[ SECRET POST #5791 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5791 ⌋

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


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Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 49 secrets from Secret Submission Post #829.
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

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Name the fandom. And repeats, etc.

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01. https://i.imgur.com/XpkpJax.png

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, I learned a lot about my sexuality from fandom space discussions. I feel sad that teenagers don't have the same safe spaces like that anymore too.

I appreciate having a locked 18+ fandom discord to chat on, but idk about age-gating in general. I have mixed feelings, I suppose. I had LJ fandom friends in their mid teens when I was in my 30s, and it never used to be a problem, but the internet's a very different place now.

Also any time you mark an online space out as for people under 18, it risks attracting predators.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm not sure if I agree with the thesis here that fandom was once a safe space for teenagers to learn about their sexuality and is now a significantly less safe space for teenagers to learn about their sexuality

Not sure I agree with either part of it, to be honest; it seems to me that it wasn't necessarily safe in the first place, and it seems to me that a teenager who wanted to learn about their sexuality through fanfic would still be able to do so if they wanted to

IDK

[(Anonymous)]

Agreed on both points. I especially miss those "I am over 18" buttons. Let teens lie about their age all they want, if they're that determined to see the dirty stuff, but I really think those things made it much more clear whose fault it was if/when they got squicked.

[philstar22]

Yup. Considering I grew up with conservative parents in a fundamentalist community, everything I learned about sex I learned online, mostly from fandom and fanfic with a little porn thrown in there.

I did eventually get a sex talk with my parents, but that was senior year of high school and they didn't say anything I didn't already know.

[(Anonymous)]

I learned a lot from kink memes. Man, I miss kink memes.

[kallanda_lee]

I agree. But I also have to say: there were just less of us online. Now, every teen is online all the time. They bump into more (unwanted) sexual content, while back then you sort of had to go out and look for it. So I get that attitudes changes with that. I think fandom spaces in general were safer for that because they were more overseeable, and you had to put in some effort to get there. And much older people were even less likely to find it.

[(Anonymous)]

When I think back on my childhood growing up in the wild west internet I remember going through embarassing stuff, like reading "erect penis" or "masturbation" online and asking my parents what that was (man... the joys of being neurodivergent - no but the contexts were a little worse than this, no, not fanfic) things like that. And I was exposed to stuff like cybersex as well, and I would ask my parents things like "why did that guy ask my panties' color? what's the fun in that?". Thankfully my parents were comparatively okay with sexual content (if only because I cried too much whenever I was scolded for something I didn't get) but yeahhhh .........

However I do feel like it wasn't as bad as it is now. Back then you had to dig the porn content. It didn't load quickly, after all. There was no... what's the name of that youtube-like website for porn anyway? Whatever. For text, you had to click "I am over 18 and I consent". Neopets? It's full of censorship and you're not posting if you're under 13, kiddo. And I recall lots of anime websites had "anti-hentai" buttons (!). It wasn't impossible to find porn but you had to go after it I feel. Nowadays... sometimes I will be reading a vanilla manga and end up facing the weirdest porn ad in mangafox or what have you. It *feels* different. People share nudes too easily, and people spread nudes as a way to harm others too easily as well. (ahh normie stuff.) For chronological reasons there are more creepy geezers who are internet-literate. And so on. And so forth.

It does seem to be less safe for me nowadays, if only because I as an adult sometimes try to avoid the porn content but fail miserably. It's been too... normalized? This idea that the internet is not educational, rather it is for porn (really, it isn't. The internet is a great tool, actually. Geez) .

[(Anonymous)]

People who say "fandom has never been safe for that" or "fandom has always been bad" are like people who respond to "It's hot in this house right now" with "It's always been hot" and then you see the conversation is happening while the house is on fire.

[(Anonymous)]

I know people say that the internet has always been bad - but no way in hell would teen me had survived this era of being in an online fandom. Teen me in the early 2000s had Deviantart before it went to shit (and being in fandom groups on DA with moderators kept fetish artists out so there was that space in addition to being shit at art while having the chance to improve), Livejournal had separate communities that you had to be apart of rather than the stepping-on-each-others toes that you get with fandom spaces on Tumblr where anyone can waltz in and intentionally take things out of context for the worse - and on top of that, although official queer media sucked or was rare to find, fandom had shown me spaces that not only gave me an abundance of queer shipping I got into, but there wasn't this obsession with what is and isn't canon and what made it worthy to ship if it was indeed canon or 'okayed' by the creators of said media.
Essentially I had spaces where I could get fully absorbed in my interests because it would be with other people in the same boat. Whereas now - you'll get total strangers who will go through your blog and then try and cancel you because 'five years ago you liked a Hamilton modern AU fic = EVIL!'

I was flawed and a teenager that had body issues which lead me to finding about alternative sub cultures like goth/emo through fandoms (from fanmixes to meeting other fans via DA and LJ) that let me be as messy with my own style.
I'm 100% certain if I was a teen now with the perfection of Tiktok and all the other social media's warped view on purity and morality - I would have crumbled like a fragile cracker under the pressure of it all within a year.

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[(Anonymous)]

I'm interested in history regardless, but she is pretty cool.

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03. https://i.imgur.com/9Vsnb0a.jpg

[(Anonymous)]

That's loldorable!

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04. https://i.imgur.com/loASLnf.png

[(Anonymous)]

I have never seen this and my friends that love vampire films keep recommending this to me.

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05. https://i.imgur.com/uNHoyhi.jpg

[(Anonymous)]

Awwww. They're both real cute, but Hush Puppy is the cutest to me too, because I love dogs more than I love sheep. (Sorry, Sheep Anon, no offense intended!)

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[(Anonymous)]

fair and reasonable. sorry I can't offer you any help.

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[(Anonymous)]

Yes, I absolutely agree with you, OP.

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[(Anonymous)]

Embrace it and enjoy it, Nonny!

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[(Anonymous)]

100% with you there.

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Favorite live-action fairytale adaptions

[philstar22]

What are your favorite live-action adaptions of fairytales? Semi-inspired by the secret yesterday.

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