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⌈ Secret Post #6404 ⌋

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Smile

[philstar22]

What things have made you smile recently?


I've got COVID at the moment. And my cat is being a total sweetheart. She keeps climbing up on top of me, I think she's trying to heal me. She always makes me smile.

I also really enjoyed Dr. Mike's most recent Youtube video about Onion fake medical inventions. Was really funny.

Re: Smile

[(Anonymous)]

Hope you kick Covid's ass.

Agreed about Dr. Mike's vid, especially when he started commenting on the meat spray.

Watched some Sesame Street bloopers today, very cute.

Re: Smile

[greghousesgf]

get better soon sweetie!
My best friend who had disappeared on me a few weeks ago is back! YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYY

Re: Smile

[mishey22]

I hope you feel better soon. ♥

What are some characters and ships you are ambivalent towards?

[(Anonymous)]

No hate, no love, just meh.

Re: What are some characters and ships you are ambivalent towards?

[philstar22]

For ships, basically everything in Criminal Minds. I love the show, I just don't ship anyone. The closest I get is being happy Will and JJ are happily married. But I don't actively ship.

I'm kind of ambivalent towards Worf. Although Worf/Jadzia is my favorite Trek ship, I really only enjoy him when he's with her. I don't actively seek fics about him. I just find him a little boring overall.

Re: What are some characters and ships you are ambivalent towards?

[kaijinscendre]

Peter Parker. I just don't care about Spider-man at all. I think I'm not in the demographic for him.

Erasermic on MHA. It's just that pairing that is in the background of every fic you read in that fandom.

Re: What are some characters and ships you are ambivalent towards?

[(Anonymous)]

Astarion.

He's fine and a fun character for sure so I get why his fans love him. But he just gets a solid 'okay' from me because I'm not into vampires at all and I have my preferred companions. I will never ever say this anywhere near the fandom though lmao.

Re: What are some characters and ships you are ambivalent towards?

[(Anonymous)]

VegasPete from KinnPorsche. The actors have zero chemistry and without it the romance doesn't work for me. I was completely bored during their story line.

Re: What are some characters and ships you are ambivalent towards?

[(Anonymous)]

Oshamir. I understand a lot of people got a LOT out of them during The Acolyte, but I was so terribly "Meh." on them.

Re: What are some characters and ships you are ambivalent towards?

[(Anonymous)]

Jonathan Byers from Stranger Things. Just not all that interested in his story, though occasionally his character will do something interesting. More often, it feels like he's just along for the ride when he's with whatever other character(s) doing something interesting.

Historical fiction pet peeves

[(Anonymous)]

Inspired by #6. Do you have any particular nitpicks that take you out of the story?

(As a disclaimer, yes, historical fiction doesn't always have to be realistic. Some people prefer realism or just have certain things that break their immersion).

Re: Historical fiction pet peeves

[philstar22]

Modern slang in historical settings, whether realistic or fantasy settings. I don't necessarily expect Tolkien-level language in all Middle Earth fics, but please don't use modern slang unless it is a modern AU. And no weird nicknames.


For published historical fiction, when the awfulness of distant past periods is so exaggerated. And when myths are portrayed as fact.

Re: Historical fiction pet peeves

[(Anonymous)]

I know a fair bit about psychiatric history, and it really throws me off when characters talk about diagnoses that won't exist for many years, or in general when they talk about concepts like "madness" from a very modern perspective, instead of considering the meaning of the word in the historical context they're using it. Our understanding of mental health is very specific to our times and places. Not to say mental health experiences themselves are false, but that the way we group symptoms, name them, and understand them is very culture dependent.

I know I'm being nitpicky because a lot of authors are just not thinking that deeply about this specific thing, but it does distract me.

Re: Historical fiction pet peeves

[(Anonymous)]

Modern psychology in historical settings. They may have noticed the trends but they wouldn't say it like we do. They're going to say haunted by war, not "psychologically damaged" by it.

Also, historical disabled characters are not going around teaching people how to be accommodating to their disability unless they're the king and that will be less teaching and more demanding. A rando scullery-maid is definitely not going to be doing either.

Not quite the same but of a similar flavor, I ran into a fic that takes place in an alternate fantasy universe and they used September, October, and November. Pulled me out of the fic cause in this universe there was no Rome...

Re: Historical fiction pet peeves

[(Anonymous)]

Any time a female character says a corset is "hard to breathe in" or "hard to do anything in". Girl, you would've been wearing some sort of corset since you were 7 or 8 years old. You'd be as used to corsets as modern women are used to bras.

Re: Historical fiction pet peeves

[meadowphoenix]

mythic retellings that have done no research into the setting of the period. this is especially bad with feminist greek/roman myth retellings.

Re: Historical fiction pet peeves

[(Anonymous)]

Learning that the word "sibling" wasn't in use outside of scientific contexts until the early to mid 20th century has made a lot of historical fiction harder to read.

Re: Historical fiction pet peeves

[(Anonymous)]

Re: the Regency era, it bugs me a little when people don't seem to understand that the social rules of etiquette were very different back then. Austen touches upon some of it, but doesn't explicitly list what they are because her audience already knew it. This is particularly true re: the role of women - for the upper class, a young, unmarried woman doesn't visit a young, unmarried man at his house. They don't correspond by letter unless they're related, or it's in secret (and then you have to work out how that's done). People communicated via letters and in-person visits, that was a near-daily part of your social life even if you were a homebody. Class structure was a lot more rigid. Going around calling people you don't know well by their first name generally wasn't done and might even be seen as an insult. This is particularly true if the two people were from different social classes, so a footman would not be calling the Duke of Such-and-such by his first name.

IMO, part of the fun of a Regency era story is working within those more stringent guidelines and how it changes the story and relationships, so when people don't bother to follow them at all, it just feels like a modern story with gowns and dances.

Re: Historical fiction pet peeves

[(Anonymous)]

Yes! Medical stuff - inhalers for asthma were not a thing in the 1870s - or technology. WWII telephones were not small enough to fit into a pocket and not every house had one. Just stuff like this that throws me right out of a fic.

Re: Historical fiction pet peeves

[(Anonymous)]

I don't mind female characters potentially being written with more agency or power than a non-fictional counterpart may have been afforded, but I hate when a character's gender is treated as interchangeable or invisible within a setting where it probably wouldn't be. It's mostly apparent in video games that let you choose a playable protagonist (looking at you, recent Assassin's Creed. Those games clearly wanted the women to be canon anyway, and I think the writing would have been better if they didn't have to account for the male option).

Re: Historical fiction pet peeves

[(Anonymous)]

LGBTQ terms to describe someone in a same sex relationship. Even back in the 90s, we didn't have these new umbrella terms and even the TERM LGBT wasn't used until the early 2000s at the earliest. I remember being called a lesbian early into my hs years (1997-2001) and not understanding the term until someone else called me gay.

Weekend Plans?

[(Anonymous)]

What are you going to do this weekend, FSers?

I'm going to a water park/fairground tomorrow.

On Saturday, I'll be at a comic book convention. I'm looking forward to seeing some cosplay.

Tech outage thoughts

[(Anonymous)]

With today's tech outage due to the Crowdstrike update, are you prepared for the possibility of a critical infrastructure failure?

Just thoughts, after the question the other day about a go-bag. A lot of people consider prepping only for the doomers, but I think it is smart to consider just how dependent we are on everyday things going smoothly with technology.