[ SECRET POST #6071 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6071 ⌋

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


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[The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock]



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Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 48 secrets from Secret Submission Post #868.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

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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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General comments → Off-topic discussion thread

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[(Anonymous)]

This is most non-text-based fandoms, isn't it? Idk how you'd have an actual, serious, interactive discussion about anything over instagram or tiktok even if you wanted to

[(Anonymous)]

My only experience with booktuber is Merphy Napier. I do think she's pretty nuanced in her reviews, though I'm not a patreon or on discord (if she even has a discord), so I don't know what she's like in live discussions.

[(Anonymous)]

It honestly never occurred to me to get any book recs or decent discussion from those sources, for the same reasons you cite.

[(Anonymous)]

I feel like we're on very different booktoks lol. Yes I do get the occasional: This is the latest book and every one needs to read it! (for a while Fourth Wing was all over my fyp), but in general it's curated to people who stick to one or two book recs per video with a decent synopsis/what they liked about it.

[(Anonymous)]

This is a reflection of a general trend in culture. It sucks and I have no idea how to fix it.

[(Anonymous)]

Can't say anything about Booktube and Booktok but I like my Bookstagram corner. We read books (it's not a competition but we do hit our 50-200 books per year depending on person/circumstances/editions) and we discuss them - albeit often in DMs cause no paragraphs in comments drives us batty.

[(Anonymous)]

Dunno. I've found Savy Writes Books to be fairly substantial in her discussion of the books she reads.

[(Anonymous)]

I don’t think any of those platforms lend themselves easily to discussions. Recommending books and doing a video analysis? Yup. Discussing the book with people in the comments? Not really.

I do love the pretty pictures though. I just wish my favorite books were the ones that got the LE treatment with the gorgeous end papers, ribbon bookmarks, and fancy covers. All the books I’ve seen that have gotten that treatment have been books I strongly disliked.

[(Anonymous)]

thank you secret maker for choosing such a lovely picture!

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[(Anonymous)]

Absolutely. It plays into how risk-averse online culture has become in general and it seeps into the real world. Audiences are happy with the state of things (remakes and reboots) and it was always a minority that wanted original content.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, I think you're right. I think a lot of people like the idea of something fresh and original, but whether or not they (and many others) actually spend money to consume it in the theaters is a separate issue. Predictable and comforting media is far less of a gamble.

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[The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock]

[(Anonymous)]

I had to read this for A levels and I have to say you're spot on, we're definitely drinking from the same pot of tea here. Of course, I never quite got on with it; it was a bit too sadly pathetic for me to appreciate as a teen.

The line about a face for the faces that we meet still echoed, though.

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[feotakahari]

I feel like a lot of shounen manga protagonists have no chemistry with the girls who fans ship them with. Does that count?

(Seriously, where did anyone get Izuku/Tsuya from?)

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[(Anonymous)]

Back in the height of Homestuck fandom, I was part of a private group that mostly did erotic roleplaying. We all were very good at respecting boundaries and keeping IC and OOC separate. Most of us identified as women.

Then a bunch of male fans found the group, and suddenly I was getting unsolicited dick pics, intrusive questions, and requests to rp sex "as ourselves rather than as our characters."

So the horse cock futa artist might very well have a point.

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[(Anonymous)]

Did I miss something? I'm also very much looking forward to a live action version that might actually be /good/ this time.

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[(Anonymous)]

I don't know if I've just read too many fanfics with OOC Obi-Wan, but I see where you're coming from.

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[erinptah]

...I haven't read the book, but surely that would be a reference to "US soldiers descending into savagery when they were sent to fight the Vietnam War, in the specific political and military context of the time," not "savagery related to generally living in the country of Vietnam at all"?

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NS, NF, etc.

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I Am Not A Robot!

[tabaqui]

Just lately, about every time I use Google, I have to do the little 'click here to prove you're a human' thing, which is just so FUCKING weird and annoying.

Yes, I have a VPN, but I've had it for almost a year, and this just started happening.
I mean, I'm googling an address here in my town, I'm googling a movie that's out right now, I'm googling books/authors.... It's maddening and baffling.

Here's what Google is saying, if anyone is interested....

"Our systems have detected unusual traffic from your computer network. This page checks to see if it's really you sending the requests, and not a robot. Why did this happen?

This page appears when Google automatically detects requests coming from your computer network which appear to be in violation of the Terms of Service. The block will expire shortly after those requests stop. In the meantime, solving the above CAPTCHA will let you continue to use our services.

This traffic may have been sent by malicious software, a browser plug-in, or a script that sends automated requests. If you share your network connection, ask your administrator for help — a different computer using the same IP address may be responsible. Learn more

Sometimes you may be asked to solve the CAPTCHA if you are using advanced terms that robots are known to use, or sending requests very quickly. "

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Games thread!