[ SECRET POST #1989 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #1989 ⌋

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

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 048 secrets from Secret Submission Post #284.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 1 - not!fandom ], [ 1 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[fscom]

18. http://i.imgur.com/cnXxV.png

[(Anonymous)]

That's...really sad. :(

[(Anonymous)]

I can kind of feel you. From one big sister to another, we have to accept it. But...

I don't want my 12 year old brother to know what Princess Molestia is. DDDDDD:

The worst part is thought that he's less secretive towards our parents (my fandom life was pretty much my biggest secret) and indeed wants to share fandom with them, and I feel so embarrassed. When I was his age, I kindly asked everybody to leave the room so that I could watch Ranma 1/2, always afraid that someone might enter. My grandmother once asked me if I was watching porn.

It kind of sucks to be so much older than your younger sibling. It turns into a semi-parental relationship.

[(Anonymous)]

haha, I'm the same way...whenever I'm watching my show I like to do it in the privacy of my own room, and if someone comes in I always pause it right away. XD Fandom is a big secret from my parent for me.

[majorshipper]

I'm in the same boat; I do NOT want my brother to reveal fandom to my family, and since he's a bit lacking in the common sense department, he just might. So I don't share any of my secrets with him.

[with-rainfall.livejournal.com]

I kindly asked everybody to leave the room so that I could watch Ranma 1/2, always afraid that someone might enter. My grandmother once asked me if I was watching porn.

Ahahaha XD
I'm 20 and my fandom life is still a secret from my parents. >.> Largely because they wouldn't understand fandom, let alone smutty fanfic.

[(Anonymous)]

Why gross? What were you reading at that age, incest or beastiality or something?

[(Anonymous)]

Not OP, but I read a ton of badly written yaoi porn at that age. The kind of things that are awesome when you're 11 can be cringeworthy when you're an adult, even if they're not disgusting by adult fandom standards. It can be more like a flood of epithets and forced seme/uke roles and purple prose until you hate younger you for ever thinking that stuff was hot.

[(Anonymous)]

That's sad. :( Especially because I have an awesome big sister myself, and though we're not into the same fandom, we still squee over things, and chat about stuff. It's awesome! (She knows what kind of things I read, too, but I'm 16, so it's not such a big deal. ;3)

[thene]

My elder sister got me into fandom. We rec each other porn sometimes. This has never seemed like a big deal to me. While her age is obviously a factor in your case, a) I don't think you turned out too bad, b) where/when else is she going to learn about this stuff?

[elaminator]

This makes me sorta glad I don't have a younger sibling. In a way it must be cool to have a family member you share interests with because you're less likely to not be able to find a topic of discussion, and then there's the bonding that can take place with that sort of thing. But...to think of them possibly reading graphic fanfic, looking at pornographic fanart and the like... lets just say your reaction is understandable.

It's sort of like regular porn; plenty of people look at it (family included), but you don't want to know that for certain.

[with-rainfall.livejournal.com]

Yes, this! I really would feel uncomfortable discussing fandom with my sister (I don't know if she's even in fandom, but if she were), especially because my own reading tastes were so vanilla until I was 17, and she's younger than that. *shudder* If I knew she were reading porn or RPF or something, I'd never look at her the same way again. XD

Maybe in a couple of years?

[majorshipper]

IA.

[anonymouslyyours]

This is really weird for me because the second my sister was into fandom she inherited my rather large cache of fic, fanart and icons. (I did stagger some of the more adult material)

My sister actually started fangirling pretty early. One day when she was eleven I saw her in the living room zooming in on some kpop boybander's teeth and exclaiming "His teeth are so word!" and I knew it was time.

