[ SECRET POST #7015 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #7015 ⌋

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


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 37 secrets from Secret Submission Post #1002.
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

[case]

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.)

(frozen comment) Trying to start something.

[(Anonymous)]

You froze the whole argument about misgendering Naomi Novik in the comment secrets thread (which was a good idea) so I assume you'd want to know if it popped up again now that the secret's been posted:

https://fandomsecrets.dreamwidth.org/3377993.html?thread=1154251081#cmt1154251081

(frozen comment)

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DAILY LINKS:

General comments → Off-topic discussion thread

Games thread → Thread for games/memes/etc.

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Transcript by OP

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There's a game I play. If you played the game too, you'd see tons and tons of daily players who are glad to be there. We're having fun, making friends, loving the game.

Outside the game, there's a subreddit where everyone goes to complain about various things in it. A large percentage of the readers there follow the sub but don't even play the game any more, and have lost all perspective of the fact that the only part of the fandom they're seeing now is the vents forum. They think the game is full of assholes and are convinced everyone is having a miserable, negative time.

Sometimes the people on FS remind me of them.

[(Anonymous)]

it definitely feels like the people of fandomsecrets don't actually participate in fandom or anything. It's all about treating fanfiction like original fiction, not taking in the canons of the fic they're reading, not leaving comments/kudos, not participating. Just consuming and complaining.

That's been my experience here, anyway.

[iff_and_xor]

That’s kind of funny to me because my perspective has always been that it’s a place explicitly for unburdening yourself of the shameful, unkind, embarrassing, petty secrets that you don’t want to voice elsewhere. So you’re automatically seeing a less virtuous or functional side of people, all their darker, snarkier thoughts.

I assume that plenty of people on FS do really enjoy fandom (whatever that means for them), they just have other places to celebrate that.

[kaijinscendre]

That is every video game subreddit I've ever been on, TBH.

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Transcript by OP

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1) There's no wrong way to play a game.

2) I'm not interested in your thoughts about a game if you haven't even finished Act 1.

I wish players who revel in their restartitus would make their own spaces.

[(Anonymous)]

This is the one thing Discord is actually good for. Ones for games usually have different channels for different stages of game progression that you opt into/out of for spoilering reasons. The people you describe could stay all year in an Act 1 channel and never look at the rest.

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Transcript by OP

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I feel personally betrayed by Naomi Novak's books being shit, because I remember being fandom friends with them and really enjoying their fic and general style.

I should go back and re-read their old stuff, maybe my memory is rose tinted, but I also don't want those fun memories ruined by reality.

[(Anonymous)]

Wow, I totally disagree, I thought the Scholomance series, Uprooted, and Spinning Silver were all well written and entertaining. I did hear the Temeraire series went downhill so never got into it. Loved her fanfic back in the day too.

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[(Anonymous)]

Ah, there's the misgendering secret.

[(Anonymous)]

Rude, even though I think the Temeraire series never quite lived up to its promise.

[(Anonymous)]

Are they? I read Uprooted back when it came out and I remember really enjoying it, but it's been over ten years and I don't remember enough about it to tell if I'd still find it good now.

[(Anonymous)]

I've heard of her in fandom days, but wasn't into HP so never read her stuff. Tried the Temaraire books and thought it was a cute concept, but very light on plot. Uprooted was okay, IIRC but her work (like a lot of books these days) sound appealing to me in terms of the concept but the actual writing is just so-so.

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Transcript by OP

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I don't want to sound mean/defeatist, but I just feel like this is dead on arrival in the vein of Jordan Peele rebooting The Twilight Zone. The classic of both shows are still beloved today and have huge fandoms, so trying to reboot it without any of the original creators, actors, etc make the core fans less likely to want to watch it and despite how good it may be, it'll be compared to the classic. I hope they find success, but I won't be surprised to hear this is cancelled after 2 seasons.

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Transcript by OP

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Just a week in and I think Pokopia may be ruining my life. I'm losing hours and eyesight.

I hate building games. I just love finding Pokemon with my stupid derpy ditto face.

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Transcript by OP

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Sometimes a male character can be well into his legal-adult years and I still find it jarring if he's referred to as a man. It's age-dependent to some extent (most characters in their early 20s are still boys or guys in my mind), but it also depends on how the character is presented—i.e. maturity, comportment, responsibilities, etc. There are even characters in their late 20s that my brain doesn't think of as men (Mike from S1 of Suits as an example).

For the record, this isn't some sneaky, "That 25yo is child-coded" anti bullshit. One of my OTPs is aged 18/48. Every single time I see the 18yo character referred to as a man, my brain goes, "Ma'am, that is a boy."

Also for the record, I love and respect "boy" characters just as deeply as "man" characters. (I also tend to relate to them more, which is a whole other can of worms, but yeah.)

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NS, NF, etc.

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Official advertise your fandom-related event thread.

RULES FOR THIS:
1. NO images bigger than 600x600 in either direction (banners, et cetera).
2. ONE POST PER USER under this thread.
3. What IS allowed: roleplay advertisements, fandom comms, fandom events, things like that.
4. What is NOT allowed: anything for profit, any kind of fic/art commissions, seeking 1-on-1 RP, that kind of thing.

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General comments:

(If the thread contains spoilery/triggery content please warn/post as 2nd comment so it collapses!
Please collapse images, too!)

Inspired by 6

[(Anonymous)]

Around what age or maturity level or stage of life or whatever else do you think the divide between 'boy' and 'man' lies?

Bonus points: is it different from the divide between 'girl' and 'woman'?

Extra bonus points: if a male character isn't 'a boy' but not quite 'a man', he's usually 'a guy'. What's the female character equivalent for that to you?

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Games thread!

[(Anonymous)]

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