[ SECRET POST #6070 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6070 ⌋

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


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[Baldur's Gate 3]



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Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 56 secrets from Secret Submission Post #868.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

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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.)

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01. https://i.imgur.com/QIWASiw.jpeg

[(Anonymous)]

I believe you aren't from the US because only people outside the US who have no idea how fucking huge the US is, assume that you can easily drive anywhere to meet anyone who isn't already super close by lol

[(Anonymous)]

There is no such thing as an easy road trip in the US. Having lived most of my adult life in Europe, I moved to America to be close to my elderly parents a few years ago. I’m an hour’s drive away from them. Next weekend I’m going on holiday three states away. It’s a 17.5 hour drive and I will have to break it into two days. My holiday spot is just four hours beyond the closest major city to my house. In the U.K. I lived outside of an average market town and was less than 10 minutes to the high street or the out of town shopping centre.

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My fandom friends are an "easy roadtrip" of 15 hours driving time away. That's JUST driving time, which is not really feasible if you don't want to endanger yourself and others, so it's a very tiring two-day drive, one way. The U.S. is very large, and outside of bigger cities, no, you don't necessarily have bunches of cons and meet-ups. A lot of people are in the same boat as you - in the middle of nowhere, etc. etc.

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Easy road trip? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

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>easy road trip

I think you're thinking of the EU, anon. The US is too mcfuckin heug.

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quietly sits over here in the "willing to take a 2-5 hour road trip to any one of dozens of cons in this region" corner. yall, please calm down. what OP assumes is not as unreasonable as some of you are making it out to be. is it 15 hours from here to DragonCon? Of course, but DragonCon is also 75K people and thousands of dollars in hotel costs, people who go there make it a yearly vacation destination. That's not the every other weekend jaunt OP is talking about. If you live in the central midwest you can get to...quick count...30 not-tiny conventions from Minneapolis to Columbus over the course of the year in less than 6 hours' drive, depending on where you are. As big as GenCon and as small as Anime Iowa. I've done as many as 8 in one year without leaving a tri-state region. Which was a lot, but I was young and capable of packing hotel rooms to save mmoney.

We really do have it good in fandom terms. I get you, OP. I wish I could tell you that all the cons suck and people are weird but we know that's not true. The only sad reality is that we still tend to spend most of our fandom time online and don't have near as many fandom friends to go meet as we'd like to. And when you get older, even the ones across the city are too busy with kids and jobs to meet up at the local arcade bar. I guess that's just life everywhere.

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XD
This reminds me of a British manager I had who told me that he could drive through all of GB as a "road trip" in a day.
Meanwhile my lead at the time left for a 2 week vacation to drive through the Rocky Mountains west, making a short stop in Las Vegas to California (to Yosemite and then to San Francisco) and turn back around to come home.
He only traveled through 4...(maybe 5) states. LOL

The US is a HUGE country. Unfortunately, road tripping to a friend's place and then to a con is really hard to get done unless you or a friend happen to live in a place where a lot of cons happen (Cali, Nevada, Texas, Florida, Georgia, New York, Virginia, North Carolina, Illnois, New Jersey, Arizona being the ones I can think of at the top of my head).
Or you/your friends can travel.

Although, NGL, I do understand how lucky US fans are to have cons happen here. There are a lot.
But I do also know that it's pretty hard for poor fans in the US to participate. =( I can afford to travel and go to cons and be able to have fun now, but I don't really have any fandoms nor friends to go to cons to anymore.
But back when I was active in fandoms in my youth...it was really painful to see/hear friends talk about cons and events they attended. Feeling like those small cons were impossible dreams for me. I had no means to go.

I hope you can travel and go to a con and meet some friends one day, OP.

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There are online cons or online versions of in-person cons. Which is certainly not the same, but perhaps more helpful than Americans being angry about long drives.

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As someone who lives in the UK, I do agree that I get a bit jealous of all the Cons in America - especially when you get really specific ones that just would never happen here. There are conventions here, but no where near near the same amount.

Also getting merch through shipping is a pain. I don't even bother with getting fancrafts from Etsy unless its within the UK, because the shipping is ridiculous (I was contemplating buying stickers from a tiny fandom that just have nothing in terms of official merch - but getting a single sticker from America meant paying £15 for postage; and that doesn't include the potential additional if it gets caught by customs).

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Which country are you from, OP?

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I was into roadtrips when I was younger, but it takes 7 hours to get across the state of California and I’m just not into that anymore. That said, a round trip flight from NorCal to SoCal is about $130 so between the Bay and LA, I know I’m pretty lucky when it comes to fandom things.

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Do you really want a modern Gentle Ben, the darker and edgier "real" version. With the bastard cop being a violent Tumper and the kid being an animal abuser keeping the potentially man eating Ben chained in a shed until the cocaine bear rampage as the season one cliffhanger? Because that is the GB reboot, and you know it.

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Weaponizing, or is it monetizing, the fannish desire to correct people to seem smarter. I am either appalled or envious, and I don't know which.

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Eternals was the first MCU movie since Avengers1 that I actually looked up fanfic for. And so far also the last.

I really liked the movie and the characters and I'm sad too that everyone else seems to hate it. Though I do think it would've been better as a tv show.

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Vintage wank here.

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They have a checklist of talking points that all shows must cover, and fuck 'em if they do it out of order or put a play on them much less miss 'em. I hate modern fandom.

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... but you wouldn't mind if someone else made them for you! As always, including the fandom and full character names is a big help, and I'll try my best to use an appropriate image choice.

Just to clarify - it's my intention to make all the secrets left in this thread, so even if they're not marked claimed, they will be made. I'll monitor this thread until tomorrow's secret post goes up, so feel free to leave your comments until then!

Yours truly,

a secret maker

P.S. Please don't worry if you've submitted a secret and it hasn't been posted yet. I usually post these threads before running out of the previous batch of secrets to get a head start on the next batch.

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