[ SECRET POST #6358 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6358 ⌋

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What fun fandom trivia have you learned recently (or just feel like sharing)?

[(Anonymous)]

Timothy Hutton's father was Jim Hutton, who played the detective Ellery Queen in a TV adaptation.

This is especially fun for me because there's an episode of Leverage in which Timothy Hutton's character (Nate Ford) has to dress up as a famous fictional detective and chooses Ellery Queen. I'm not sure it's true, but some people say he even used the same hat as part of the costume.

Re: What fun fandom trivia have you learned recently (or just feel like sharing)?

[(Anonymous)]

A few weeks ago I went down a weird rabbit hole of "who's related to who" and damn near all of Hollywood is related to some famous person. It's nepotism all the way down! Or just the family business. Whatever you want to call it.

I think it started with Sean Astin, and then I kept seeing people mention other celebs with in the biz relatives and soon a whole afternoon was wasted.

Re: What fun fandom trivia have you learned recently (or just feel like sharing)?

[greghousesgf]

the obnoxious little kid in a couple of Jeeves and Bertie episodes grew up to play Meyer Lansky in Boardwalk Empire (didn't learn this recently but I still get a kick out of it)

The Thick of It and Morse/Lewis/Endeavour

[(Anonymous)]

Not new, but this is both weirdly coincidental and super niche. I don't know... it's just very pleasing to my brain.

Rebecca Front and Roger Allam played political opposites in The Thick of It. They are respectively the Labour and Conservative "Secretaries of State for Social Affairs and Citizenship".

They were also the senior officers for two different Inspector Morse spin-offs. Rebecca Front plays Chief Superintendent Jean Innocent in the sequel series, Lewis. Roger Allam plays Detective Inspector Fred Thursday in the prequel series, Endeavour.

Re: What fun fandom trivia have you learned recently (or just feel like sharing)?

[(Anonymous)]

Jim Hutton is also in a good Twilight Zone episode from 1959: "And When the Sky Was Opened".

How do you feel about fandom drama?

[(Anonymous)]

I ignore it for fandoms I am in but love watching train wrecks in fandoms I am not.

Re: How do you feel about fandom drama?

[(Anonymous)]

It depends. Sometimes if I'm in the fandom I find the drama so ridiculous I can't help but look and laugh at it, other times I'm so annoyed by it I avoid and block it.

For fandoms I'm not in I do find the drama super fun to go poke around in because when I have no emotional investment it's entertaining as hell.

Re: How do you feel about fandom drama?

[(Anonymous)]

I'm like the guy vacuuming his front lawn to hear what's going down. I love fandom drama, especially when I'm in the fandom since I have more access to the juicy details.

Re: How do you feel about fandom drama?

[philstar22]

When I was younger, I lived for the debates. Now I find drama exhausting. I've left some fandoms just because they've become so toxic. I still love Star Wars and Doctor Who, but the fandoms are terrible.

It helps that I've now seen what a healthy fandom looks like.

Re: How do you feel about fandom drama?

[(Anonymous)]

Honestly, the only time I'm bothered by it is if I disagree with the prevailing opinion on whatever the issue is. The rest of the time, whether I agree with the prevailing opinion or there is no prevailing opinion or I don't care that much one way or the other, then I'm just hanging out eating popcorn.

[(Anonymous)]

It makes me feel old and tired, because it's the same basic stuff cycling through each generation and fandom.

Re: How do you feel about fandom drama?

[(Anonymous)]

I am totally oblivious to anything unless it gets mentioned on r/HobbyDrama

Sometimes it's intriguing, sometimes it's just baffling.

I'm thankful that the way I engage with fandom (reading fic and occasional essays) allows me to distance myself from almost all the impassioned drama.

Re: How do you feel about fandom drama?

[(Anonymous)]

I just miss fandom_wank so much.

Re: How do you feel about fandom drama?

[(Anonymous)]

Why? Is there a new bloody one around?

Re: How do you feel about fandom drama?

[(Anonymous)]

I usually block and report if it's on tumblr. I don't generally care for it but if it's clogging up the character/series tag, I usually don't want to see it, so block and report.

