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fandomsecrets2011-07-10 03:51 pm
case) wrote in fandomsecrets2011-07-10 03:51 pm
[ SECRET POST #1650 ]
Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.
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Notes:
Secrets Left to Post: 09 pages, 207 secrets from Secret Submission Post #236.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 1 - not!fandom ], [ 1 2 - too big ], [ 0 - hit/ship/spiration ], [ 1 2 - omgiknowthatotherOP ], [ 0 - repeats ]
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments and concerns should go here.
Long ass response (part one)
1) I'm not trying to be rude, but I'm still trying to sort my way through the first part of this particular comment because of all the double negatives. I never said the picture wasn't relevant to the secret, but honestly, that doesn't look like a Twilight display to me. Even though sign pictured in the secret mentions the Twilight series, there is one book that I can pick out from the actual series on that cart. The rest appear to be other teen novels that may or may not include vampires/werewolves/whatever in their storylines (I don't know as they're unfamiliar to me). I don't see how that is a display for the series. To me, it looks very much like an encouragement for (young) people to read more and showing them options of books of a similar nature if they read and liked Twilight. A display of the series would have just that: the series.
2) I know that not all libraries hide the YA books away, but of the three main libraries I frequent (I live within walking distance of one, have close ties to another in a nearby neighborhood and work in a large university library), one and only one of them has YA books in a prominent place. There are advertisements in the two public ones for summer reading programs and such, but the books themselves? Not so visible unless you wander a bit.
3) I know that just because I haven't seen them doesn't mean that they don't exist somewhere. I'm not so arrogant as to assume that. However, none of the libraries I've been to have had such a thing, and thus it's hard for me to see what the fuss is about because I'm working off of my personal experience. If that makes me seem close-minded, then I'm sorry, but this is what I know, and none of the libraries I go to have had such a display for these books, even though there have been some fairly large events centered around the Harry Potter series at one of them. As I said before, the little sign above the book cart in the secret doesn't seem like much of a display to me, to be quite honest, or at least it looks nothing like the displays for books/series I have seen in libraries. A display of a sub-genre of YA literature? Perhaps. A display of the Twilight series? Not so much.
I have, however, seen huge displays for both series in book stores (sometimes large enough to take over as much as a quarter of the store), and the small sign/cart pictured in the secret isn't enough to convince me that the OP isn't mixing library displays and book store displays. Sorry. :/
4) I know people masturbate to books. If they didn't, then half the photography books in the art section of my workplace wouldn't get checked out. It's basically porn poorly disguised as academia. However, the OP seems to be saying that because there is so much porn of the characters online, then naturally people masturbate to the non-erotic source material. I don't doubt that there are people like that, but it seems highly unlikely that someone would do that with a library copy of, say, Harry Potter unless it was some sort of bizarre prank. I'd think someone who masturbated seriously to the source material would want to do so again and would thus go and buy their own copy rather than attempt to repeatedly check out what is sure to be a popular book or risk fines for hanging onto it.
Just because I like the characters of a series enough to want to read about them boning each other doesn't mean that I'm going to masturbate to them wandering Hogwarts, learning magic and fighting the Big Bad or whatever the hell they do in the Twilight series. Most people I can think of would want to masturbate to erotic material. Since there really isn't any in the source materials, they go and create it online and then masturbate to that.