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[ SECRET POST #5647 ]

⌈ Secret Post #5647 ⌋

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Inspired by today's Secret #6.

Increased representation and more general acceptance of LGBTQ+. That's about it. The rest of the world is a burning hellscape.

The HPV vaccine.

It's easy to forget how important and significant it is that so much media and art that would have been lost to time is available for free online. This is a very unique century and has the potential to be the most unique in our species' history.

On a more lighthearted note, a wealth of access to cheap and easy-to-use cosplay materials and tutorials. Even just like 6 or so years ago your options for buying EVA foam were basically "whatever floor mats you can find" and now you can order it in specialised stores in all sorts of thicknesses for your needs. If you go even further back, people had not even discovered EVA foam for armor and weapon crafting! You can buy beautiful colourful and pre-styled wigs for affordable prices too and colored contacts in more than just halloween options.
It's so great how accessible the hobby is now.

Right??? I was a cosplay guest at a convention earlier this year and there were people in the audience for my panels who weren't even alive when I started cosplaying. Their reactions to everything I said about how back in my day you had to sharpie-dye wigs and no you can't do your entire armor out of EVA because the Foamies sheets weren't larger than 12x18" were priceless. Wait'll next time I tell them about fiberglass and papier mache being the only options.

CHEAP! KANEKALON! WIGS! I think about this everyday!!

IMO there are a million incredibly good things that exists today that teenagers are lucky to have, but all of them have some cursed monkey's paw twist to them that makes it hard to say "oh, yeah, that's good"

Yeah, like "internet". I would have killed to have had internet as an isolated, nerdy, queer teenager...and then there's all the body image stuff and school bullies being able to get to you in your home and urgh. No.

+1 for increased LGBT+ rep. And the fact that there are schools that are actively trying to do stuff about bullies rather than mine who simply went ‘you’re the problem, fix it’.

The easy access to information and knowledge that's available online.

Modern medical technology and medicine, including things like the meningitis vaccine, the HPV vaccine and advanced treatments for things like HIV. Advanced surgical treatments for all kinds of conditions that weren't available even a few years ago.

Increased social acceptance of LGBTQ people, at least in my country, although there's also a contingent that wants to take that away.

Relatively widespread access to high speed internet.

Cheap anime boxsets.

And anime streaming too. The dreaded days of purchasing VHS tapes, pirating DVDs, P2P sharing...

This. I can own a whole season for the price I used to pay for one DVD (unless it’s Aniplex).

Seconding the LGBT comments, and the "cursed monkey's paw" comment.

On a more trivial note: Relatively easy access to just about any music you could want to get your ears on. I was 12 when Napster launched, so I didn't have to experience the pain of having 99.9% of music be inaccessible to me for long. But I had a couple of years of being interested in music and unable to access most of it--living in hope that one day a song I'd heard once and liked would come on the radio again. Saving up my money so I could finally listen to That One Song off of That One Album whenever I wanted.

If the internet vanished overnight (and somehow it didn't cause societal collapse), I'm pretty sure endless fanfiction and limitless music availability would be the things I missed most.

seconding a lot if things, especially the hpv vaccine, but like to add:
Sunscreen with high SPF, much better food regulations / less pollution (my dad told me the nearby river had hazard warnings not to get too close and Do Not Enter signs).
I hope to see some cancers completely vanishing in the next decades / turning from "death sentence" to "treatable" (like CLL turned managable with TKIs)

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