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F!S Anon Meme (the Seventh, and now on DW!)

Secrets, rants, opinions, anything you want to say about your fandom or a fandom or fandom in general, do it here! Anonymously, of course. Get it all off your chest.

Some ground rules:
1. Going anon is encouraged but not absolutely required (for those who struggle with captchas and stuff).
2. No autoplaying/autolooping embeds, or embeds that cover/stretch the screen.
3. No dropping personal info or IRL contact info, etc.

That's about it, though!

I'll be linking some general/general-fandom threads I see so people don't repost new threads with the same stuff.

Unpopular Ships
Obligatory Masturbation Thread
Fandoms you wish existed
How old are you?
What series have you always meant to watch/read/play/etc. but have never?
Time and location
Female-centric works
How do you feel about Tumblr?
Pet thread
Guilty pleasure thread
Favorite old shows
First fandom?

Comments

Re: Ghost stories and Personal experiences.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm Southeast Asian and where my parents come from (I grew up in the US), the majority of the belief is "shaman". Just basically, we believe the spirits of the dead are always around us.

When I was around 4, some close family friends had a very sick daughter. She was probably no more than 7 when she lost her battle to leukemia, and her younger sister, who was 5, became [i]very[/i] sick and began seeing spirits all around her. It was pretty scary, because we'd be over at their apartment, and she'd sit up from sleeping on the couch and start crying. She'd tell us she sees a "monster" standing in the corner. Eventually, her parents had her name changed, and she got better. *in our beliefs, there is the idea that if you are plagued with bad luck, meaning the spirit world is closer to you than most other people, the only way to reverse it is to change your name; that way when people call you by your new name the spirits around will think you as another person and not bother you*
To this day, she can be very paranoid when things go bump in the night, or tell us she has "creepy vibes" when she's in certain places.

Also, when I was 16, my family moved from a fairly good sized suburban city just 15 minutes away from the down town area to a super tiny (less than 1000 people living there at the time) farming town in the middle of nowhere that was getting in on the new developmental residential sub-divisions. As a teen, I stayed home alone a lot on weekends since I hated going to my parents' family friends' houses. For the first two months I swore that something was fucking with me, because I'd have the tv on a certain channel, and for any reason I leave the living room, when I come back it'd be to another channel. At first, I thought I was just being forgetful, but after a week I purposely would say, "OK, I'm watching channel 4," before going to the bathroom and come back to see that the channel had changed.
My grandma lives on the other side of the country, so when she came to visit and see the new house she blessed it. Grandma's a shaman priest, or knows a lot about the practices at the very least, even though she goes to church and believes in Jesus.

Re: Ghost stories and Personal experiences.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm Romanian,and we have the same belief.If one of the kids of a big family got sick,the family would give him/her to another big family(or sometimes to a widow with 3 or more children) to rename him/her,then "buy" the kid back.I don't really know how,because this is something my grandma told me.