[ SECRET POST #789 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #789 ⌋

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

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 06 pages, 129 secrets from Secret Submission Post #113.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 2 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 - too big ], [ 1 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

119

[ac-123.livejournal.com]

I understand how you feel, too. I gave American Life on Mars a shot and I found it pretty entertaining. I get angry at it every so often (because it had potential but it's a bitch and doesn't even try and look where it ended up?!) but what really makes me angry (and makes me feel bad about myself and doubt that I'm a fan of the British series) is that people would dismiss the American one so easily. (It was good...at some parts.)

Bit rambly, but my point is: you're not the only one who feels that way and you're not the only one upset about it...

119 - OP

[(Anonymous)]

Thank you, that's a comfort to hear. You've expressed some of the same things I've been feeling.

I'm not that bothered that some people don't like a show I like, and I'm not about to go around demanding everyone who didn't like it defend their opinion so I can challenge them point for point or whatever, but it's really frustrating when anyone takes a "Well, of course it sucks!" attitude about something.

I'm very miffed by the cancellation. There were characters and plot threads that were developing very differently than in the original and that I really wanted to see explored further.

[allodole.livejournal.com]

144. That movie is one of the most loveliest I've ever seen. It makes me like a happy little kid again! (.. I'm not that old, though.)

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[lotusunset.livejournal.com]

OP, you're definitely not the only one. I do that too....=)

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[sammywhatammy]

108. NODAMEEEEEE. I live almost literally right next door to a music college. Sometimes I wonder if there's someone Nodame like studying there ;_;

120. LAWL I had to admit that it crossed my mind at that moment...

126. Don't XD I think that's part of the point. And you're definitely not alone.

134. /makes a note to check him out

149. do i no u

Re: 108, 120, 126, 134, 149

[(Anonymous)]

149. I highly doubt that, since I have no acquaintances in the LJ community. (Except for one, maybe?)

#112

[tod-hollykim.livejournal.com]

Again, get over yourself. If you don't like Hallo's art, THEN DON'T LOOK AT IT.

Real simple.

And, no, her fans come in all ages. I'm in my 50's.

Bashing and threatening someone because of her fan art, specially hiding your ID like a coward, only shows you in a bad light.

Hallo, like most of her friends, post what we do, fic and art, out of love of the show. But you seem to have more venom and are only looking for attention, troll.

Re: #112

[(Anonymous)]

This defense is hilarious considering the things she's said about you behind your back.

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[(Anonymous)]

140. You are so batshit, how can you live with yourself? How dare you dimiss Paul's love for Linda, and John's love for Yoko as some gimmick to justify your insane shipper fantasies? Get a fucking life and grow up, my god. Even if John and Paul were ever involved, they obviously weren't by 1969 and there is NO FUCKING REASON for you to belittle their wives to try to justify that they were. In short, I hate you and I bet they would too. :D


153. Wow, not hot enough together? Shallow much?

Re: 140

[(Anonymous)]

Thank you. Maybe a bit tougher on the OP than I'd be able to write, but I can't stand when people ignore John and Paul's devotion to their wives just so they can imagine the guys together. wtf, people?

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[aetherae.livejournal.com]

THIS. Diva is my favourite character in the entire series, and while I do love her craziness, I think she's a pretty tragic character. I mean, all she wanted in the end was a family. She couldn't even get that. :/

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[ironjill.livejournal.com]

Don't feel bad. I love Deadpool for his insanity and the way he is the way he is! Plus, I'd totally hit it. =/

OP

[(Anonymous)]

YES I WOULD HIT IT WITH THE FURY OF A NORSE GOD

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[mimes.livejournal.com]

106 - APPLAUSE FOR YOUR WONDERFUL TASTE!

114 - I'm with you. It sucks to see, well, things that suck, but you're right in saying that we aren't entitled to anything.

124 - I love genfic myself, but maybe some people think that if they wanted gen, they'd just watch the show (or what have you)?

129 - It's only the crazy obnoxious ones that are so annoying, and you'll find them outside of fandom too. I know where you're coming from, though.

134 - ~*Fandom*~ doesn't need to. But if that kind of thing floats your boat, go ahead, and I hope you find more people who that kind of thing too.

