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⌈ Secret Post #6044 ⌋

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Life Goals

[(Anonymous)]

What are some goals you have? Big or little.

Re: Life Goals

[philstar22]

New job. Someday hope to work for a nonprofit. But right now I just want to start looking for new jobs in November. I have two big hearings in October that I want to see through, but I really need a change.

Get better at self care. Actually take the time for it.

Re: Life Goals

[randomdrops]

Big goal: I would like to own a house and some land. At this point I have very big doubts it will happen, but I still like to dream.

Little goal: get back to things I love like hiking, camping, more gardening. I've been in a pretty deep depression for the last few years and am just now looking around and realizing all the hobbies I stopped doing that used to be a part of my life and brought me joy. So. Slowly trying to add them back into my routines.

Even smaller goal: get the photos I took edited and posted to my journal here.

Re: Life Goals

[(Anonymous)]

Get my life organized and … procrastinate less. Do more meaningful things. At this point everything feels like a big challenge so yeah :(

Re: Life Goals

[(Anonymous)]

To complete a really ambitious photo portrait project; I do not have much experience with portrait photography

Re: Life Goals

[(Anonymous)]

Tell me more....what's so ambitious about it? Why are you doing it if you don't have much experience? Did it come to you one night in a dream and now you have a driving passion to fulfill that dream prophecy?!

Re: Life Goals

[kaijinscendre]

Big: Go on a trip by myself (how do not wealthy people afford hotels?), find a new remote job.

Little: Finish BOTW, finish my crochet bear before Christmas.

Re: Life Goals

[(Anonymous)]

How's the narwhal doing?

Re: Life Goals

[(Anonymous)]

Where do you want to go on your trip? Let fandom secrets help plan it for you!

As a general answer to your question, I've found airbnbs a lot more affordable than hotels. Plus they mostly have kitchens so you can save more money by preparing some/all of your own meals on your trip. And parking is usually included.

Re: Life Goals

[(Anonymous)]

I have two big goals: GTFO of the USA and own a house, preferably with a decent sized bit of land. Gotta have money for both, so neither is ever gonna happen.

Small goal: get the kitty litter furniture/side table I ordered put together. It's been sitting in the box my living room for a week and the cats are getting upset.

Re: Life Goals

[(Anonymous)]

Finding a job that I will actually like. Putting together a family reunion for my Mom's side of the family when we all live hundreds of miles apart and haven't seen each other in years which also includes finding a site for that reunion.

Re: Life Goals

[(Anonymous)]

Managing my anxiety better.

Re: Life Goals

[(Anonymous)]

I want to fill my second half of the year journal without missing days! I'd also like to be better prepared for next year's convention than I've been for this one, it's just been so hard to get a move on this year with making yarn tails.

Re: Life Goals

[(Anonymous)]

I just want to be happy. I want a purpose. I had to drop out of college this term and accept that I cannot work in my dream career field because of my health. So I guess my goal is to find something to carry me through until I find a new long term goal.

Re: Life Goals

[(Anonymous)]

Oof that's really hard nonny. I was actually in your exact place many years ago, it's not a fun phase. I wish you luck in figuring it all out.

Re: Life Goals

[(Anonymous)]

to have sex with a lovely man! that'd be nice.

Get that thought out of your head!

[(Anonymous)]

Do you have a weird idea or paranoid concern that won't leave you alone? Don't want to tell your brickspace peeps because it's weird or unsettling? Dump it here and run away into the night!

I'll start! Do you think that the metaphorical dead horse you're not supposed to beat is the same one that you couldn't make drink?

Re: Get that thought out of your head!

[(Anonymous)]

Not paranoid, just a weird shower thought I have nowhere to share...

The "Who" in Doctor Who is the same as the "Hello" in Hello Kitty.

Re: Get that thought out of your head!

[(Anonymous)]

This is true! It's also ironic, since the bands The Who and Hello have very little in common.

Re: Get that thought out of your head!

[(Anonymous)]

Why oh why have I had the Roadrunner theme song stuck in my head for a week? I haven't even listened to it or watched the show at all recently. It is just randomly stuck in my head.

Re: Get that thought out of your head!

[(Anonymous)]

Yes I have, thankfully the medication I am given keeps my paranoia down to functional levels though. I have gone full tinfoil over the windows and tearing the smoke detectors apart for bugs in the past though. It ruined my life. It wasn't fun or funny. Not a joking matter, and maybe you should think twice about this sort of joke in future.

Re: Get that thought out of your head!

[(Anonymous)]

I'm always low-key worried that I'm much louder than I think I am and my neighbors can hear everything I do.

Re: Get that thought out of your head!

[(Anonymous)]

I'm worried I'm falling out of love with my one meat-space hobby. I can't tell anyone because I made all my friends through this hobby. I'm in my 30s and scared to start all over but I don't know if I'm still enjoying it or just keeping up through inertia.

non-con & transphobia, maybe?

[(Anonymous)]

So, I really like this trope where a strong male character ends up with a VJ and ends up getting hurt and non-conned. I've been asked here if it's just a kink for trans men, and I don't think so? Because part of the appeal is that the strong male character has never had their strength or their maleness questioned. I feel like like trans men have pretty much had to discover their maleness for their own, and had to fight to get it legitimized, but the kind of strong male characters I'm thinking of have never had their masculinity or their strength questioned.

Note: When I say strong male characters, it's the characters who are > 80% of the time the tops in ships.

I feel like when you have those super strong characters that both cañon and fandom treat as unquestionably dominant, it's almost a mindscrew if they're portrayed as soft or unsure. In some ways, the reason I craft VJs onto these characters is just because I want them to bottom, and I'm not into butt stuff. But depending on the verse, a male character might undergo a crisis of self if they put too much stock into fitting society's idea of masculinity, which includes having a huge D.

And then you have the non-con. Like I said, even fandom treats having these characters bottom or suffer non-con is rare, so it's almost like a forbidden fruit to all of us. If Link or Zelda was in that soft, vulnerable position, you'd say ok, I saw that coming. But if someone wrote soft, vulnerable, post-rape Ganondorf? The average fan probably wouldn't even know how to react to that. There'd probably be some uncomfortable laughter, or you (general) would assume the writer had just lost their mind, or you'd wonder if this was just some pod person with Ganondorf's name. The average fan would barely be able to fathom it. It's almost forbidden in a way, to portray a character with that much raw dominance and strength as vulnerable and traumatized and needing protection. And that's why I'm so fascinated by it.

And from the strong character's perspective, being powerful is probably baked into their identity at that point. Being SA'd is, wrongly, seen as a thing that happens to weak and/or feminine characters. Being traumatized, that doesn't happen to characters like that. They would probably have to deeply rethink who they are on a fundamental level. For characters who are that powerful for that long, it would probably be almost like losing a limb. Like, they could probably fathom losing to the hero in a legendary battle, but being soft and vulnerable and unable to protect yourself? It would be unthinkable. And much like fandom wouldn't assume that you were just writing a pod person with the character's name, the character themselves might wonder if they're even still really themselves.

I don't know, I just think it's a neat idea.