[ SECRET POST #2010 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2010 ⌋

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

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[Panic! at the Disco/One Direction]


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03.
[Mad Men]


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04.
[My Princess]


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05.
[Questionable Content]


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06.
[NCIS]


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07.
[Okami]


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08.
[la brigade chimérique]


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09.
[Ally McBeal]


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[SS Omega]


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[Final Fantasy XIII]


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12.
[A Song of Ice and Fire]


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13.
[Heroes]


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14.
[Salma Hayek and Cote De Pablo]


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15.
[True Love, "Holly's Class"]


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[Star Trek TNG]


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17.
[Final Fantasy VII Crisis Core]


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18.
[Katawa Shoujo]


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19.
[US Women's Gymnastics]


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[Legend of Korra]


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 042 secrets from Secret Submission Post #287.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ], [ 1 2 - posted twice ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[khronos_keeper]

:D Glad you enjoyed it.

>What culture is this, anyways? I tried to look up "small farming" but I'm not really getting anything from a specific subculture, I think.

Well, for me this is rural Northeast dairy farming. Unfortunately, AFAIK there's been little to no study or documentation done on us, unless you're a Mennonite or Amish. I learned this the hard way, when I was in college, and the majority of my social sciences/anthropology professors waxed poetic about all sorts of cultures, but turned their noses up at the "hicks and rednecks" that lived around them. 8/

[(Anonymous)]

Dude, I'm an anthropologist and I would love to do a cultural study on your culture based on your descriptions. Familiarity breeds contempt, I guess. :/

[khronos_keeper]

Wow, I'm actually quite flattered that people are interested! I would love to have someone take a stab at experiencing the culture, rather than judging it for a change.

[(Anonymous)]

You lot are a little pushy when you're students in desperate need of a "fascinating" culture to do a long-term study on. Not in a rude way, more in a "okay, personal space please and thank you" way. I know none of them mean any harm. But my culture isn't supposed to reveal things to outsiders, not even the names of other family members, really. I couldn't tell them about any of our traditions, or beliefs. I think I was a great disappointment when all I would say is "Why do you think I have an arranged marriage? Why would I marry a cousin?" (I was genuinely confused) :(

Personally, I think more studies should be done on the farming communities. Not a lot of people get to live like that anymore, and they don't have restrictions on talking.

[rabidsamfan]

Well, that's one of my questions answered!

Maybe you should take some sociology courses and do a study on the dominant culture from your point of view. (I'm only half serious -- but I do think you'd make some fascinating observations.) You know why the restrictions on talking are there in you culture, but understanding the approaches of sociology (and how it's broken down a lot of stereotypes of other cultures) might give you some ideas about whether or not the restrictions on talking are contributing to the persistence of the stereotypes. You should also check out any books you can locate on your culture to see how accurate/inaccurate they are, so you can see what anyone who is genuinely trying to do their best when dealing with your culture already knows.

[khronos_keeper]

>I think I was a great disappointment when all I would say is "Why do you think I have an arranged marriage? Why would I marry a cousin?"

Ah man, the misconceptions. Now, I'm definitely no expert at all in your culture, but in these rural parts, we do get travellers, too. I think that a LOT of people conflate Romany, gypsies, and travellers. From what I've gathered, it's way more complex than what most people assume (which is just all itinerant folk = gypsies).

Most people in inter-urban, suburban areas, and middle class people have never come into contact with any sort of traveling folk before, so they just have these weird ass misconceptions.

Same way most people think I have like... chickens and pigs and goats and sheep along with my cows. And have lots of time to lounge in the fields. Or something.

The travelers that come round to these parts ask to clean out people's attics so they can sell the antiques that have been up there since they were new. XD

Or run scams on little old people by offering to "repave their driveway" and instead run black paint over it. :(

Which, I gotta say, is enterprising.

[(Anonymous)]

THE ATTICS!

Do you know who gets stuck on those jobs? Small people who can navigate spaces well.

I hate attics. They're hot and cramped and the air tastes like sawdust. And all that stuff is heavy. Plus, you end up with some homeowner standing over you, lecturing you about how to lift the weird bird statue they somehow got up here. Where does someone even get a statue of an egret? Why would you have one? And you would be shocked how many people actually have valuable antiques in their attics and basements. And they don't want them! They'd rather we take them than sell them on eBay.

You'd be surprised how many people think we have farm animals. People are weird. And when would a farmer have time to lounge? Does no one realize how much work running a farm is? Whenever we got hired out, we were there from sunup to sundown, and there was no shortage of chores on those places.

I developed a distaste for beef after being around cows for a day. (One mercifully short day where it was discovered I was better with people than farms) Those eyes were so sad! I couldn't bear the idea of them being slaughtered. (They were dairy cows though)

[khronos_keeper]

>Do you know who gets stuck on those jobs? Small people who can navigate spaces well.


Ahahhaha! Sucks to be you, dude. :D Also ahahah statue of an egret-- it sounds like some of the crazy rich people who live by the lake. They'd have shit like that.

>And you would be shocked how many people actually have valuable antiques in their attics and basements.

Man, I know. You should see the shit in my attic-- there's stuff from my great-grandparents that could go for some serious cash. The most recent find was an original photo-booklet from Japan from before WWI depicting traditional village life. It was given to my great-grandparents, who were missionaries in China, who them gave it to their grandchild. Weeeird shit man.

>I couldn't bear the idea of them being slaughtered.

So are mine. I still cry (much to my parents' consternation) whenever we send a cow off with the local hauling trucker. :< They get sold at auction for slaughter, since we don't do it ourselves. But it's like sending away a pet for me, since I raise them from birth. The ones who don't get sick or injured can live a long time. Our oldest cow I believe was something like 14 or 15 years old. :3

Cows have the biggest, sweetest eyes, for sure. In Greek mythology, the mother goddess Hera is described as having heifer eyes, so apparently people of all times and places thought so, too.

[(Anonymous)]

It did suck to be me. There was a good bundle of money to be made though, so off we went. And sometimes there were really nifty things, like that photograph book. We found a whole thing of sealed up clothes from the twenties in one place, and I'm talking full outfits. Dresses, the stockings, the shoes, the hair pieces, the jewelry. Someone had put them away together very carefully. We showed the owners, thinking geez, has to be heirloom quality, right? Lady says "Oh, just take them." I even tried to explain their sentimental value, because I felt bad, but she didn't care. We sold them to a place that rents vintage clothing to theater companies. We made a few thousand.

Old photographs are pretty common though. We found so much stuff people thought they had lost (photos of grandparents, jewelry, toys).

Then there was the time me and my cousin opened this great big wardrobe to find a hundred porcelain puppet/dolls/whatever hanging inside. That scared the hell out of the both of us. They were antiques, and valuable, but we were scared to be alone with them. Thankfully, the owner was all "They were my great-aunt's, oh, they're so lovely." And we just left them there.

The worst attic ever though, we moved these boxes, and out from behind them came a colony of roaches. Like, Roachageddon. They were everywhere. Thankfully, my cousin was temping for an exterminator in the community.

I didn't know that about Hera, but it makes sense. The cows were like big dogs, and so sweet. The next day, I thought I was going back, and my cousins were like "Nu-uh, Miss Bleeding Heart. We have to kill chickens today, you might cry." (Somebody got a stink bomb in their caravan for that)

That damn bird statue.

[(Anonymous)]

Does no one realize how much work running a farm is?

Not really, no.