[ SECRET POST #196 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #196 ⌋

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

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Secrets Left to Post: 00 pages, 000 secrets from Secret Submission Post #028.
Secrets Not Posted: 0 broken links, 0 not!secrets, [ 1 2 ] not!fandom, [ 1 ] personal attack.
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Comments

[klytaemnestra.livejournal.com]

2. I know, right? I used to love Reno when I first played the game but slowly I began to loathe him because he turned into something he was not in the game. Reno's not a whore, he's not going to let people rape and abuse him -- for the love of God he is a Turk. Who the fuck would try to rape a Turk and expect to live? I hate what fandom did to Reno. They turned him into a perverted idiot or a rape victim, or a whore and he's always stupid and childish acting or a sex fiend.

5. You're a werewolf? Yes. Are you fucking serious? Yes, that too.

15. I hate that. I love religious imagery mainly of the Catholic persuasion but I will only use it in art where the character would be seen with a rosary. I hate how wearing a cross makes you Goth or something. I wear a Jerusalem cross and a St Jude medallion on a chain every day of my life but that's because of my religion and partly because of my historical obsessions. Of course, the average person doesn't even know what the cross I'm wearing even is. I cringe every time I see some little anime Goth boi on dA wearing a spiked collar with a cross. It's a symbol of my faith and I don't really appreciate vampire wannabes and stupid Goths turning it into something it's not and how so many artists do use it to make something edgy. You don't see them using the Star of David or the Crescent and the Star or any other religious symbol.

18. I think your problem is the same problem I have with porn in general. I like the emotional connection in yaoi, however random fucking between two actors is just unappealing to me. I'll watch gay porn but I get a lot more out of yaoi, shounen-ai and just hinted implications. I find kissing of hands and sucking on fingers and such far more appealing than someone giving head because it's just somehow sexier to me. I've seen some nice gay porn in the past, but it was actually two men having very intimate sex on a sofa with some nice kissing and such. And I've seen some really bad gay porn ... which I won't get into here. Lol. Really, for me yaoi is all about the emotional connections between two men and the snogging. Sex is nice, but I'd rather have to men touching and talking and just being close on an intimate level without all the gratuitous fake sex.

20. You sound like a sad little person, actually.

[rmarques.livejournal.com]

15. Truth of the matter is, crosses pre-date christianity. Even in the very begining of the cultural development of man, could we find crosses. In Japan crosses were also used for something pretty similar to the crucifiction. Someone using a cross on a character, it may not be just for the "goth" effect, but it may also be to represent suffering, sacrifice, or even just a cultural reference. Remember, the cross may remind christians of Jesus, however, to many people, it may just remind them of the suffering caused by a barbaric act of execution.
You know, the way the cross is seen is somewhat similar to, say, the swastica. It's now known as a Nazi symbol, however, the Indus used it way before the Nazis came along. And the Buddhists also used similar (if not identical) symbols on maps, to indicate the presence of a buddhist temple in that location.