[ SECRET POST #815 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #815 ⌋

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

101.
[Weird Al Yankovic and Stephen Colbert]


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[Yu-Gi-Oh]


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108.
[Rachael Maddow]


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[The Office]


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[Phantom of the Opera]


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[previously linked wrong]


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[hunter s. thompson]


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[Hotel Babylon]


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[jake hurwitz]


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[but why not the men?]


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[Naruto]


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[Naruto]


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[Jade Goody]


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[previously linked wrong]


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[High School Musical]



Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 11 pages, 275 secrets from Secret Submission Post #116.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 1 2 3 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 1 2 - too big ], [ 1 2 3 4 - repeat ], [ 1 2 - doing it wrong ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[velvet-mace.livejournal.com]

109) Yeah, borrowed humor, unless it's being treated as a meme, kills a writers credibility. Credit is always good.

116) Face/Palm. Even though you managed to dodge the exam bombing bullet, you clearly failed the "am I being a grown up" test. You nearly blew several thousand dollars worth of schooling on a flipping daydream -- and it doesn't bother you? Maybe you need to quit college until you can get out of the high school slacker mindset.

117) I like fics better than classics as well -- and I was an English Teacher (before I became a SAHM). Brain candy or brain brussel sprouts... it's not a hard decision!

125) Guilting people into "liking" characters doesn't work. Either they appeal or they don't -- or they appeal in the canon but the fan just isn't particularly interested in the fanfic or discussions of that character. But regardless, it's emotional, not intellectual, and it's not something someone should feel ashamed about. I mean, fuck it, this is supposed to be entertainment not some moral litmus test.

135) If it's truly a temporary thing, you can make a filter and put all the people who you are reasonably assured aren't going to be posting about this on their journal on it, then only look at that filter for a while.

146) It doesn't say anything about you.

159) Ya know, it's not an either-or. It's completely possible to have a life, and have fandom as something to fill up the hours when you aren't busy with better things.

162) Don't write or read porn or talk about it. Most fics are rated one way or another, it's not that hard to avoid it.

Oh wait, what you are really saying is that you want other people to stop reading and writing the stuff that interests them and pay more attention to you. That's a whole lot of tough. Write something that people want to read and they'll read you. Write boring crap and they'll ignore you. That's always been the rule of writing. Doesn't need to be porn, just exciting.

OP 162

[(Anonymous)]

That is not at all what I am saying. I do not care if others like smutfic and what have you, I normally ignore it, but I am simply finding it difficult to do so with the focus of the fandom seems to keep centering more and more on porn and less and less on actual topics of discussion.

Way to put words in my mouth.

Re: OP 162

[velvet-mace.livejournal.com]

You seem to think that fandom is a zero sum game. For people to have porn, they have to give up writing about other things. It doesn't work that way. If you took away all the pron, not a single meta post or gen fic would be generated. If anything fandom brings people in with the porn and they stay to read the gen and meta.

You want more meta and gen -- you gotta produce it. Simple as that. You trend set. I've had friends who've trendsetted things in fandom, hell, I've done a bit of trendsetting myself (though I'm generally too flighty with my interest to really do much of that). It's not hard. You just bring your enthusiasm and post some decent content.

[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

I mean, fuck it, this is supposed to be entertainment not some moral litmus test.

YOU WIN.

116.

[(Anonymous)]

i hardly think failing exams means blowing several thousand dollars. i had decent enough grades in the class where failing wouldn't have mattered, and if you look back at the secret i said "almost."
and how does quitting college go against the anti-slacker mindset? not really sure how those are opposites, because they sound similar to me.

Re: 116.

[velvet-mace.livejournal.com]

You can totally slack off in college. No one is going to stop you. But then you flunk out. And if you flunk out, you don't have a degree -- but you still have your college loans. And if you had a scholarship and your GPA falls below a certain point, you can lose it, and then you'll have to pay thousands more to complete your education. In any case, flunking your exams means you'll have to take the class over again, which may mean adding another year of college on before getting your degree.

It costs money to fail in college. Lots of money. Even a state college is several thousand a year. Maybe the OP is having her parents pick up the bill, but it still comes down to the fact that she's not taking college seriously enough to be in it.

Go work for a few years, mature a little bit. Come back. That's what a lot of people who just aren't ready to make the transition from high school to collage do. It's a whole lot cheaper than futzing about on campus in a daze, getting no where towards your degree fast.

Re: 116.

[clau019.livejournal.com]

Go work for a few years, mature a little bit. Come back.

It's funny you say that, I took a year off before starting University (I was kinda forced to, I had to take care of a very ill relative and couldn't keep up with both) and I found later that it was much easier to focus on my studies than it would have been if I'd started right after high school. I can usually tell the difference between people that took a couple of years to do other things, they tend to be more serious about their studies. Not to say that it's the same situation for everyone, of course.

Re: 116.

[velvet-mace.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I noticed the same thing, too. I wonder if it's the break from the routine of classwork that kind of wakes people out of the "school is normal" rut. When you go back after a break you really have a better understanding of what your choices are, and that college really isn't a given.

College really is what you make of it. You can grind through with a grade and but still not learn anything and not actually forward yourself towards a career if you aren't careful.