/her first ship was Stefon/Seth Meyers and I was sitting next to her all *proud.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't read much fanfic, but I do read a lot of BL manga. My younger sister and I rec stuff to eachother. (although we are in our 20s/30s now, we weren't when we started)

[(Anonymous)]

As a younger sibling myself, I...don't really sympathize with you. Kind of bothered with the fact that you keep calling it gross that she's into fandom. So it was perfectly okay for you to read/look at questionable things at that age, but not her? Sure I can understand that the thought is a bit mortifying. But she's going to grow up, and she's going to get curious about that stuff. Tell her that you'd rather not talk about fandom with her if you must, but for god's sake don't call her weird or gross for being into it.

[(Anonymous)]

this is so odd to me. why is it gross? is there something you're leaving out?

i have a younger sister and i got her into BL. i gave her all of my manga and while she never got into fandom, i had no problem with her reading sexually explicit material and with squeeing over pairings with her. i mean...we're both girls, close generation. i feel like i'm missing something in your secret.

[otakugal15]

My brother and I have been in fandom for years. He's 6 years my junior and I'll talk fandom with him. He knows I read smut fic. Hell, my first "smut" fic, ever (wasn't really smut on rereads. fade to black, but at 12 it was "smutty") was Pokemon MASTER. I talked about it so much. He ended up reading about the same age I was when I found it.

*shrug*

He doesn't read fic much anymore, he's more on the gamer side of things than I am, but...I wouldn't find it gross. Plus, he's 18 now anyway, so....I can't say yay or nay anyway.

But yeah, like the first comment, I find that utterly sad. :/

[velvet_mace]

We are a lot more protective of our loved ones than we are of ourselves. The urge to coddle younger siblings is in the genetic code. Without that we'd kill and eat them.

[countess_k]

This secret...I'm not really sure what it's about. It sounds like OP has a lot of issues and jumbled them all in one secret.

If the problem is that you can't fangirl with your sister because of shame/nostalgia/projection/hypocrisy (I can't really tell) don't worry. Nobody says you should. In my RL I barely know anyone who is into fandom and they are all nice, decent people. You don't have to be into stuff she's into, whatever the reason.

[(Anonymous)]

If I have children, I'm going to be a lot more strict about internet access than my parents were. That's for sure.

[diet_poison]

idk, I don't really mind my sister being into some of the same fandom-y stuff as I am (I'm 21 and she's 14). And she's WAY less innocent than I was at her age! But maybe that's part of the reason why. She's already seen/heard a lot more than I did at 14, probably because she's the youngest and also not as weird of a kid as I was in middle school (I was fairly isolated socially; she was not).

And it's not like I don't care about her - I really do, and I can be very protective of her. I guess I just see those things as inevitable, and her choice, and she's mature enough to handle what she sees. And I often enjoy them too. Neither of us are into, like, hardcore porn, but stuff like lots of language, dirty jokes, innuendos, gore...yeah. That shit was largely not even on my radar when I was her age, or if it was, I avoided it like the plague.

I guess I also like having something I can bond with her over as well. =) And I don't have a squick reaction like OP and some other people, and I'm not trying to belittle that at all (squicks are squicks). This is just the way I see it, and I think it is a positive thing for our relationship.

[(Anonymous)]

Are you me? I'm 23 now, and have two sisters ages 13 and 15, who are both into fandom. I'm...mostly okay with it, but about a year ago I found the older one's fanfiction.net account and she was writing some sort of Danny Phantom torture porn thing and freaked out.

[omorka]

Eh. My whole family's geeky in one way or another, so finding out my little sister wrote and read fanfic was no biggie for me; I think she was more embarrassed about it, and that was only after I got into a discussion on her Facebook wall with one of her friends over Pottershipping. On the other hand, she was already in high school at the time, so maybe it's different if they're really young still. Anyway, hope you can get over it, OP, because she's probably not going to change for the sake of your squick.

[atalantapendrag]

I'm guessing by the "walked in on" that you're still pretty young, too, OP? College-age or so? Wouldn't you be able to just share age-appropriate stuff with her? It seems like a wonderful way to bond with a loved one.