Re: How do you feel about fandom drama?

[paperghost]

Sucks when it's happening or in proximity to you, but good for a laugh when time has passed.

Re: How do you feel about fandom drama?

[(Anonymous)]

Most times I prefer to watch from a distance. Depending on the topic, I can be interested in hearing other fandom's drama.

The fun/interest tends to lack a lot more if I'm in the fandom.

Most times I prefer for someone to tell me the deets rather than I having to go do my own research (though the random "oops deep dive rabbit hole" solo researches can be engrossing).

solo travelers

[(Anonymous)]

How the heck do you plan an overseas trip? I have 9 days off and really want to go overseas somewhere (I'm in the US) but the planning is so overwhelming. I don't want to just go to one city and sit there, but coordinating anything else seems like an impossible task.

When I travel in the US I just kind of wing it. I mostly do hiking and roadtrips (with dayhikes) and that is easy to be spontaneous in a country I know.

I've looked at travel packages but they are all crazy expensive. Idk. I'm just so overwhelmed. It doesn't help that I waited until the last minute so a lot of things are fully booked already.

Re: solo travelers

[(Anonymous)]

This is probably obvious but make sure you have a passport and that you've checked any visa requirements before buying any tickets. You can reserve hotels, trains, buses, etc online for traveling between cities. You can also rent a car, but make sure to check the driver's license requirements first; some countries will allow US licenses and some require an international license. It would most likely be cheaper to get a SIM card for your phone with a local number while you're there than to use the international plan for your network. Make sure to tell your bank that you're traveling to whatever country and the dates so they don't assume your card has been stolen and deactivate it.

Re: solo travelers

[(Anonymous)]

I don't travel much at all these days, but my US-based parents do a bit of traveling in Europe.

They tend to fly to a particular city, spend some time around there, and then sometimes do a few day trips in the wider area. They research a lot, but they usually make very few reservations beyond hotel stays and sometimes a car rental. (Or a restaurant, if it's something that's been especially recommended.)

Is there anywhere particular you're thinking about going? Are you interested in places that have good hiking trails?

Re: solo travelers

[kaijinscendre]

https://new.reddit.com/r/solotravel/ has been a great resource for me! However, if you do feel overwhelmed, you could do something like G Adventures or Intrepid. They have hiking/camping trips as well as city.

Re: solo travelers

[(Anonymous)]

Travel packages are expensive because they do most of the work for you. It’s pretty easy to do it yourself, though. Just decide where you want to go and then you can look up transport links between the places to jump around. Flying can be cheaper than trains but not always. To see more in a short time, picking places next to each other is helpful. Some places are always more expensive like all of Italy, London, and usually Paris. Transport to Scandinavian countries can run pretty cheap but everything there is more expensive. Precovid, lots of cities had a city pass that you could buy that would get you discounts and free public transportation. Usually these were offered as one day or three day passes. Copenhagen had the best because you got into Tivoli Gardens for free and their public transport zones extended out so far that you could see quite a lot of things. We rode to Helsingør then took the ferry across to Helsingborg, Sweden where we got a train to Stockholm, spent a day, then flew home.

Re: solo travelers

[(Anonymous)]

- Make sure your passport's in order before purchasing any tickets to anywhere

- being USA based you have easier access to a lot of places than someone like me from Australia (30+ hrs to get anywhere and $2kAUD in flights, might as well spend a month or more there)

- try looking at things yourself before going through an agent. You're paying them commission on top of what the general cost is.

- sometimes it's worth ringing up hotels or directly messaging them to discuss the price of your stay.

- what's nearby the destination that you'd be interested in? are there museums or walking tracks to keep you entertained or are you just going to be staying in the hotel all the time you're there.

- look at walking tours. generally not priced as you'll pay your guide what you think the tour was worth at the end.

Random question

[(Anonymous)]

If you were dating someone, and one day they told you that they did something wrong but came back in time to undo it (assume you believe this is possible), and they tell you what they did and it was definitely something that would lead you to break up with them, what would you do? Would you be mad at them because in a way, they still technically did it? Or would you be fine with it because from your point of view, it never actually happened?