[ SECRET POST #5559 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5559 ⌋

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


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02.
[Adventure Time]


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03.
[Undertale]


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04.
[Black Widow]


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05.
[The Lost Tomb]


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06.
[Star Trek: Picard]


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07.
[The Mystic Nine]
















Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 46 secrets from Secret Submission Post #796.
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

[(Anonymous)]

Health, money and access can make all of that impossible for some people you know.

[(Anonymous)]

da

The number of people who are able to access fandom to an unhealthy degree but are absolutely and completely incapable of doing anything else as a distraction or way to diversify their interests is shockingly low.

[(Anonymous)]

Was gonna say, if they have the time and resources to get unhealthily invested in fandom, they shouldn't have any problem using that same time/resources towards something else.

[(Anonymous)]

No, actually, it's not. Chronic illness means I have the energy to sit on my phone wasting Mt life but pretty much nothing else. The illness I have is alarmingly common.

[(Anonymous)]

sorry to hear that but like

there are other things you can do while sitting quietly in a chair that aren't just obsessively refreshing social media feeds

[(Anonymous)]

this. i have chronic health issues too so i get it but there are about a million things you can do on your phone/computer that aren't fandom. find some games you like. download duolingo and learn another language. you can get kindle for your phone and there are all sorts of free/super cheap books for it. there are also all sorts of podcasts, documentaries, audiobooks, etc. available for free online.

[(Anonymous)]

They were examples, not the only possible options.

On-line jigsaw puzzle groups. Colouring books. Gardens. Breadbaking. Learning a language on Duolingo.

[(Anonymous)]

Jesus christ. Why is it that, whenever anyone in fandom tries giving even the most generic, innocuous advice, someone comes along and points out that ACTUALLY THIS ADVICE MAY BE COMPLETELY IMPOSSIBLE FOR SOME PEOPLE AND YOU'RE PROBABLY CLASSIST AND ABLIST FOR EVEN SUGGESTING THAT THINGS COULD EVER IMPROVE IN SOMEONE'S LIFE.

OP asked for advice. "Get interests outside of fandom" is good advice. If a specific activities or hobby is inappropriate for them because of their health or financial access to it, they should— get this— choose activities that are appropriate for them, based on their own knowledge of their life circumstances.

[(Anonymous)]

NAYRT - Yeah, I feel you on this one. I've been poor through periods of my life, and I still feel like there's something a bit toxically defeatist about AYRT's response. If the original anon had suggests a bunch of specific activities that were on the pricy side (Learn to ski! Take up welding! Take a university class in something that sounds cool!) that would be different, but they didn't. Is it more difficult to build hobbies and interests when you're poor? Absolutely! It's WAY harder, and there's nothing fair about that. But unfortunately, the injustice of it doesn't create an alternative path.

[(Anonymous)]

DA

+1 to you and ayrt

[(Anonymous)]

Barista, checking the name on the paper cup: "Jennifer, your order is ready!"

This person, marching up to the counter: "Woooow, excuse me?! Not all of us here are Jennifer, you know!"

[(Anonymous)]

Lol!

[(Anonymous)]

Thank you.

[(Anonymous)]

OP The true irony of your comment being that the AYRT is in fact the OP.

[(Anonymous)]

How is it irony if you didn't actually mention any of that in your secret? Asking for what to do without any additional info and then being all petulant when you don't get any suggestions that can help you personally is kinda dumb and just makes you sound like you didn't actually want any suggestions in the first place.