[ SECRET POST #198 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #198 ⌋

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

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 06 pages, 143 secrets from Secret Submission Post #029.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 1 ] broken links, [ 1 2 ] not!secrets, [ 1 2 ] not!fandom, [ 1 ] personal attack.
Next Secret Post: Tomorrow, Monday, July 23rd, 2007.
Current Secret Submission Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

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[ex-pinkocrac87.livejournal.com]

I've had friendships end - end badly, break up an entire fandom inner circle - because fo politics. Looking back, I wish politics had never entered the equation, but the truth is, speaking as "vegan wiccan hippie" (yes, even if you meant it for humorous intent, they are out there), I see how my ilk are intimidated by conservatives. I don't like to impose my radical views on the rest of the world (though any radical will see any other political side's most moderate beliefs as another radical thought...chew on that), but it's far easier where I live to go out and say you're a flag-pajamaed gun-toting Bible thumper than to proclaim you're a vegan wiccan hippie lesbian. I would get killed, most likely. Seriously. So...on the internet, you can imagine, those of us who are now in the minority (just as much as true, non-radical conservative Christians are in the minority, bless you all for being cool) try to find a place to convene on the internet if we don't have the option of being in a college town or a forward-thinking society with groups and concerts and rallies. It's hard out here fo' a pimp.

Still, IAWTS on a lot of levels. I want my friends back. I even tried to play moderator, but was basically forced in that situation to choose between my politics and my friends. I don't even know what would happen if I met them, IRL, again. We used to see each other at conventions often. I haven't seen them since. I know they think less of me for not being able to quell the drama and for choosing to stand by what I believed rather than by our friendship (LAWLS ALL NAKAMA INC. PEOPLE WILL TOTALLY KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT HERE, BUT YOU GUYS ARE FEW AND FAR BETWEEN. <3)

It's just plain tiring and I say take it outside if you're not gonna "squee".