[ SECRET POST #6000 ]

[case]

⌈ Secret Post #6000 ⌋

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


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Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 45 secrets from Secret Submission Post #858.
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Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[case]

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.)

[(Anonymous)]

Congrats on 6000 posts!!!
Cheers to you, Case!

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01. https://i.imgur.com/9qE6w41.png

[feotakahari]

I’ve never learned how to make a fanvid, but I find so many songs that I would use for a fanvid. For instance, this just goes with Persona 5: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sV8xToqlA4M

[kaishi]

I'm the same. I don't think I've personally related to a song since I was in high school. My current collection are either bangers, fandom related, or both. I just recently got video editing software and can finally realize my dream of making fanvids.

[greghousesgf]

change the names and I could have written this.

[(Anonymous)]

This is so relatable it's funny. You have just describe my relationship with like a third of the songs in my library, lol.

It's like:

Songs I connect to my OTPs.
Songs I connect to my blorbos.
Songs I have mental fanvids for.
Songs I discovered through an actual fanvid someone made.

The last couple of months I've been suffering a bit of musical whiplash, because a lot of the songs I associate with my main OTP of the last four years are pop-ish, and upbeat, and sort of swooningly romantic. I mean, Bad Liar by Selena Gomez and I Wanna Be With You by Mandy Moore are on my Spotify mix for that ship, to give examples. So for several years there was a marked uptick in how much upbeat pop and "girly" pining songs I listened to.

Then, early this year, I got into a ship comprised of two fucked-up little toxic antagonist weirdos, and since then my music listening tendencies have swung hard towards songs about being toxic, kinky, and fucked-up. The shift has been pretty jarring. XD I actually had to make the active choice to listen to other stuff for a while because playing my Toxic, Kinky, And Fucked-Up playlist on repeat wasn't the best for my mental health, lol.

[(Anonymous)]

I could have written a secret like this lmao

All those songs that mean so much to me...most times I'm feeling my feelings over fanfics I wrote

Thank you secret maker!

[(Anonymous)]

I forgot I made this secret submission to your thread and was surprised to see Ro James here XD

+1

[a_phoenixdragon]

Oh yeah...super relatable, OP! I also connect songs to pairings and fics I've written (posted and not) and have whole LISTS devoted to pairings. :D

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[(Anonymous)]

That's so annoying. At least a little bit to guide the player is good. You don't need Tolkien levels of world building, but a bit of backstory is always helpful and good for context.

What are these games like?

SA

[a_phoenixdragon]

Right?! I mean, worldbuilding and character-arcs are half the reason I play!

And yeah, not loving the 'tutorials?! wassat!?' ugh. Tutorials and hints at WTF is going on is kinda important.

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[(Anonymous)]

That's because a lot of the canon queer characters are shit, sorry.

Like ones who exist just to be a walking Very Special Episode, or are written by cishet people who have no idea what LGBT people are actually like and think "is gay" or "is trans" is a personality trait.

Or because they end up getting fucked over down the line by writers who either don't know what they're doing or don't care.

See: Star Trek Discovery's gay doctor who immediately got his neck broken, then came back, then spent the entire subsequent series angsting about it and not getting to be happy with his husband because he got killed off for no reason after Star Trek adamantly refusing for decades to properly acknowledge gay people.

[(Anonymous)]

I get wanting more recognition of canon queer characters, but sometimes characters who don't have a textually explicit canon sexuality wind up being the ones that people relate to more.

I have one fandom where there are textually canonically gay characters that... I can relate to a little bit, and I really appreciate seeing the way they have two different stories and experiences, but I find both of them less interesting than an older man who FEELS gay to me, and who, if so, has a totally different set of life experiences that I can relate to more deeply! And, between those, a character who's INTENSELY relatable to me on pretty much every level, and of course I do think he's gay, and that makes him more relatable to me, just like headcanoning him as trans would make him more relatable to me. The canon gay characters are important to me, but they aren't personal to me. The story they tell is important to me, but it's not my story. (I mean I don't use Pride to hold up my guys at the expense of the canon gay characters, I celebrate canon queer characters when I get them, but, when I can't find canon gay characters that I relate to as deeply as I do to characters who are presented ambiguously/not given any romantic interests whatsoever, I mean... I can celebrate what canon gave me, but what I make for myself based on who speaks to ME is who I'm going to actually spend my time writing about all year round)


Neurodivergent characters... tbh, nine times out of ten, a character who is clearly autistic but the creator didn't have a label for is relatable on a level that a white boy who loves trains isn't? The characters who get labeled are STILL too often written as stereotypes, not as people-- meanwhile there are so many characters who are CLEARLY ND but sometimes they were written at a time when different diagnostic criteria and labels were in use, or if you read older stuff, when there WASN'T one, and they're fleshed out and interesting and easy to connect to. And it doesn't mean I don't appreciate some canon ND characters-- sometimes just for being a stepping stone on the journey to getting ones who are real and well-written.

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[starfleetbrat]

I would watch that. Looved Catweazle growing up.

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[(Anonymous)]

WoT book fan here and this is an extremely valid and correct way to watch the series, yes absolutely

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[(Anonymous)]

I think it's especially ironic considering she herself thinks she can pull off the the youthful dainty fairy hanfu look. Like, look at yourself before you criticise other people for their looks.

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[(Anonymous)]

Thank you for making my secret! It looks great :)

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Last book series you read and enjoyed

[(Anonymous)]

Sometimes I want standalone stories, but sometimes it's really fun to get fully immersed in a series and just keep reading and exploring the world.

If you haven't read any good series lately, maybe a favorite you revisit?

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