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[ SECRET POST #198 ]

⌈ Secret Post #198 ⌋

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1. If I'm supposed to feel guilty for agreeing with this, I don't. I always seem to assume that when people hate something I love, it's because they didn't give it a real chance.

5. Yeah... Not alone. I hate 'netspeak' and emoticons, and all that garbage too. I won't say I necessarily think less of a person, or want them out of my fandom/life/whatever... but for the love of everything holy, it drives me up a wall to see people degrade themselves in such a manner.
Yes, I think it's immature and makes people look less intelligent, yes it gets on my nerves when my friends say or do it to me - and I wish I knew a polite way to make that point-
but I like to think... To each their own?

6. What the flying fuck?

8. Seen it happen to the best.

12. Because Wiccan Vegan Hippies are narrow-minded too?
Seriously. People that preach about narrow-minded jerks are just as narrow-minded most of the time. I don't care what your sexuality/political stand/religion is - if we have fun together, what's the big deal?
Hypocrites piss me off, and it's human nature to be a damn hypocrite.

13. I love my own characters too. Otherwise, why create them?

14. I can't post without a beta, but yes... The fear of plagarism, when I have the balls to think I wrote anything -worth- stealing is intense.

15. Wow, I'm the exact opposite of you. Offline friends, what?

16. Although not on the FF front... I can relate to the whole "when I'm depressed I watch/read something depressing to cry harder." What Dreams May Come, FTW.

18. I can only imagine the wank and discussions this will/has caused.
But I know the feeling.
I hate posting sad shit on my journal, because I don't want people thinking I'm looking for attention or sympathy. I don't want people to think I'm lying, and it -really- sucks when you have something you want to share or get off your chest, and can't....
Newsflash people: Livejournal is not a -journal- it's a way to communicate with friends.
Most people don't post anything private in it, anymore, anyway.

So, yes, I feel you entirely and I'm sorry that anyone would have to go through that.

19. I don't, and I have.

21. Yeah... I wish that about a few pairings myself, and even though I'm not in the particular fandom, from what I've seen of it- I think I understand where you're coming from.

I've been out of FMA fandom for a while, but alchemist_elite was an elitist fanworks community when I was around the fandom (I'm not sure if they're still active). Most of the fandom BNFs were in it. I'm sure most people in the community didn't intend to be negative, but the entire idea of using a test to determine whether or not you were worthy of being a part of the comm seems very clique-ish and exclusive to me now. Why should my merit as a fan be determined by someone else? The whole attitude isn't just found there, though, you can see it all throughout the fandom. It's the main reason I left.

Yeah... Luckily for me I'd never heard of it. Though you've seemed to sum it up quite nicely. I've never really gotten the definition of a BNF, though I understand generally what it means-

From what I know, the popular writers are fairly nice and all-around accepting, but I don't tend to read any of their work anyway. I'm really only in any FMA-fandom-relations via RP. Wank free and drama-safe (at least, for now) RPs, that is.

It's so depressing, isn't it? XD;; I feel lame every time I do it.

...I also watch the end of Moulin Rougue when I want a good cry. Oh god, so sad.

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16: OP