[ SECRET POST #1788 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #1788 ⌋

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

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[Star Trek: The Next Generation]


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[Avril Lavigne; Miho Fukuhara; Supercell]


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[Doctor Who]


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[Assassin's Creed]


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[Puss In Boots]


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[Parenthood]


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[Supernatural]


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[Mortal Kombat]


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[Greek Myths (Hermes), Allstate (Mayhem)]


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22. [SPOILERS for something, OP did not specify]



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24. [SPOILERS for modern warfare 3]



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25. [SPOILERS for Marble Hornets]



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26. [SPOILERS for Pandora Hearts]



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27. [SPOILERS for Dexter]



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28. [SPOILERS for Alien Nine Emulators ]



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29. [SPOILERS for Batman: Arkham City]



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30. [TRIGGER WARNING for pedophilia]

[Chrono Crusade]


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31. [TRIGGER WARNING for incest]



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32. [TRIGGER WARNING for rape]



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33. [TRIGGER WARNING for eating disorders]



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34. [TRIGGER WARNING for abuse]



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35. [TRIGGER WARNING for eating disorders]



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[House]

36. [TRIGGER WARNING for depression/suicide]



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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 00 pages, 000 secrets from Secret Submission Post #255.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 1 - broken links ], [ 1 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 1 2 - too big ], [ 1 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[kryss-labryn.livejournal.com]

My Mum never liked comics.

I tried really hard to get her to read Maus, which I think she would have enjoyed, but, as she put it, first she has to look a the panel and see what's going on, and then she has to read the text, by which time she's forgotten what's happening in the panel, so then she looks at the panel again, by which time she'd forgotten what the text was. Rinse and repeat for each panel. When her eyesight went bad it only made things worse.

She had always said she didn't have the patience for them, which I thought was dismissive and unfairly dismissing an entire medium based on gods knew what lame reasons. Once she explained that it actually was difficult for her to connect the pictures to the text in a coherent manner, then her "I don't have the patience" made more sense.

So I consider my Mum to have had a legitimate reason for not enjoying comics of any kind in any form.

But I'm afraid that when you generalize to say ALL comics are like this or like that, or that none of them do this or that thing, then never mind me whining about comics being an art form; I think you're simply dismissing an entire medium because one or two genres within it don't appeal. Because it certainly sounds as though the subtext of your secret is is that you don't like the super-hero genre.

Let me ask you a question: What do you think of super-hero movies? They've been around forever and there's been a tonne in the past, oh, ten years or so, of really quite a consistently high quality. So I'm curious, do you have the same reactions to these movies as you do towards the comics? Because if you find that the movie versions of these characters are engaging and have emotional depth but the comics do not, then I would suggest you take a look at some different genres in comics. And if you do have the same reactions to the movies as to the comics, then I figure it's safe to say that you simply don't enjoy super-heroes.

But please don't dismiss an entire medium based on your perceptions of one genre.

[mistressmerr.livejournal.com]

My mom has the exact same problem! She reads like a maniac, a book every other day or so, and while she's expressed interest in checking out some of my comics and still gives it a shot sometimes when she's really hard-up for something to read, she just has a really difficult time getting through and following them. I've never understood it, but apparently it's a thing?

[kryss-labryn.livejournal.com]

From the other replies I've received, it certainly sounds like it! Huh. Who knew?

[lovegonnadrown.livejournal.com]

huh, my sister has the same problem. I never understood why she would never read the comics i recommended even though we're always recommending different games and music and stuff to each other, but then she explained that she actually does have trouble reading them and it made a lot more sense.

[kryss-labryn.livejournal.com]

Yeah, if it's actually a problem to comprehend the medium then it's not going to be enjoyable, whether it's dyslexia making reading hard, or... this thing with comics, whatever it might be called, or like my Dad and movies now that his hearing's going.

If it's work to make sense of it then it's not gonna be fun.

[noapologiesx.livejournal.com]

omg. I think I may have just identified why I dislike comics. I have a similar problem to your mom. I know there are GREAT stories and characters out there so I've always felt bad for really disliking the medium, but for whatever reason I just can't focus on the pictures + text. It doesn't come together or make sense in my head and therefore doesn't tell me a story anywhere near as well as a book or a movie does.

[kryss-labryn.livejournal.com]

That's going to make things a lot harder and a lot less enjoyable, that's for sure!

I'm curious. Have you tried some of these animated comics online (I know Hellboy has some up on the official site)? Basically they're each panel, same as the comic; but for example, when people are talking, the balloons come up one at a time, in order. I wondre if that makes it any easier?

It's sucky to have difficulties with an entire medium, though. At least it's not as pervasive as say movies. My Dad's been having real problems with them for the past few years because his hearing's going, so while he can hear Character A just fine, Character B, at a slightly different pitch, he can't make out at all, and if there's background music (and when is there not, really) then he can't hear anything. I suggested turning on the subtitles but they're too small for him to be able to read.

So he just doesn't watch movies anymore, or TV either, except for sports. Luckily that was always mainly what he watched on TV anyways.

It is sounding like "can't make sense of comics" is an actual thing, though. Huh. I thought it was just my mum. I wonder how common it is? Just between my mum and the replies I've had there's like four people right there who have it or know someone with it, in what, a couple of hours since I said anything? Can't be too rare then. I wonder what it's called?

[noapologiesx.livejournal.com]

Frankly, it might also be a matter of just not growing up with them, so I'm not used to looking at them. I didn't even try reading comic books/graphic novels until I was 19 or so. Before that my only exposure was comic strips like Garfield, which obviously aren't the same. I have been reading books voraciously since I learned how to read though, and it's by far my favorite story medium. If I spent more time with comics it might start to make more sense, but because it's difficult for me I just haven't tried much, y'know? Or maybe it really is just my brain and the way I process things. WHO KNOWS.
oh, and I've never seen animated comics before, but I'm not sure how I'd feel about it. Hmm.

[kuromiko68.livejournal.com]

How's your dad's reading speed? A whole lot of TV and movies have closed captioning, and many tvs have the function (assumming you are in the US ^^;)

[kryss-labryn.livejournal.com]

In Canada, but we have it up here too :-)

He can read fine, but he says it's too small for him to be able to see properly. He's like 82, eh. I did suggest closed captioning and even tried it on him but it's too small and too fast. *Shrug* It doesn't seem to bother him; he mainly watched sports anyways, and he seems able to make out the scores okay, so he's good. ;-)