[ SECRET POST #6042 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6042 ⌋

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Name the fandom. And repeats, etc.

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01. https://i.imgur.com/TYYImy8.jpg

[(Anonymous)]

Different things affect different people in different ways.

Different things cause different kinds of anxiety in different people for different reasons.

Different people struggle with different tasks on different levels for different reasons.

Just because someone experiences anxiety at the idea of leaving a comment on a fic doesn't mean they experience anxiety at every IRL challenge that presents itself, and unless they say this is the case, there is no reason whatsoever to assume it does.

"Leaving comments on fic makes me anxious" doesn't mean "I am so riddled with anxiety I experience debilitating panic attacks every time I have to make a decision or step outside my front door". It means "leaving comments on fic makes me anxious".

[(Anonymous)]

While I may disagree with the overdiagnosing here, there is something to be said in that leaving comments used to be the base standard form of interaction and now there's like this social A.T. Field most people don't dare to break through. This isn't a callout to people who only leave likes\kudos\etc., I'm just wondering... what the hell happened in the past 15 years?

[(Anonymous)]

"I'm never quite sure what to think about people who..."

You can try this for a start: "Not everyone sees things through my eyes, and not everyone is in the same place as I am, at the same time I am, in various areas. And that's okay."

[(Anonymous)]

Not diagnosed with any sort of disorder here, but I sometimes get irrationally anxious about fairly trivial things. Sometimes it's like it is easier to focus my attention and anxiety on something small. Sometimes it's just something my mind gets caught on.

[(Anonymous)]

Ehhhhhh.

It's not that the anxiety is overwhelming. It's that there's anxiety and it often feels like there isn't enough positive reason to leave a comment such that it's worth overcoming that anxiety. Because often there's other comments that have said anything I wanted to say. And from what authors say, it seems like there's a lot of comments they hate or get no value from.

[(Anonymous)]

Ah, yes. Because your experience is The Only Truth™

People act almost like there are multiple kinds of anxiety disorders and all of them manifest differently depending on the person. But they’re just faking it because they’re too lazy to post comments on fic. You are the only person in all of fandom with an education and a career. Everyone else is lazy and ignorant.

[(Anonymous)]

Dude. It's an anxiety disorder. And it affects everyone differently. Just because you KNOW intellectually that the writer can't tell it was you, specifically, who left that comment, your brain WILL still make the unhappy juice and tell you that they hated everything and think you're trash for even bothering them and you should live in shame. If it could be reasoned out, it wouldn't be a disorder.

[(Anonymous)]

https://achewood.com/2007/02/02/title.html

[(Anonymous)]

The leap of logic there was a bit whoa--whoa calm down bro, that's really not how it is

Having said that, agreed that commenting on fics should be a lot more... low stakes than people (and I am thinking specifically of F!S people here - I don't assume everyone on AO3 is like this, but I guess some are...?) have it be. It should be just a silly message exchange "ohoho I like this thing you did there!" y'know lol.
Of course, sometimes people internalize rudeness because they were rude in the past. I always felt very excited whenever someone commented in my fanworks even if it was an apparently silly comment and always responded enthusiastically so maybe that's why I have zero anxiety. Fanwork is low stakes fun for me, period.
Some people nowadays take fandom too seriously though and I do have an issue with people who act like that (the toxic drama queens and so on)

Oh OP

[(Anonymous)]

All anxiety disorders are different. You absolutely do not understand how anxiety works of you honestly have no idea why commenting gives people anxiety. I'm pretty suspicious if your own anxiety, empathy, imagination, or all of the above.

[(Anonymous)]

1. I have a job that doesn't require me to leave feedback for strangers. Not that hard to find!

2. I do have to do some things that are hard for me, socially, at work. So I save those spoons for work and don't spend them on hobbies.

3. I don't encounter people like you at work.

[(Anonymous)]

I'd been employed full-time in job that involved responding to emails, phone calls, and in-person help requests from strangers for 3 years at the time that I nearly had a panic attack at my own birthday party about the possibility that I might upset people by blowing out the candles wrong.

I then proceeded to actually make it awkward by waiting too long because I was internally freaking out, and someone had to nudge me to do it.

TLDR: as people have said, brain disorders are fucking weird, you don't know what's going to set it off, different for everyone and different for the same person at different times, and Work Mode (or even just 'people are looking at me IRL' mode) is different. for comments, there's no one to nudge me.

I'm 98% anxiety free these days and I make an effort to comment pretty frequently, but I was a lurker for a long time. It was just easier. /shrug

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[(Anonymous)]

This is 100% how I feel about it, except I have a preference for Aztec.

Everything constantly focuses on sodding Roman/Greek/Norse, like ... do something else. Pick something different. Mesopotamian/Assyrian/Akkadian/Babylonian would be very cool, or Finnish, but I'd so love if something, just anything did something with the Aztec gods. There's just so little of it.

Maya and the Three touched on it (though mixed it heavily with the Mayan pantheon, which is also cool) but other than that? One book series I've found to satisfy that itch.

One.

Although that series is worth it, because I do enjoy the only Aztec god most people people know being an almost literal trashfire and abject asshole, I would like more.

The world is rich in mythology, yet everyone keeps going back to the tired ones.

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[(Anonymous)]

I really like the photo chosen for this secret. Thank you!

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[feotakahari]

Huh. I’ve seen more of making the asshole nice, rather than the other way around. (I think there was some OOC noncon in Yuri on Ice fics, but I wasn’t in that fandom.)

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Did you not watch Avengers: Age of Ultron?

[(Anonymous)]

In my subjective judgment, there were several Marvel movies Black Widow was better than. I have seen 16 Marvel movies and I have a ranking list, Black Widow is solidly in the middle for me. What did you find so bad about it?

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[(Anonymous)]

Okay then, What if Morse but with Superheroes then? Huh? Or Morse and Barbie?

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In your opinion which was the worst Marvel movie so far?

[(Anonymous)]

Inspired by #5.

I haven't seen them all but of the ones I've seen Age of Ultron and Infinity War are up there on the Worst list for me.

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