[ SECRET POST #192 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #192 ⌋

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

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 05 pages, 105 secrets from Secret Submission Post #027.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 1 ] broken links, [ 1 2 ] not!secrets, [ 1 2 ] not!fandom, [ 1 ] repeat.
Next Secret Post: Tomorrow, Tuesday, July 17th, 2007.
Current Secret Submission Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[pretentioustfu.livejournal.com]

1: I totally believe everyone should have friends in both fandom and real life. That said, it can't happen all the time for some people, and also, fandom friends can definitely become real life friends.

2: Hmm, but what if you cosplayed a character who was overweight in canon? I'm wondering if I can get everything together to cosplay Hiro (from Heroes) or, if I can't pass as even a fictional male too well yet, Milly from Trigun. Both aren't exactly skinny.

13: I know what that's like.

14: Get over it. ^_^ I don't even have a blog crew, but if you're this annoyed over a userinfo graphic that really isn't that offensive, you kind of need to step back.

18: Generalizations suck. Everyone has a right to like what they want. I wouldn't go yelling American cartoons suck and so do their fans, since American cartoons and their fans don't bug me for existing, so can you show us the same courtesy? And dammit, I like serious plots and stuff that isn't kiddie appropriate on occasion. Which makes finding American animation I like pretty hard, because most of the mature-themed stuff is comedy. >_<

19: We're in your fandoms, being your dudes. ^_^

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Yeah, idealistically, everyone would easily be able to make friends offline. That's why it makes me sad when people who have them ignore them. =(

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[pretentioustfu.livejournal.com]

Idealistically, yeah, but sometimes it doesn't work out. I think it's good to have both friends online and offline, and to not reject one group for the other or consider one lesser and the other better.

One of the major problems, IMO, is a misunderstanding of the word "friend." For as much as everyone gripes that LJ "friends" aren't true friends and how dare they use that word to describe one's reading list (which isn't true for me, I *do* have some true friends on here), it's just as easy to have "fake friends" in real life as well. The usual advice for making RL friends, in fact (e.g. "become prettier/more handsome, make more money, don't be too different") is, ironically, the best way of attracting completely false or "only here to take advantage of what you can give me" friends.

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[kinneas.livejournal.com]

Idealistically. I'm a HUGE proponent of making moar friends offline than on, and tend to think most of the people spouting, "BUT EVERYONE HERE SUCKS" are complete idiots, and even I know there are situations that prevent the making of IRL buddies.

For instance, I have a friend whose parents emotional abuse through control is so strong that she can't leave the house except for school, which is obviously not ideal for maintaining any sort of legitimate friendship.

So yeah =\

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[pretentioustfu.livejournal.com]

*nods and agrees with you*