[ SECRET POST #5827 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5827 ⌋

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Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 32 secrets from Secret Submission Post #834.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Politics in Arizona

[(Anonymous)]

We get our fair share of bad and weird in politics here in Arizona, maybe especially in regard to our governors, but I cannot for the life of me figure out what Kari Lake is trying to accomplish. I used to watch her (she was a local news anchor) and she never struck then me as obtuse or irrational, but then her campaign for governor was yikes and now she's all in on supposed election fraud since she lost. It's really bizarre how invested she is in this narrative where everyone is conspiring against her and I'm kind of beginning to wonder if she needs help.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/kari-lake-vows-to-burn-it-to-the-ground-as-a-judge-considers-her-election-lawsuit/ar-AA15s5z9?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=e004d2af3ff5402fba9a15f560a9281a

Re: Politics in Arizona

[(Anonymous)]

What's weird? She is working the Republican Candidate to Pundit pipeline. Soon she'll be making bank at various conservative conferences and news groups.

Re: Politics in Arizona

[(Anonymous)]

She is a deranged semi-fascist. That's the whole explanation.

Re: Politics in Arizona

[(Anonymous)]

$$$$$

Before she was elected, MTG was a crossfit trainer. Now she's worth millions in stolen taxpayer funds and bribes.

What computer programs do you most often use?

[(Anonymous)]

I sure have gotten a lot of mileage out of Scrivener.

Re: What computer programs do you most often use?

[philstar22]

Google chrome, followed by youtube to mp3, imazing, kindle, word, adobe reader, and mediahuman audio converter.

Re: What computer programs do you most often use?

[(Anonymous)]

Notepad.

I am addicted to Notepad.

Re: What computer programs do you most often use?

[pantswarrior]

After web browsers, Notepad. I do most of my coding in Notepad, I do all of my writing in Notepad, I jot down important info on phone calls in Notepad (before putting it in my calendar or whatnot).

My old and not-sure-if-actually-legit Photoshop CS2 probably comes next. I should probably get a different graphics program if I want to get back into digitally coloring my art. :P

Re: What computer programs do you most often use?

[(Anonymous)]

Scrivener and Snip & Sketch.

Re: What computer programs do you most often use?

[(Anonymous)]

Firefox, Notes (a better version of Notepad), Excel, and occasionally Word.

Re: What computer programs do you most often use?

[(Anonymous)]

Firefox, Word, Notepad... CSP and Steam?

Re: What computer programs do you most often use?

[(Anonymous)]

Embrillance - I design machine embroidery files.

Re: What computer programs do you most often use?

[(Anonymous)]

A browser, obv. I use Chrome. I have been hearing some talk lately about switching to Firefox. Something about data collection and Firefox not doing it? Is that a thing? Should I switch?

WPS Office, because I refuse to pay for Microsoft Word

The Photos app. I don’t know what to call it beyond that. It’s literally just the app that allows me to open and view images on my desktop?

GIMP, because I don’t do nearly enough image-based stuff to justify paying for Photoshop, plus I have literally never used Photoshop and therefore would have no idea how it worked.

Re: What computer programs do you most often use?

[(Anonymous)]

I am a designer, so adobe programs mostly. Sadly this open sources soft doesn't cut it.
And opera I guess, right now I am using it

Re: What computer programs do you most often use?

[(Anonymous)]

I would say abou 90% of my time is split between Edge (for Internet), Samsung Notes (for digital planning - the kind where you mark up a PDF planner by hand) and Obsidian (for writing and note-taking).

Re: What computer programs do you most often use?

[(Anonymous)]

Discord, Spotify, Brave (web browser), Steam, Acrobat Reader/Edge for PDFs, qBitTorrent, Photoshop, Illustrator, Clip Studio Paint, After Effects. I'm slowly but surely teaching myself Figma too.

(there's a sad correlation between working in graphic design and piracy, thank you so much adobe)

Re: What computer programs do you most often use?

[(Anonymous)]

Firefox, Tor, qtorrent, VLC media and anki.

Re: What computer programs do you most often use?

[(Anonymous)]

Calibre is just -chef's kiss-

For compiling visual reference, PureRef is just incredible. I also use a screencapping tool called Lightscreen nearly every day.

[(Anonymous)]

Why does the squickiest porn seem to have the most engaging story? This is the third time I've wound up attached to the plot and characters of something I only clicked on because my fandom is tiny and content is content. This one is so horrifying — when it's supposed to be — that I don't even dare bookmark it. And yet I want so much more of it.

[(Anonymous)]

Is it fetish porn? Part of what might make it good is because a lot of fetishists are *very* passionate about their fetish - you may be picking up on their enthusiasm for the subject matter through their writing. There's a degree of skill involved with writing convincing fetish material too; if you can write decent porn, chances are you can write decent plot.

[rosehiptea]

I once read an entire original soft vore story because the writing was just that good. It wasn’t horrifying content but it was way out of my usual comfort area.

[(Anonymous)]

I've read some age-play stuff that was just that good. It's got me thinking, am I into this? No. I'm not. But when a fic is firing on all cylinders I'm enthralled.

Old secrets/comments thread.

[(Anonymous)]

Is it okay if I make one?

Social media platforms?

[(Anonymous)]

Yesterday's talk on "which social media platforms do you use for fandom" had some detailed replies that made me wonder what's it like for everyone.

Mastodon and Pillowfort are 100% unknown beasts to me. Tiktok is yet another beast for me - apparently kids use that for fandom too. (Man I remember when Amino and Wattpad were the "mysterious websites/apps kids have been using for fandom" ... just how fast the night changes.) I have been on Discord before but never for fandom per se (only for gaming with a small group of friends, having classes surprisingly, and a translation group I was a part of). Sometimes I look through "Discord community directories" and some sound good but randomly joining what seems like a tight-knit group of 15 fans of a thing doesn't sound like the best idea, and it's weird to auntie me that there would be 1000 communities with 15 fans of a thing instead of 10 communities with 1500 fans.
It's a different logic from... how we used to fandom? (ugh I feel like I am not making much sense here.) But the logic has been "different" for a while, since I grew up on forums and then LJ (which was different but at least there were communities) and I still don't quite get using like Tumblr or Twitter for making fandom friends. How do people even interact? Am I just that awkward? (answer: yes) (joke aside I do feel like there's an element I can't explain of "high school cliques" that doesn't work for ND me but LJ wasn't TOO different in that sense.) In the past decade I only made "friends" or "acquaintances" in Facebook communities, Lang-8 and oldschool forums. That's it. I never made a single long-lasting memorable acquaintance on Tumblr or Twitter, maybe because they feel a lot more impersonal and number ("engagement")-driven (or maybe because of the HS clique aspect to it) and how others do it is mysterious to me.

And so I have been wondering how everyone else does the fandom thing as of late.

For me, since those platforms (Tumblr/Twitter) aren't good for interacting it's:
1) squeeing in my locked Twitter account (some people I have never spoken to follow me and sometimes like what I reblog)
2) posting long-ass metas / headcanons / translations / snapshots on Tumblr and tagging them (some random strangers like that stuff sometimes)
3) well, commenting here I guess? And on reddit and YT as well.
4) the occasional fanfiction on AO3 or fanart on dA and website-making and so on.
basically.

Please forgive me for any typos and mispellings I am groggy and tired