[ SECRET POST #6361 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6361 ⌋

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[fscom]

General comments:

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Based on 4

[(Anonymous)]

What are your favorite documentaries? If you don't watch those, what are your favorite non-fiction books?

Re: Based on 4

[(Anonymous)]

Documentaries:
How The Earth Made Us (geology/history)
Seven Wonders of the Industrial World (engineering/history)
Space (2001 with Sam Neill - astronomy)
The Story of Science (history of science)

Non-fiction books:

My ubiquitous rec for anything written by Mary Roach

A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: Murder in Ancient Rome by Emma Southon (I've read this, like, four times, it's fantastic)

The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time by John Kelly

Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything your American History Textbook Got Wrong by James Loewen

Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language by Gretchen Mcculloch

A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson

The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime by Judith Flanders

Re: Based on 4

[(Anonymous)]

I think I've mentioned these here on FS before, but I'll do it again.

Documentaries:
Tower - about the 1966 University of Texas clocktower shooting)
The Orange Years: The Nickelodeon Story

Non-fiction books:
The Man from the Train by Bill James and Rachel McCarthy James - true crime theory about the Villisca axe murders being connected to other murders (Bill James also did a true crime anthology, Popular Crime – Reflections on the Celebration of Violence, he's a baseball statistician and his writing style is interestingly meandering)
The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes - and Why by Amanda Ripley - the author looks into the responses of people who were in disasters like the 1917 Halifax explosion and 9/11

Re: Based on 4

[(Anonymous)]

Oooh, all of these sound really intriguing. Gonna jot them down, thanks for sharing!

Re: Based on 4

[(Anonymous)]

ayrt

You're welcome! Hope you find them as interesting as I did!

Re: Based on 4

[philstar22]

So, I tend to prefer tv series-type documentaries that are episodic in nature. Sorting these by theme because I love lots of them

True Crime: Murder Maps (my top favorite), Evil Lives Here, Forensic Files, The New Detectives, Nightmare Next Door, Cold Case Files, A Crime to Remember, and A Strange in My Home.

Animal: Secrets of the Zoo, Secrets of the Octopus (new and really good), Queens (about big cats), Savage Kingdom (also about big cats), Cat People, The Vet Life, Dr Jeff: Rocky Mountain Vet, Too Cute, My Cat From Hell, Dr. K's Exotic Animal ER, and Dr. T: Lone Star Vet.

Nature: Blue Planet I and II, Frozen Planet, Our Planet, Into the Inferno, and Volcanoes of the Deep Sea.

Food themed: Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy, Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown, and Gordon Ramsay: Uncharted.

Space themed: Our Universe, Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking, The Planets, and Cosmos

Other: Immigration Nation

And then there are a couple non-tv ones, specifically volcano ones because I've been obsessed since childhood: Volcanoes: The Fires of Creation, Ring of Fire, Krakatoa, Pompeii: Secrets of the Dead, and Volcanoes: Fires of Creation

Re: Based on 4

[kaijinscendre]

Genuinely can't remember any I've watched recently that I loved. For books, I have quite a bit!

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes by Amanda Ripley
Dr. Mutter's Marvels: A True Tale of Intrigue and Innovation at the Dawn of Modern Medicine by Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz

Re: Based on 4

[(Anonymous)]

Autobiographies are the books that stay with me.
I liked the Dinosaur Al movies "Big Al".

Re: Based on 4

[(Anonymous)]

documentary but short the story of the rescued black leopard who got renamed Spirit (you can find it on youtube by searching spirit the black leopard and anna)

non-fiction book The Professor And The Madman (about the making of Oxford english dictionary; it introduced me to my favourite word ever - sesquipedalian it is it's own definition, lol multisyllable word).

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[(Anonymous)]

I watch a lot of Small Town Monsters focus. In Search Of series and the Werewolf of Bray Road being two that stick to mind.

[(Anonymous)]

That feeling when you’re finally starting to realize That One Fanfic just isn’t going to update. Sure it used to have a regular schedule, sure you follow the author on social media and know they’re alive and well, but you might have to accept that there just won’t be any more. And you have other fics to read but you really got addicted to this one. It’s happened before and it’ll happen again and all you can do is moan about it without mentioning the fic or author by name or even fandom just in case they’re lurking here, cause you don’t wanna be a dick.

[(Anonymous)]

Leave a new comment about how much you enjoy the fic. Seriously. I've seen this resurrect a fic that hadn't been updated in a decade because it brought it back to the forefront in the mind of the writer.

[(Anonymous)]

That's because there's no reviews. Deal with it.

[(Anonymous)]

Or the author doesn't feel it anymore.

[(Anonymous)]

A writer'd leave a note or even post a fic plan if feedback is good.

[(Anonymous)]

*guilty chuckles*

erm...no, wish that's how it works...sometimes there is/are forces we cannot control that stops an author from writing more :( much as I wish I could find the inspiration to complete a fic

[(Anonymous)]

Nope. This is a bullshit whinybaby excuse.

[(Anonymous)]

Sure, it sucks when the updates slow down or stop altogether. But unless the author has announced they are holding chapters hostage for feedback, it's not really for anyone to judge. You have no idea what someone else might be going through.

[tabaqui]

So, so, so feel this. I usually do what Anon above said, and leave an upbeat, complimentary comment that's not just 'omg update!!!'.

Sometimes it works!

[(Anonymous)]

Oh man, I so feel this. There's this one fic I've been eagerly awaiting an update for. The author said they wouldn't be updating for a while because they were moving, so I wasn't too concerned that it'd been a month since they last updated. But then a couple of nights ago I realized that the author has written three fics for a new fandom in the month since they last updated. And two out of three of the author's previous longfics are abandoned.

There's still a chance they'll come back and update, but the realization that they may well have already moved on really caught me off guard.

[(Anonymous)]

Yup. I leave the subscription on ao3 but in my head I've given up on them.

I used to drop in and leave a comment if I reread it but I got told off by a couple authors for "begging" or "nagging" them (the comments were just general "re-reading this and it is just as good as I remember!" no "nxt ch pls!" or anything) so now I just pine away silently and assume things will never be finished.

Bought a heating pad with a 5 year warranty

[(Anonymous)]

It broke after 2 years. Got it replaced under warranty. The new one just broke after less than two years! Should I try to get it replaced again?

Re: Bought a heating pad with a 5 year warranty

[(Anonymous)]

It's a free replacement, right? Unless it's too much of a hassle, I'd do it. You have no guarantee that a different heat pad would work longer.

Re: Bought a heating pad with a 5 year warranty

[(Anonymous)]

Agree with other anon, if it's free to you there's no harm in trying. If they charge you shipping or if it's a super hassle I'd just try a new one.