[ SECRET POST #1554 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #1554 ⌋

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

01.


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02.
[Knut The Polar Bear]


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03.
[Invader Zim]


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04.
[Can't Hardly Wait]


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05.
[Arthur C. Clarke's Odyssey series]


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06.
[Robert Knepper/Prison Break]


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07.
[The Prophecy, Christopher Walken]


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08.
[Skins]


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09.
[In a Fix, on TLC]


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10.
[UK TV/Radio]


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11.
[Homestuck and Puella Magi Madoka Magica]


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12.
[Shameless US]


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13.
[Young Justice]


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14.
[Rose of Versailles]


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15.
[Dr. Horrible]


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16.
[Tangled]


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17.
[Homestuck]


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18.
[Severus Snape/Lolita KompleX]


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19.
[Alien loves Predator]


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20.
[TFL]


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21.
[Regular Show]


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22.
[Summer Wars]


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23.
[Glee]


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24.
[Ace Attorney]


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25.
[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]


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26.
[Fringe]


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27.
[k-pop]


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28.
[Stargate SG1, Legend of the Seeker, Rizzoli & Isles]


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29.
[Sailor Moon]


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30.
[The Spoony Experiment]


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31.
[MSLN]


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32.
[Todd In The Shadows/Infomania]


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33.
[Roman Polanski and Woody Allen]



Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 05 pages, 120 secrets from Secret Submission Post #222.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 1 - broken links ], [ 1 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 1 2 3 4 5 - too big ], [ 1 - repeat ], [ 1 - not English ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[xanykaos.livejournal.com]

Oh. Oh lord in heaven. You did not just refer to art as "unnecessary" and the money spent on those programs as "wasted."

I'm really beginning to think that you've got to be a very good subtle troll because the idea that there are myriad people--potentially powerful people--who actually think this way makes me a little sick. I'm not even exaggerating. I actually feel nauseated reading this. It's horrifying.

But more than that, I have trouble believing you can be involved in fandom enough to be on F!S and see art, drama, and music as "unnecessary." Life. Is. Art. Everything that has a fandom is art. Art is the foundation for culture.

Look, seriously...without art. Without music and drama, paintings and novels, stories and jokes...without all that extra, what the ever-loving hell are you living for? What are you going to enjoy with all that money? What's the point of your job? What's the point at all? In what way are you a person and not a robot, if you only live to do a cooperate job?

Hell, what's fun?

Art (and I'll go ahead and include sports in that, under the "art is anything not motivated by survival/need" definition) is what makes life life. That's not an abstract ideal, that's the reason that all over the world you have so many beautifully drastically different cultures. Art is the balm that makes the weary world livable when things are low. Art, the soul of it, endures in the meanest of settings to the highest. It raises people up and makes them more, makes them better. Teaching children Shakespeare and Mozart, putting an instrument in their hands and letting them learn to play, passing around the cheap tempra paint that the teachers bought with their own salary, that's what makes them grow up to be human beings instead of soulless automatons.

And if you want something beyond a struggling, somewhat belligerent artist waxing poetic, then yes, by all means, look it up. Maybe try something more substantial than Google. Pick up a few philosophy books or psychology studies. Beyond all the sparkly pep-talk, the process of creating art, whether or not you're any good at painting a picture, writing a story, playing an instrument, etc. engages and develops the brain in very specific, important ways.


And yeah, if you really think it's okay to treat workers the way big corporations do, why do you think so many people hate those companies? Why do you think we get fierce little grins every time we see a big-wig led away in handcuffs for thinking he deserved 90% of the pie? You treat people like that, you're really just one unstable and disgruntled employee away from a burned down office building.

I honestly can't believe you'd make it to the age of 20 without ever looking around and wondering. Without, apparently, having ever seen a movie. There's sheltered, and then there's me wondering if I typed a few ranty paragraphs out to someone who's playing a belated April Fools prank to the hilt.

[dorknessrising.livejournal.com]

Yeah, pretty much this. I'm starting to think troll, too, because the alternative is damn horrifying.

[(Anonymous)]

Technically, if my dad knew about the fact that I was involved in fandom, I'd probably get whacked upside the head with something. I like to read, believe it or not, and I really like to watch movies and television. I write fanfiction, even though it's not really something that I was raised to believe as being beneficial. I've worked on the coding for a fan game.

But I do it on my own time. Not when I'm supposed to be studying, not when I'm supposed to be working. If you want to do artistic, fun stuff, then do it when you're not supposed to be at school. I started getting involved in fandom when I was in high school, but I did it after school, after I'd gotten my work done.

I'm also aware that if I "fulfill my destiny," so to speak, it's likely that my employees are going to want me dead. I know that. But I also try to be a good person, despite the fact that I sound like Gordon Gekko (and yes, I know who that is). I can't control other people's feelings. But I know what's expected of me.

[kanjo-girl.livejournal.com]

And, honestly, I keep wondering the same thing. There's no way someone can be on the Internet and not know any of this. My first year into my life on the Internet, I learned about sex. (TMI, but whatever) There's just no way you can't know about the debates and--I can't even. Especially if you live in the US. Just sayin.

In addition, if I were in Hannah's position (name, i think?), I'd be really defensive right about now.