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fandomsecrets2012-01-20 07:34 pm
case) wrote in fandomsecrets2012-01-20 07:34 pm
[ SECRET POST #1844 ]
⌈ Secret Post #1844 ⌋
Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.
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02. [broken]
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[Venture Bros]
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[Benedict Cumberbatch]
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[Dungeons of Dredmor]
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[One Direction]
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[ASoIaF]
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[That Guy With The Glasses]
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[The Black Jewels Series]
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[Les Miserables]
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[Doug Walker/That Guy With The Glasses]
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[Tripping Over You]
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[Supernatural]
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[Todd Klein]
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[Bakuman]
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[Dragon Age 2]
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[VVVVVV]
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[Sherlock Holmes]
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[House M.D]
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[Charmed]
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[Farscape]
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[Miss A and Wonder Girls]
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[Pepsi Man]
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[the hunger games / lady gaga]
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[Friends]
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[Star Trek: TNG]
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[Anno 1790]
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[Happy Endings]
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[Doctor Who]
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[The Muppets 2011]
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[Hetalia]
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[Dune]
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[Bravestarr]
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[Dreamstone]
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[ ----- SPOILERY SECRETS AHEAD ----- ]
39. [SPOILERS for Pottermore]
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40. [SPOILERS for something not specified]
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41. [SPOILERS for Berserk]
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[ ----- TRIGGERY SECRETS AHEAD ----- ]
42. [TRIGGER WARNING for incest, shota]
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43. [TRIGGER WARNING for rape]
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44. [TRIGGER WARNING for rape]
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45. [TRIGGER WARNING for rape]
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46. [TRIGGER WARNING for suicide]
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47. [TRIGGER WARNING for dub-con, domestic abuse, BDSM]
[House]
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Notes:
Secrets Left to Post: 00 pages, 000 secrets from Secret Submission Post #263.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 1 2 - broken links ], [ 1 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.
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(Anonymous) 2012-01-22 09:58 pm (UTC)(link)And this 'media bullshit' you speak of, where does it come from? Is it created in a vacuum? Does it grow on trees or sprout from the earth? No, it comes from people. Fiction, stories and a form of communication and expression. They are people talking to other people about people. About the world we live in. About the things we feel. Even the cheapest soaps or the most far-out scifi do this. It's stories about us, and most human beings are naturally drawn to stories. We create narratives out of our lives. We have rituals that work as climaxes. There are beginnings and endings and in-betweens.
When a person is connecting with a work of fiction, they are connecting with the people who've created it, the people long before who've told similar stories, who have created tropes and character types, given words meanings and most importantly, they are connecting themselves. We have this incredible ability to feel empathy that words on a page can make us cry and laugh and feel. We can sympathise with people we don't know (like many people in this thread), people who existed centuries ago and people who never existed at all. We cannot read the minds of those around us, and so when you're deep in the dumps, the effort it would take to find out their thoughts and feelings can feel overwhelming. But you can open a book or turn on the tv and find someone showing, feeling, living, and you might find that they think like you, feel like you, experience the same kind of things that you do. That someone somewhere thought similarly. What fiction tells us is that we are not alone even when the people around us are ignorant or insensitive to our suffering.
I'm happy you have another way to cope, but yes, your superiority over it being the only right way is off-putting and callous. Such small simple things can make life worth living. Even when it seems like you're all alone.