[ SECRET POST #2046 ]

[case]

⌈ Secret Post #2046 ⌋

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 021 secrets from Secret Submission Post #292.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ], [ 1 - spam secret ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[fscom]

General comments:

A very varied group of animals and a tiny spider today!

[joltymcjolterson]

Here's another themed post from another book for you today! Who can guess it this time? And if you can, then what do you think about the book that it's from?

Re: A very varied group of animals and a tiny spider today!

[joltymcjolterson]

cat


caterpillar


crocodile


dormouse


flamingo


guinea pig


hare


hedgehog


lion


rabbit


raven


sea unicorn









Someone asked me about happyface spiders, and I did actually feature them quite a while back! Won't be featuring them again- I'd like to but it'd be the same pics again. What I do have are some pictures of a baby jumping spider- remember the one from the other day? It's not the same one, but it's a lot like it- and instead of macros, here's what it looks like moving around.








If you really do want to see what this particular little one looked like up close, here's a link for you!

Drunk of Not?

[(Anonymous)]

Usual habit or just tonight, are you drunk or not?

Show off your favorite Sims! (As you'll assume, this here be image heavy.)

[elaminator]

There's been a lot of Sim secrets lately, so I thought this was a thing that needed to happen. Just as the title says, this thread is to show off your favorite Sims. Fandom related ones are especially welcome!


I have...a lot of Sims, so here goes.

From X-Men: First Class
Charles & Erik (with an appearance by their adopted daughter)


Hank McCoy


Teenage Raven


Armando & Alex


Sean & Moira


From (BBC) Sherlock
Sherlock & John (with surprise!Mrs. Hudson)


Irene & Kate


Mycroft & Anthea


Molly Hooper


Moriarty


Dark Knight Rises
Selina Kyle (I might be partial to her...just a bit. Appearances by Bruce Wayne & Sherlock!)


John Blake (with Gordon)


(And not directly DKR related, but what the hell) Barbara Gordon



Just a few more, I swear.

Fallout: New Vegas
Arcade Gannon & a male Courier


Boone & a female Courier


Last but not least, my love Kahlan (from Legend of the Seeker).

[anonymouslyyours]

Most of these secrets made me laugh today. Not sure why exactly but I had a good time reading them. Thanks anons!

F!S, rec/make me an icon please?

[agentcthulhu]

Yesterday, an Anon requested that I use an icon other than my default icon for secret transcriptions.

Seeing how I do not have any cute, neutral, panfandom/non-fandom icons, I would appreciate it very much if someone can point me in the directions of one or make me one. Something F!S related would be ideal.

Thank you very much!

dishonored

[dethtoll]

anyone else so excited for this they could shit?

i've been waiting for something to push my thief button and this looks to be exactly it, especially since info about thief 4 seems to be in short supply.

ps: it was hard as fucking hell to find anything that summed up thief's gameplay briefly so i just went with the intro movies from the trilogy... other than the assassination aspect (and the graphics obviously) the dishonored video is nearly identical to how thief plays.

Weird crossover pairings?

[(Anonymous)]

After stumbling through the Phineas and Ferb crossover section on FF.net, I got myself thinking "surely there's more than one person out there that ships improbable characters with one another."

So F!S, what are your weirdest rossover pairings you've encountered/shipped?

[murderershair.livejournal.com]

I'm trying to stop procrastinating and finish editing my resume so I can send in applications for work I'll actually get paid for... so when I'm done with that, does anyone have any lesbian!Ginny Weasley recs or plotty gen recs for Harry Potter characters in general (except maybe not Snape)?

What's the deal with Rhinox

[(Anonymous)]

So, I ran across an old comment thread from some Beast Wars fan complaining about some ficcer who was bashing a character called Rhinox. Then there was a long discussion that made no sense because I didn't know who the characters were, but Rhinox = douchebag seemed clear.

But then, like, two minutes later, I clicked into another old journal entry from another fan that was more about this other Beast Wars ship, but mentioned Rhinox and made it clear that he was a good guy.

I know not one single thing about Beast Wars, but now I suddenly want to know wtf is the right interpretation. Is he a douchebag or not?

I Have Hermione Hair

[(Anonymous)]

I have extremely thick hair that sits in poofs around my head, and would frizz very much if I didn't use a tiny bit of product after washing it. That's all I'm willing to do -- despite only washing it twice a week, it damages if you breathe on it. So I don't use curling irons or flat irons.

It's not wavy or curly but it's not straight either. It's just bushy and poofy.

My problem is that I can't find a haircut that works. I'm very petite and skinny with an oval face. My whole life I've wanted a Louise Brooks Bob, but it's can't possibly be achieved without a lot of product and daily styling, and I'm neither patient enough to style and nor will my hair cooperate.

I tried very short -- within two months it was a nightmare of foof going every which way, not to mention it took five years off my face and any tiny bit of sexiness I had. (I'm twenty-three. Being treated like a teenager? Not fun. Random strangers think they can lecture you when you accidentally knock a hanger to the ground at goodwill and don't immediately pick it up. Actual fifteen-year-olds on the bus sass you.) I went super super long when I was in my early teens and when I see videos of myself back then it's incredibly gross. It's like I'm wearing a hairy cape. Right now I do long layered bobs but my last one was a mess -- the guy who cut it didn't take nearly enough bulk out from the crown and it's rapidly becoming too heavy to wear up because it pulls on my hairline (and since he was so kind as to chop in so many layers at the bottom, it won't braid without falling apart immediately).

Any advice? It's a hot summer and I really need to cut it again but I don't even know what to ask for anymore.

Harry Potter fan artist Egyptian Mau (?)

