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⌈ Secret Post #5644 ⌋

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Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Name the fandom. And repeats, etc.

(If you think something in this thread is a troll, please ignore it! Conversation is fine, but OT wank makes stuff harder to keep track of in this thread. Thanks.)

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01. https://i.imgur.com/4r8idYe.jpg

[(Anonymous)]

I think that makes a lot of sense! It's the same kind of impulse that made us read episode recaps and reviews back in the day - it's interesting to see what other people think and feel about what you've watched.

The problem with reaction videos, for me, is that it's just really hard to find good ones. Most of them are either way too schticky and faked, or they just don't have any interesting insight.

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I'm perplexed by 'reacts' to be honest. I mean, if they don't enjoy something you enjoy, do you get annoyed? I don't know why I would want to watch someone else watch something, but maybe I am just missing something.

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02. https://i.imgur.com/DVpbp2k.jpg

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There are some WIPs that just never leave you.

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I felt this inside, OP

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Pouring one out for Rain Dogs, the Star Trek AOS AU where McCoy is a werewolf-vampire. I think of that fic once a goddamn month.

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Pours one out for Ephemeron and Adult Supervision. The Starker fandom doesn't have a lot of really excellent longfics, and these two were so good I've never fully gotten over their abandonment.

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Another phantom fan here and holy shit, I remember this one! I forget the title, and I don't remember the site it was hosted on, but I remember enjoying it. Not as much as you, but I'm sorry you never heard back from the author or found out how it ended.

My favorite abandoned fic was one posted to ff.net set in the 1970s with I think dirtbag punk rocker Erik, sensible Muslim friend Nadir whose parents took him in, and middle class(?) Christine that maybe had a Scottish Erik that pre-dated the 2004 movie, before the idea of Scottish Erik made me want to punch things.

I think Christine worked as a cashier or something. I remember Christine being surprised that Erik liked Elton John, heh. And I don't know if it's still up anywhere. With such an old fandom there are tons of awesome fics that disappeared over the years.

I don't know if it would hold up to a reread, since I remember Erik being woobified in the extreme and I'm not a huge fan of massive woobie whump fic anymore, but there was a trilogy that maybe originated in a print zine with the now standard "Christine returns to Erik post ALW musical" plot that I remember really enjoying at the time. It was "Erik didn't even mean or manage to kill Piangi" levels of woobie, one of the stories was called Dénouement, and I don't think it's online anymore. I found a lot of fics through the Michael Crawford Phantom Movie Campaign site, and that one was very definitely based on him.

I don't know that there were ever any massive PotO fic archives; I remember a few smallish ones on geocities and angelfire and so on, but I really miss the Phantomoftheopera.com forum that was owned by the literal BNF who'd changed her name to Christine Daaé. But then I miss forums, full stop.

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Your feelings are valid, OP. I was considered an essential worker and really, really hated it. It felt like everyone else got to enjoy doing nothing while getting extra unemployment while I was stuck doing more work for the same amount of money while having to be on-call outside my regular work hours. I wanted to work on my WIPs and learn to play guitar and get through my TBR pile like everyone else was doing, but I had zero energy for anything once I was finally done for the day. As much as I hate my commute, I’m happy to be back working in person because I’ve gotten my work/life balance sorted again and can actually devote my free time to my hobbies.

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I think that's totally reasonable and understandable, OP.

One of the things about modern work is that the vast majority of people don't get to decide for themselves how they want to navigate the trade-off between the amount of money they get for their work and the amount of time they get to themselves. I suspect there are quite a lot of people who, if offered the choice of making a little less money but working significantly fewer hours, would make that choice. Because there are all kinds of things outside of work that people want to do, whether it's Minecraft ad Kingdom Hearts, or whatever else. It's just that our society is largely not set up to allow for that. Well, here was this big epochal moment where that was actually a reality - but you didn't get the chance to make the choice for yourself. It sucks! Just because it could have been worse, that doesn't mean you can't wish it had been better.

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I mean...both can be true. It can be a relationship that started one way and ends another.

Of course, you're welcome to like and not like whatever you want but...is that it?

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From what I've heard Bill Office is a massive creeper himself though.

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Well shit. Thank you, OP. I was on the fence about First Kill, but I'm always interested in fictional interpretations of Lilith, so this means I'll finish it.

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Dating myself here, but Jurassic Park is the first movie I ever saw in theaters. The franchise as a whole means a lot to me. I don't care if they're "good movies" or not.

I enjoyed Dominion. Not sure I'd say it's my favorite of the movies after the first one, but it was enjoyable.


Though I gotta wonder, anyone else feel like that was supposed to be The End of It? I'll be very surprised if there's another movie after this.

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I was under the impression that that was the right way to do it, lol

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Something good today

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Share something nice/good today. Or something you're grateful for. Or a small bit of the day that's made it a little less bleak if it's been another rough one.

For me, the weather's been beautiful and I've been able to see people I love and care about today. So, grateful for both of those things.

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Games thread!

Venus In Furs book download at Project Gutenberg

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I mentioned that Venus In Furs was one of the books I was reading a few weeks ago. Someone commented that I should let them know how it was. Haven't finished reading it, but that person (and everyone else) can download it at this link below and read for free, or just read the book online in HTML.

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6852