145 - Well, you know, the time travel bit is probably the problem here. Maybe the saved the world bit too.

146 - Oh, buddy, that's never going to happen. There's like, what, gonna be three new episodes?

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[(Anonymous)]

OP here.

You neeeeeever know. I don't think ANYBODY saw Dr. Who becoming a fandom full of squeeing teenagers. It was for the OLD nerds. The guys who showed up at SCA meetings in Vulcan ears. The guys who knew what the SCA was, for that matter.

...And I am so dating myself here, aren't I?

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[onnanifujiyuu.livejournal.com]

128: Whats with the recent hate on this series? and I don't remember it ever standing for anything just an evolution of a four-panel.

145: yeah gonna have a hard time finding the "Time Traveler" and "Saving the World Categories"

150: So your saying you and your friend have sociopathic tendencies? Yes both of them are Sociopaths. I love the series, but unless you can psychologically relate to allowing people to die, torturing, and directly killing people: you or your friend do not have their personalities.

157: Gaia secret ftw!

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[(Anonymous)]

101. Hello, me.

155. There's a difference between canon and popular representations of major pairings. (fanon?)

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[(Anonymous)]

I wonder if 134 is the same theorist who brought us yesterday's yonic reflections.

129. If fen turned you off "the cause of feminism", then you either never understood feminism in the first place, or you have some hardcore privilege issues.

Seriously, if you've been able to see through the smokescreen and really grasp the inequalities upon which feminist thought is based, and then you shrug it off and give it the finger because you don't like the way one group do their feminism, you were never going to be much use to anybody anyway, were you?

[(Anonymous)]

129) It's kind of dumb to be "turned off" of human rights for women and transgendered folk because most people in fandom happen to be feminists. Who cares?

If you are turned off by rights of women because you don't like uppity feminists in your fandoms or something, then maybe you should try leaving fandom instead? (Hell, you might try leaving the civilized world period...) You can't really make people stop being feminist, feminism has already basically won in so many ways I don't think there is much help for you.

[(Anonymous)]

*I say rights for women+the transgendered, but feminism is also about rights and freedom for men too, especially when it comes to gender roles...

Anyway, I've read a few comments from traditionalists saying "oh feminists are sometimes annoying"--but so are some traditionalists so who cares?

There really is no excuse for trying to oppose human rights, I'm afraid.

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[yatsirch.livejournal.com]

110. While I might not hit all of those guys, I've had the exact same fixation since early childhood. I can't explain it, but masked dudes have always er...intrigued me.

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[quadruplify.livejournal.com]

110. I don't agree with everyone there (I don't care if serial killers and psychopaths are sexy, they're still serial killers and psychopaths), but yeah, I hardly blame ya. mask fetish FTW!!!!

134. I commented on other people's responses, but I'll add this: not ~*~everyone~*~ needs to do this, but I certainly wouldn't mind a little more depth and a little less shallowness in fandom in general.

149. What fandom is this?

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[(Anonymous)]

149. Blood +

[(Anonymous)]

154: ...I'll admit it. I've thought about that before. Well, not the fanart particularly, but just in general when reading Hetalia. >_>

But. I try to push it out of my mind. I'm not sure if that's a good thing or not. ^^;;

But for the record, I still like Hetalia a lot. <3

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[distorted-r.livejournal.com]

114. I mostly agree with this, aside from the mary-sue insert fanfictions. Here's the reality about those:

1. We all have these fantasies in our heads about being a character in a fandom and interacting with everyone.
2. They are fun to think about.
3. They might even be fun to write about if it helps you enjoy them more.
4. When it comes to these self-insert fantasies, we only are interested in our own.
5. NO ONE ELSE WANTS TO READ or HEAR ABOUT THEM. NO ONE. WE DON'T CARE.
6. They clog up fanfiction.net anyway and ruin otherwise decent fanfictions, because, hey, we want to read about the fandom, not about your OC you inserted in there. You might have a good fanfciton idea and all the other characters might be IC, but your OC is like a cockroach in the middle of the most perfect ice cream sundae.

There, otherwise, fine. I don't think we have a write to judge anyone else based on writing style/ability or drawing a style/ability, aside from the occasional constructive criticism if the maker so desires.