[ginainthekingsroad]

Some years ago (2006 or so), there was a HP fanartist I liked who I think went by the handle Egyptian Mau or maybe just Mau. Most of her stuff was of Snape, and were generally either ink/watercolor or a bold black and white style inspired probably by Beardsley. I have 2 or 3 of her pieces printed out, so they have the URL at the bottom; they were hosted at yacht.zamok.net which doesn't seem to be active any more. Some of her art had text in Russian and may have been illustrations for some fics.

I *think* I originally found her page through Pirate Monkey's Snape links, but I just checked there and it's either not there any more or the link is dead.

Does anyone know if this artist still has a webpage, perhaps a deviantart?

Acronyms

[(Anonymous)]

So I was lurking around a kink meme earlier today, and it seemed like there were a lot of prompts asking for stuff with an original female character. The prompters kept using the acronym "OFC."

The problem?

I keep reading it as "Original Fucking Character," and I get this mental image of this really angry guy yelling "that's my original fucking character! Don't steal!" and it cracks me up.

Anyone else have any acronyms that while they know what it means, they can't help but read it as something different?

Technophile, are there more TDKR secrets coming tomorrow?

[(Anonymous)]

I was disappoint about the lack of TDKR secrets this week, then I realized that they were probably all spoileriffic so you were holding them off until Friday. Is this right, or is there just a depressing lack of TDKR secrets? I had soooooo much fun discussing the few secrets we got the week before!

(Also, do you want to be called case now? I've known you as technophile so long that's the name I think of).

roommate searching tips?

[(Anonymous)]

I've got meetings with three potential roommates this weekend. Any tips?

(it's a flat share, so everyone has their own room, what's the proper word for that?)

Is this problematic or not? (warning: mention of domestic abuse)

[(Anonymous)]

I'm writing a slash fic about two characters in a pretty abusive relationship. One character is NOT the villain — he's a dark!-ified version of a canon supporting protagonist (with a canon-compliant explanation for why he's dark!-ified in the first place).

But the thing is, I'm kind of writing them without the intent or message that the guy getting abused should get out. I'm kinda writing about how he'll take anything that gets dished out and still loves the abusive guy, and the abusive guy is meant to be sympathetic because the abuse is due to sci-fi-ish mental effects beyond his control.

However, my friend/sorta beta told me that what I was writing had unfortunate implications because I didn't make it clear that people who show this kind of behavior should be immediately dumped iRL, and was glorifying the act of letting your partner abuse you. And the thing is...well, the commenter is sort of right, I think, because it's supposed to be showing how the abused character will always stick by the abusive one no matter what and depicts him tenderly calming the abusive guy down after being hit and stuff and the abusive guy apologizing and then doing it again and all sorts of other stuff that would be problematic IRL.

But like I said — sci-fi-ish voodoo is partially the cause of the abuse so I don't think it's totally comparable to real life. I don't want to come off as a skeevy "true love means letting your partner abuse you" apologist in my fic, but making it all "you have to leave him for your own good" would really wreck the story. Also, I can't see the characters being that sensible.

So...what do you think I should do?

[(Anonymous)]

Would anyone happen to know any good fandom based feminist blogs? I used to read Go Make Me A Sandwich and am currently reading Gaming As Women and Feminist Frequency. Those can't be the only ones out there. Any recommendations would be welcome.

The most interesting cocktail you've ever invented/drank?

[lunabee34]

Jumping off the thread above about our sobriety, I thought I'd ask about the most unusual/interesting cocktails you've ever had. Recipes, please!

I don't usually drink a lot of liquor or mixed drinks, but I really like a gin and tonic with some bitters splashed in. My husband introduced me to amaretto in sweet iced tea (orange pekoe), and while that sounds weird and gross, it is seriously yum.

Classical Music recs

[(Anonymous)]

I'm looking for some classical music recs. Something that really makes you feel something be it anger, hope, love, lust, ANYTHING. Rec me some classical please.

How to deal with unwanted attention?

[(Anonymous)]

So at my work recently I had a customer give me their cell phone number and ask me if I'd like to go out on a date (which is really weird for me because I'm not very pretty or skinny or anything like that). So the problem is, I have social anxiety issues and I get uncomfortable talking to people I don't know well, plus I don't really like talking on the phone. I also don't really feel like I'd have much in common with this guy and I'm just in general not interested (I also identify as asexual and live in a rather conservative area where I feel like telling someone that is going to make them think I'm lying or weird). The problem is, this guy comes in fairly often and now I don't know how to interact with him without feeling terrible and awkward. I told him I'd 'think about it,' but nothing else. I don't really know what to say if he comes in again and brings it up. Any suggestions on how to handle this?

Looking for a song,,,

[(Anonymous)]

I listened to it a long time ago, and haven't been able to find it. If I remember correctly the singer had some sort of cancer/had overcome some sort of cancer. The video of it included masks, and other bits of broken things, and I think it ends with the singer on a piano. The singer was a woman, also.

WHAT IS YOUR THEME SONG ON FANDOMSECRETS?

[anonymouslyyours]

Mine is RUN-DMC - You Talk Too Much

Appropriate Y/Y?

Squee!

[straydog733]

Poparena is this reviewer on Youtube, and I enjoy his stuff quite a bit. He just finished up a review series of the Animorphs TV show, and he's 29 books into reviewing the full Animorphs series. Good, thoughtful reviews with some nice running gags and a real eye for continuity. He's done some other stuff, but the Ani reviews are my faves.

But he just started reviewing Alex Mack! I loved that show, and I can't wait to see how far he goes into this series!

http://www.youtube.com/user/poparena

Probably the coolest thing I've ever done.

[anonymouslyyours]

I just did a Toddlers & Tiara routine to Ramones, The - Cretin Hop (Rocket to Russia).

I blame the drunk or not anon.