[ SECRET POST #6475 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6475 ⌋

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


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[Saint Seiya/Knights of the Zodiac]



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03. [SPOILERS for The Righteous Gemstones, season 3]




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04. [SPOILERS for Hell Followed With Us]




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05. [SPOILERS for Ghost: Rite Here Rite Now]
[WARNING for discussion of RL death/loss]




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06. [WARNING for discussion of sexual harassment/stalking]

[Gushing Over Magical Girls]



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07. [WARNING for discussion of JKR/transphobia]
















Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 00 pages, 00 secrets from Secret Submission Post #925.
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.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

So if someone told you they're the #1 top fan of Chris Brown's music and absolutely adore it and want to gush about the artistry of the work and how it defined their life since 2006 you'd just be like "wow okay sure" and not "oof maybe listen to other music?"

Like, people get it's important to you. People also think it's a little weird and sad that it's so important you cannot let it go or even stop openly talking about it in the face of everything else, and choose to fixate on this instead of all the other great stuff to read out there.

[(Anonymous)]

To the first paragraph... yes, yes I would.

And please stop saying "Read another book." You can read all the books in the world and Harry Potter can still be the most important to you. My favorite book is one I read in high school. I've been an avid reader all my life and have read hundreds more books since then. My favorite is still that one. Does your brain perhaps only have room in it for the last thing you read? I'm sorry.

[(Anonymous)]

You're allowed to think that, and I'm allowed to be cringing at it.

[(Anonymous)]

Different anon, but you are way more cringey in this thread.

[(Anonymous)]

You're allowed to think that too. As OP said, more than one thing can be true at once!

Seriously though, the "HUH LOL CAN U ONLY REMEMBER THE LAST THING U READ? U DUMDUM" was pretty cringe.

[(Anonymous)]

Seriously? "rEaD aNoThEr bOoK DUM DUM DUM"?

[(Anonymous)]

Can you show me where I said "read another book" in that tone? I get you're defensive but you're fighting phantom enemies in this thread.

[(Anonymous)]

Okay, so now to make the analogy in the first paragraph closer to real life, would your reaction be the same if Chris Brown was pouring money into lobby groups pushing legislation to make beating women legal and in some cases required, and if he frequently and publicly said that by supporting his music you are supporting his political stance that beating women is good and should be required?

I mean, given the rest of your comments here, I'm guessing the answer is still "Yes, yes I would." But damn, girl. Even if you can't get over your childhood nostalgia for the sake of real people, maybe fake it a little when you're in public?

[philstar22]

I agree to an extent. I absolutely won't give Rowling any more money than I already have. But also, her being terrible doesn't change that Potter did have a tremendous impact on me growing up. I still read fanfic sometimes for that reason, and it does play a part in my personal fandom daydreams.

I don't think the secret is saying that everyone should keep spending money on Rowling. I think the secret is just saying that Potter did have an impact on a lot of people, and the author being a terrible human being doesn't change that.

[(Anonymous)]

I mean, I hate Chris Brown, but I was a MSI teen in the 2000s. Even if Jimmy Urine is abhorrent and I don't regret pirating the music in high school, I'm still going to talk about how it was important to me as a queer kid who stopped giving a fuck about respectability politics back then, how it was a gateway to better music by less shitty people, or the cool people I met via the fandom and "same hat" I get when meeting other 30-somethings who liked MSI as teens.

Like, I know "separate the art from the artist" is often a way to avoid critical thinking about how the artist's worldview affects the art (I'm cringing hard at a lot of stuff from MSI in hindsight and will be more wary of other musicians who utilize that kind of "edgy" humor), but Harry Potter is a cultural icon. It was written before JKR came forward with her views on gender, even if it had issues with race and whatnot before. It's also unfair to act like people's entire lives revolve around this one piece of media when they dare to defend why it can still be important to them.

[(Anonymous)]

"unfair to act like people's entire lives revolve around this one piece of media"

Er the secret says, quote, "defined our lives." I don't think this is talking about people who happened to like a HP movie.

[(Anonymous)]

Da but "defining a life" doesnt have to mean your life still revolves around HP all day every day. It just means the books have a special place in your heart because they defined a certain phase in your life because that's what they did -it wasn't just about the books, it was about the community, the collective wait for a new book in the series and how it defined the mental playgrounds for a lot of kids - this is an experience that's not something you can just turn off on a whim. And I say this as someone who read the first few books when there wasn't as much of a hype yet and dumped the series halfway through because I started to dislike it.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm the OP of the post that anon is replying to and thank you, this is exactly what I meant. I'm so tired of how bad faith anons are here, I thought DW would be better than Twitter/Tumblr since it skews older.

(I also dislike HP a lot too, which is why I chimed in with my equivalent formative media.)

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, like, when I did still like it, several things came together - in the beginning, my best friend and I got super into it because we, like many others, were the same age as the protagonists and got older alongside them. We play acted we were in Hogwarts for YEARS during a very formative time. And even after I ditched the books, I still look back very fondly on that time and yes, would say they defined part of who I am now, in some way.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't continue to support a lot of media or musicians who turned out to be bad people, but I still sometimes reminisce about it for "old times sake" (ex. listening to or reading old things I bought back before the creators showed their true colors) or even draw inspiration from them in my original works. I don't understand how this is so hard for people to grasp.