[ SECRET POST #1721 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #1721 ⌋


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


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 07 pages, 168 secrets from Secret Submission Post #246.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 1 - broken links ], [ 1 (triggery) - not!secrets ], [ 1 - not!fandom ], [ 1 2 - too big ], [ 0 - repeats ], [ 1 - personal attack ]
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments and concerns should go here.

Comments

[fscom.livejournal.com]

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Timely secret is timely

[(Anonymous)]

I was actually jamming to "Mr. Blue Sky" while reading the secrets tonight. When I saw this one, I got excited... and then I got sad.

But eh, to each his/her own. Life would be so boring if we all liked the same bands and shit, etc, etc.

Re: Timely secret is timely

[writerserenyty.livejournal.com]

Me too, man. Jamming to ELO, "YAY ELO SECRET" then Oh..... Not Mr. Blue Sky, but definitely a favorite.

I'm curious, how do you think they're boring, OP? Musically or in terms of band-related fandom things? (Since Jeff Lynne runs the show basically, idk if there would be much bandom stuff with them. But Jeff Lynne kicks ass musically, so idek.)

.... yay ELO secret, though. Favorite band, FTW.

[alice-alaizabel.livejournal.com]

I'm confused as to how you can think a band is boring if you love their songs.

Or do you mean that the band never do anything exciting in their personal live etc so it's harder to create a fandom? Because surely that would be more a "I would like this band more if there was a fandom I could participate in" secret.

[childings.livejournal.com]

How are they boring though? You mean like their personal lives or what? They write songs about like, extraterrestrial love and shit.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, add me to the list of people scratching their heads at how you can love the music if the band is so boring. Unless you meant that the band members themselves haven't done anything outrageously rock-star like in their careers, in which case, um, okay I guess I can see that.

[ms-cucumber.livejournal.com]

Isn't being a train wreck the opposite of being boring? Is it really so great to be a fan of band that you don't know if the members might end up in jail or dead at any time? The rock and roll lifestyle died a long time ago.

OP - Clarification on 'boring' (a bit tl:dr)

[(Anonymous)]

Commenting here to save me replying to each of you with the same answer.

I'm sure there might be other words, and this is such a petty thing, but I came to love ELO after being part of several RPS fandoms, so I came to see ELO through those eyes as well. Except. Most of the ideas I've had for fic are all ridiculous AUs that might as well be original fiction because there's nothing else to write about. There's just not a lot to get excited about, y'know?

Perhaps the lack of fandom also adds to this. There's no one to bounce ideas off because no one else I know seems to know the band like I do. IDK if anyone else would even want to read ELO fic. I'm a bit worried of being ostracised for daring to see things that way, even though I'd never claim it was true at all. I'm just having fun with my ideas. So I've never joined any ELO comms or anything. I don't really talk about it with anyone. Not sure anyone else sees things like I do. (I ship Jeff Lynne/George Harrison, if that's any indication. But Beatles fandom won't have me either. So. :/)

I also have a bit of a love/hate relationship with Jeff Lynne as well. Love the early stuff, love the dodgy 80s stuff no one else seems to like (including Balance of Power; I love that shit), but the rest of it? I could take it or leave it, depending on how I feel. I can go through a week where I skip past ELO tracks to suddenly hearing Shangri-La or Strange Magic and remembering why I love this band.

And of course I started listening to The Move and to Roy Wood's stuff, and I've found myself preferring Roy to Jeff, which seems a bit heretical from what I've gathered. ELO were my favourite band when I didn't know about the rest. Now? Not so much.

I know a lot of this is personal preference, and some of it is very petty and I'm probably grasping at straws here. This is just my perspective on things. I don't expect anyone to agree with me. But I hope this helps clarify my secret a little?

Re: OP - Clarification on 'boring' (a bit tl:dr)

[childings.livejournal.com]

after being part of several RPS fandoms

Well I guess that explains it.
I've never been the kind of person who was really that into musicians' personal lives, unless they were really out there or there was something particularly unusual about their life that stood out. I'm really just into the music when it comes to bands, and everything else is just kind of secondary. I wouldn't know anything about the guys in ELO really aside, so I guess your secret makes sense if it comes to RPS