________________________________________



02.
[Hello from Halo Head]


__________________________________________________



03.
[Naked Lunch]


__________________________________________________



04.
[The Musketeers, Richelieu]


__________________________________________________



05.
[Gangsta]


__________________________________________________



06.
[Babylon 5]


__________________________________________________



07.
[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.

Comments

Re: Favorite pieces of fandom jargon

[(Anonymous)]

"Don't harsh my squee."
tackleglomp
crossplay
"Share water with me."
K/S
grok
redshirt

Admittedly, some of these are positively antique - dating from the 70's or earlier.

Re: Favorite pieces of fandom jargon

[(Anonymous)]

I did have to google 2, 3, and 4.

And I have renewed my feeling that I should read some Heinlein.

Re: Favorite pieces of fandom jargon

[(Anonymous)]

Nayrt

Resist that feeling

Re: Favorite pieces of fandom jargon

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT: Does it not hold up? I'm not expecting great writing and especially not great sensitivity to any kind of social inequality. I was mostly hoping for some interesting sci-fi concepts.

Re: Favorite pieces of fandom jargon

[(Anonymous)]

I guess the science fiction concepts are still OK. Moon Is A Harsh Mistress probably holds up pretty decently in particular. But, yeah, not a good writer, not sensitive to any kind of social inequality at all, and also just a huge, huge, huge, huge weirdo.

Re: Favorite pieces of fandom jargon

[(Anonymous)]

Thanks, I appreciate the warning

Re: Favorite pieces of fandom jargon

[(Anonymous)]

Also, his later books are really into incest, which... fiction is fiction? But just a heads-up if that's not going to be your cup-of-tea.

The juveniles like 'Have Spacesuit, Will Travel' and 'Podkayne of Mars' were pretty fun, as I recall.

Re: Favorite pieces of fandom jargon

[(Anonymous)]

DA - "Really into incest" like VC Andrews? Or was it just the one book?

Re: Favorite pieces of fandom jargon

[(Anonymous)]

even more different anon

I remember a lot of incest in the Lazarus Long books particularly (including a whole-ass scene where he lectures a brother-sister pair that he saved? adopted? about how You Don't Fuck Relatives Because Recessive Gene Deformities and I think in a later book he fucked the opposite-sex twin clones of himself that someone commissioned so he didn't want to die? and also that time when he settled down with a lady on a mostly unpopulated frontier and they had a whole bunch of kids and talked about how the parents explicitly trained behaviors into the kids so they didn't try to fuck their siblings?) but the whole premise of Lazarus Long was a kind of selective-breeding eugenics thing, so... uh. The incest was probably not even the sketchiest thing in there really.

Though it's been at least a decade, maybe fifteen years, since I last had the urge to read any Heinlein so my memory may color things a bit.

Re: Favorite pieces of fandom jargon

[(Anonymous)]

There's more than one. Uh. A blink-and-you'll-miss-it scene in "Moon Is A Hash Mistress". A longer arc in the first Lazarus Long book where a guy time-travels, becomes great friends with his mother, things continue... It just comes up a lot.

He had some amazing ideas; his female characters were surprisingly assertive and competent for the time he was writing. But he certainly had A Thing.

Re: Favorite pieces of fandom jargon

[(Anonymous)]

Also, a fun note is that Lazarus Long grew up in, and travels back in time to, basically the same time and place as Heinlein himself, which makes Long feel self-insert-y and.... really adds to the squick factor for me.

Re: Favorite pieces of fandom jargon

[(Anonymous)]

Starman Jones is still a good read.

Re: Favorite pieces of fandom jargon

[(Anonymous)]

Lmao I use grok in regular conversation (dig, too lol)

Re: Favorite pieces of fandom jargon

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, "grok" really caught on in programmer circles. I didn't realize it was coined by Heinlein until quite recently.

Re: Favorite pieces of fandom jargon

[(Anonymous)]

"Share water with me." <-- I like this one and wish it was more popular too.

Re: Favorite pieces of fandom jargon

[(Anonymous)]

What does sharing water mean?

Re: Favorite pieces of fandom jargon

[(Anonymous)]

Oh man, I remember when glomping was HUGE.