[ SECRET POST #5791 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5791 ⌋

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


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Notes:

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 ].
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Comments

[(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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As a teenager myself in this current era of fandom, its places like here where I actually feel safe to express my interests in fiction without fear of being harassed. When I was 14 fandom was really my only thing keeping me happy, and when the puritanism started becoming the new trend, I was constantly bullying myself for what i was interested in and thinking that it made me a terrible person.