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[mimes.livejournal.com]

I never saw the point in Mary Sues, honestly. If I had fantasies about being in a fandom, I'd rather imagine myself doing it than some character doing it for me. Then I figured that the thought in itself was embarassing (when I was thirteen, I thought I was the only person who did this) so I wouldn't post it. I'm with you there, though, no one is interested in your self-insert fantasies other than the yourself.

Of course, back in those days I wrote a few OCs, but I never made them do what I wanted to do.

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[jordandesolated.livejournal.com]

I used to do that too. It was Bill and Hector for me. Bootstrap and Barbossa, that is, from PoTC. I was Bill.

Then I fell in love. And you know what?

Sleeping with my boyfriend is great, but sometimes I still miss my boys.

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[hoozilla.livejournal.com]

136. Now I want to see Tony Stark doing an Old Spice commercial like that. It'd be kind of the best thing.

151. Dude, even if he wasn't my drug dealer, I would just love to be his friend. That'd be enough \o/

[g9fsh48jbnda5v1.livejournal.com]

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Anti-aliasing (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-aliasing).

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That's cute. Too bad reality is never as cute. Insane deadlines are insane.

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There are two extremes to this. To some, fandom is for enjoyment. As long as you enjoy it, you can produce whatever the hell you want, even if it's considered garbage to most people. To others, fandom can be a great opportunity to learn things that you'd never learn in your everyday life.

The thing to keep in mind is to not force your idea of what fandom should be onto other people and accept the fact that some don't look at fandom the way you do. If you're in it just for entertainment, then be prepared that you might be bashed for being shallow, not constructive, or unwilling to improve. Because you're only here to enjoy yourself, you should either not take such comments personally or even whine about being bashed, or, simply not share your work with others at all. If you don't want people to badmouth your work, the only way to shut them up is to not share them in the first place. If you're in fandom to educate yourself and others, don't expect everyone to follow suit. Advice, lessons, deep analysis, lengthy background information are appreciated but it's up to others to decide whether to take them or not.

That said, I prefer a happy medium. I won't change my major for fandom, but I won't use the excuse of fandom being merely a hobby to produce pure crap that never gets any better either. You won't get very far in life if you flat out refuse to learn unless you were forced to.

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I'm not sure how you can tell China's absence is deliberately planned by the artist. I'm Chinese but I'm not bothered by it unless every single picture the artist draws includes every characterized country in Hetalia and China never, ever shows up in any of them.

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[(Anonymous)]

At least from what I can see of this person's Pixiv account, no, China never EVER shows up.

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[aeternitasbeach.livejournal.com]

OH GOD, I CAN'T UNSEE IT.

he'd be much better than this dude in the IGN spoof: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkBnZ_VaFSI

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[greeneyedlady.livejournal.com]

114. Splendidly put.

124. Not just slash but also high profile het pairings. In Eyeshield 21 fandom (a pretty small fandom), a poorly written Hiruma/Mamori fanfiction will get more reviews and attention than a well-written fic about a "lesser" couple. Sometimes I wonder what kind of attention my Bleach stories would get if I wrote about Ichigo and Rukia instead of Aizen and Momo. But I am not going to let popularity influence what I write.

[militarypenguin.livejournal.com]

105. Dude, I think I'm the only person who didn't think E.T. was scary.

...I thought he was cute. Then again, I also thought the baby from Eraserhead was cute...

152. The fandom has been annoying the hell out of me lately too, but every fandom I've been in (with the possible exception of Venture Brothers) has annoyed me one way or another.

[greeneyedlady.livejournal.com]

W-what is that in your icon? O_O

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[atelierlune.livejournal.com]

113. Hooray for Mr. Fox!

134. I am intrigued by your ideas and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.

139. I don't understand. Doesn't the cognitive dissonance hurt?

147. It's ok to be wrong sometimes. It's definitely not to say that you couldn't have found that lulzy badfic that you were looking for; you just got lucky. Or unlucky, depending on how you look at it. It's ok to be wrong sometimes.

[stupendous.livejournal.com]

toobig4. I don't know about fics or comms, but there's fanart up the wazoo for them. It's actually a popular pairing.